All Property Week articles in 04 December 2009 – Page 9
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DTZ Echinox: CEE Industrial and Logistics
"In 2009 the Romanian logistics real estate sector can be described as a prudent market from both the developer’s and the logistic companies’ perspective most of whom put on hold their expansion plans for the moment."
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Green policy comes up short in cutting carbon emissions
Green building conference delegates hear that UK needs sixfold increase in emission cuts
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Car sales decline, but it’s a healthy state for repairs
While the Society of Motor Traders and Manufacturers reported that year-on-year car sales were down 12.3% in October, auto repairers have been picking up the slack
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People Moves: GE Capital Real Estate, Santander and more
Lastest property appointments - 4 December 2009
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Guernsey operation offers timeshare with buy-to-let twist
Safe Haven investment vehicle combines sun-belt villas with northern flats
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Enstar buys Texas self-store loan note
Uk-based Enstar Capital has bought a loan note for $7.8m from Capmark Bank at a discount of around 32% to the face value
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Buttering up
Herefordshire Council has asked the Royal Institute of British Architects to organise a competition to find an architect to come up with fresh ideas for Hereford’s Buttermarket, in High Town
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Chancerygate Business Centres move
Following its restructuring earlier in the year (news, Property Week 05.06.09), Chancerygate Business Centres has relocated to Mayfair’s Hay’s Mews in London ’s West End .
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Dubai’s woes show a market built on sand
As Sultan bin Sulayem gunned his speedboat towards the building site in the sea, this correspondent was happy to bask in the glory of a reasonable-sized scoop. Back in 2002 (Property Week‘s International supplement, 30.11.02), we were one of the first magazines to go on a tour of the epic ...
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Mercian starts course of building at Topaz
Work began last month on offices for the Mercian Surgical Supply Company (above), after it bought the freehold of 12 acres at Topaz business park near Bromsgrove
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Brent buys Folio hotel chain
Akkeron Group, the company formed last year by James Brent, the former global head of real estate and lodging at Citigroup, has created a regional hotel group with the acquisition of the Folio hotel business
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BPF’s pre-Budget wish list
The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has set out a wish list for next week’s pre-Budget report. It has also sent a letter to chancellor Alistair Darling, asking him to look again at empty rates reform. The federation is calling for tax-increment financing (TIF) to fund infrastructure for ...
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Wilson Bowden mulls over Leamington mall
Wilson Bowden is in discussions with Warwick District Council about redeveloping the Chandos Street car park, Leamington Spa, into a shopping centre
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Town and gowns’ book club
The citizens of Worcester and students at the University of Worcester will be the first community in Europe to share a library. Galliford Try is about to start development on Castle Street, Worcester, of the £60m library and history centre.
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Public bodies can speak much louder with one voice, says the OGC's Mike Burt
The Operational Efficiency Programme report and Budget in April gave the public sector that rarest of opportunities: permission to talk to one another. This is key to good public sector asset management and was an important theme at the Asset Management 09 conference in London last week.While talking to one ...
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New director on ex-Kilmartin Bloc
Development company Bloc, which recently bought itself out of Kilmartin, has appointed a non-executive director and opened a new office in Cork Street, Mayfair
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House price blip warning
London and the south-east have led a strong recovery for UK house prices over the last six to eight months and average house price growth for 2009 could reach 5% by the year-end
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Henderson and USS in retail park bet
Henderson Global Investors and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) have agreed an innovative retail warehouse trade-off
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Berkeley’s MD is in ‘buy’ mode
Rob Perrins is spearheading a London land grab in anticipation of the next cycle
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Below-the-belt introduction
At CB Richard Ellis’s customary lunch at last month’s BCSC conference, David Kenningham, the firm’s executive director of retail, was introduced as Nikolay Kenningham in homage to his likeness to giant Russian boxer Nikolay Valuev