All Property Week articles in 07 August 2009 – Page 3
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Schroder Property relocates its German business
Schroder Property Investment Management is relocating its German property business from Wiesbaden to Frankfurt in Germany.
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Deka Immobilien buys in Lyon
Deka Immobilien has bought the office building ‘Le Triangle Part-Dieu’ in Lyon for its Deka-S Property Fund No 1.
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Northampton plans to become a 'market city'
Northampton has unveiled its bid to grow from a town into a ‘market city’ the same size as Cardiff or Leicester.
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Centro attacked over tenant complaints
Centro has been forced to field questions from its joint venture partners and retailers about its capability as a shopping centre manager after reports that the landlord is refusing to carry out basic repairs.
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Dubai names board for $20bn emergency fund
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai has appointed two men to run the new fund distributing $20bn (Dh73.46bn) in emergency funds to government-related companies.
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Starwood raises $810m
Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Property Trust raised $810m in an initial public offering.
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Movie legend's Baltic home for sale
Ingmar Bergman’s estate on a wind-swept island in the Baltic Sea is up for sale, complete with a private cinema, an outdoor pool and an ambience that helped the Swedish director explore the dark side of the human condition.
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Morgan set for $1bn property sales
JP Morgan Chase is planning to sell 23 office buildings across the US in what may be the US’s largest real estate transaction of the year.
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Grants to boost ailing high streets
Some of Britain’s poorest town centres will be offered a smattering of grants today to help fill buildings left unwanted and boarded up in the recession.
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RBS in multimillion fit-out of new offices
Royal Bank of Scotland has spent millions of pounds fitting out state-of-the-art offices in Central London for thousands of its staff.
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Brookfield raises £2.4bn
Brookfield Asset Management, the American property investor said that it has raised $4bn (£2.4bn) to invest in underperforming real estate in North America, Europe, Australasia and Asia.
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Balfour Beatty looks to go global
Revenue from Balfour Beatty’s overseas operations is expected to overtake that from the UK within the next three years according to Ian Tyler, chief executive.
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Deeper Irish property loan write-downs feared
A court decision to appoint a liquidator to one of Ireland’s leading developers has raised concerns that the country’s banks could be hit by deeper property loan write-downs.
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Grainger sales rise
The London-listed residential property group, based in Newcastle, said that house prices have stabilised and sales have risen in the past four months. It added that it had sold homes worth a total of £169 million in the ten months to the end of July.
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Stockland to sell UK assets as its posts A$1.8bn loss
Australian and UK property company Stockland has said it will exit the UK as market conditions ‘remain difficult’.
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Affordable housing in rural areas to be protected
Housing Minister Ian Austin has unveiled provisions to protect first time buyers’ access to purchasing affordable rural homes in newly designated ‘protected areas’
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Mike Slade wins Rolex Fastnet Race for second year running
Mike Slade’s ICAP Leopard yacht secured a second consecutive victory in the 608-mile Rolex Fastnet Race in the early hours of this morning.
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Clas Ohlson signs in Reading and Kingston
Listed Swedish retail company Clas Ohlson has signed leases for two stores in Reading and Kingston taking its total number of UK stores to four.
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New Concert Hall in Birmingham to open in 2012
Planning permission has been granted to develop a 450-seat concert hall on the University of Birmingham’s campus.
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HMV plans art-house cinema at Wimbledon store
HMV has got planning consent for an art-house cinema, café and bar above its store in Wimbledon in London.