All Property Week articles in 05 April 2012 – Page 4
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Insight
Broken Home of Cricket: the ongoing row over development at Lord’s
It is arguably London’s most lucrative ransom strip, and certainly its best known.
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News
Italian plimsoll brand plans London expansion
Italian plimsoll brand Superga is planning to expand across London on prime high streets.
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News
Early bird England’s elevator entrapment
Faulty technology. It is the perennial headache of the hard worker, and few in property work harder than Mark England, the Stakhanovite chief executive of BNP Paribas Real Estate.
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Professional
Developers face electricity bill shock
Spiralling energy costs alongside soaring demand for office space means London faces a crisis that could render some new developments unviable.
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News
Philips offloads campus in Netherlands’ biggest property sale
Electronics group Philips has sold its high-tech campus (pictured) in Eindhoven for €425m in the Netherlands’ biggest single-asset property transaction.
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Markets
Topland beds down in hotel market
Cash-rich group adds to portfolio and hopes to invest further. Rachel Hunter reports
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News
Orlebar Brown's beach party
British beachwear brand Orlebar Brown has taken a flagship store in London’s West End (pictured, right).
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News
Topland buys Bath hotel
Topland Group has bought the Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath from the Von Essen portfolio for around £19m after the Livingstone brothers pulled out of the sale.
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News
Royal Bank seeks Welcome Breaks
The Royal Bank of Scotland is poised to take control of a portfolio of motorway service station properties from Robert Tchenguiz.
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Insight
Planning in balance
Sir, The NPPF strikes a good balance between reassuring those who were concerned the previous draft spelled the end of the English countryside and the widely acknowledged need to radically reboot the planning system.
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News
Meanwhile, back at the rave
Property Week’s Site Life campaign has yielded some fabulous new temporary attractions in London and Manchester, not least a Victorian-style “Pleasure Garden” in the capital’s Royal Docks.
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Markets
Mantis awards Nigeria five stars
South Africa-based luxury hotel owner-operator Mantis is expanding its brand globally by developing three boutique hotels in Nigeria
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News
Kwoks arrested in Hong Kong
The billionaire brothers who run Hong Kong’s largest property company were arrested last week in connection with a corruption investigation.
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Professional
Architectural interest
What makes a successful developer-architect? Sarah Stewart reports from 2012’s Young Norwood event
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Markets
New venture hopes to bridge apartment-hotel gap
Bridgepoint Ventures aims to roll out apart-hotel concept across Europe. Rachel Hunter reports
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Markets
‘Frustrating and annoying’ NewBuy scheme falls flat
Lenders and housebuilders shun homebuying initiative. James Whitmore reports
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Markets
‘Frustrating and annoying’ NewBuy scheme falls flat
Lenders and housebuilders shun homebuying initiative. James Whitmore reports
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News
Prince Andrew over and out
It may be almost a year since Prince Andrew stood down as UK trade envoy, but the Duke of York is still shaking hands and enjoying the odd free lunch.
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Professional
Landlords’ ultimate weapon against tenants could be muzzled
Government could shackle bailiffs’ powers. Sarah Townsend reports
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Professional
Landlords’ ultimate weapon against tenants could be muzzled
Government could shackle bailiffs’ powers. Sarah Townsend reports