All Property Week articles in 06 June 2008 – Page 4

  • Squaring up: Legal & General and Metrovacesa reworked their deal on Walbrook Square to avoid going to court
    Professional

    The great escape

    06 June 2008

    Falling property prices mean that buyers want to escape contracts, while sellers are trying to make them stick. Richard Crossfield explains the legal tactics for both sides

  • Markets

    Tutti Frutti en route

    06 June 2008

    Urban Splash has secured planning permission for the first phase of Tutti Frutti, its self-build scheme in New Islington, Manchester.

  • Markets

    Sale of Edinburgh Exchange site

    06 June 2008

    The City of Edinburgh Council and the Elementary Property Company have put their development site at Torphichen Street in Edinburgh’s Exchange district up for sale.

  • News

    LandSecs green light at Ebbsfleet

    06 June 2008

    Land Securities has been granted full planning permission from Dartford Borough Council for a 2.6m sq ft mixed-use scheme at Ebbsfleet International train station.

  • News

    Shaftesbury signs Massimo Dutti

    06 June 2008

    Shaftesbury has signed up Spanish clothing brand Massimo Dutti at 125/126 Long Acre in Covent Garden, part of its 2 acre island site owned jointly with the Mercers’ Company.

  • News

    Toy shop Hamleys to open in Dundrum

    06 June 2008

    Toy shop Hamleys is to open its first standalone store since being bought by Baugur, in Dundrum town centre, Ireland.

  • Newfound friend: McGivern will invest £1m in the firm
    News

    McGivern drafted in to revive Newfound

    06 June 2008

    Former Multiplex UK chief executive to help resort developer

  • Markets

    Down but not in distress

    06 June 2008

    Surveyors report house price fall but still no evidence of distressed selling.

  • News

    St Katharine Docks dishes up

    06 June 2008

    The current phase of improvements to St Katharine Docks on the north bank of the Thames in London has reached completion.

  • News

    DevSecs and Morley strike oil at PaddingtonCentral

    06 June 2008

    Development Securities and Morley are in talks to let 55,000 sq ft in Paddington, west London – the first office letting at the PaddingtonCentral development since the onset of the credit crunch.

  • News

    DevSecs and Morley strike oil at PaddingtonCentral

    06 June 2008

    Development Securities and Morley are in talks to let 55,000 sq ft in Paddington, west London – the first office letting at the PaddingtonCentral development since the onset of the credit crunch.

  • Enterprise onus: while stressing the appeal of Maxim’s amenities, Tritax admits that spec development is risky
    Markets

    Max deductible

    06 June 2008

    Tax breaks are helping to make a giant M8 speculative office scheme viable.

  • Online

    Valad cuts two staff at Teesland IDG

    06 June 2008

    Australian developer agrees departures as result of development downturn

  • News

    John Laing trumps Trillium in Croydon

    06 June 2008

    Contractor picked for four council sites in £450m partnership set-up

  • Suitable case: English Partnerships is preparing to lower its expectations for the sale of a 205 acre site in Coulsdon
    Insight

    Critical condition

    06 June 2008

    Property sales at inflated values have been the NHS’s life support machine. Now the credit crunch is switching it off.

  • News

    Grosvenor man’s coal trail

    06 June 2008

    Alan Somerville, projects director at Grosvenor, has left to become managing director of Scottish Resources Group Estates, the property arm of the second-largest coal provider in the UK.

  • Online

    Dubai’s DP World closes in on Gazeley

    06 June 2008

    Government vehicle set to pay £300m-plus for sheds developer

  • Insight

    Clarifications

    06 June 2008

    In the feature, The crown prince of ProLogis (Sheds supplement, 23.05.08), it was stated that ProLogis developed the UK’s first carbon neutral warehouse for Marks & Spencer.

  • Watt’s up: GVA Grimley’s Keith Aitken has gained ‘fantastic expertise’ in the shape  of Alison Taylor and her firm, Alan Watt
    Markets

    Clanning for succession

    06 June 2008

    Big league firms have been swallowing small specialists in a spate of takeovers in the Scottish agency scene.

  • Insight

    ‘Fraud’ of inexpert claims

    06 June 2008

    Sir, I was surprised at some of the statements in Dilapidations’ fault lines (Property Week, 16.05.08) that portrayed dilapidations claims as rife with ‘fraud’.