All Property Week articles in 07 August 2009 – Page 9

  • Online

    DTZ in Shell deal

    2009-08-07T07:47:00Z

    DTZ has been awarded a contract by Shell International Petroleum to manage at 5,000 retail sites in 11 countries across North America and Asia Pacific.

  • Online

    Will Alsop quits practice

    2009-08-07T07:46:00Z

    Will Alsop has announced that he is quitting the profession to spend more time painting as building work becomes increasingly scarce during the recession.

  • Online

    MPC move raises recovery doubts

    2009-08-07T07:44:00Z

    Fresh doubts about the strength of the economic recovery emerged yesterday after the Bank of England’s rate-setting committee surprised markets by voting to pump an extra £50bn into the economy.

  • Start me up: MEPC rents its Milton Park Innovation Centre to start-ups
    Markets

    Situations vacant

    07 August 2009

    With 12.8m sq ft of space waiting to be let across UK business parks, developers are learning that flexibility is the key to survival

  • News

    PWC: Rock sale 'could take years'

    07 August 2009

    PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to appoint an asset manager for Paul Kemsley’s Rock Investment assets, after the company went into administration in May

  • News

    New Street Sq store for Today only

    07 August 2009

    Convenience store concept Today has taken 1,100 sq ft at Land Securities’ New Street Square scheme in London’s Holborn on a 10-year lease at £50,000 a year

  • The Queen has opened the new wing of the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset
    Professional

    The Queen opens new wing of Tank Museum

    07 August 2009

    The Queen has opened the new wing of the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, which has just undergone a £16.5m redevelopment

  • Boat houses: Bilton and Hitchcox build to order at the Lakes, and top-end homes can go for more than £3m
    Markets

    Lake Superior

    07 August 2009

    Developers Anton Bilton and John Hitchcox take Erik Brown on a tour of their Cotswolds scheme that is defying the downturn

  • Turner and hooch: ironman mixed with dawn clubbers
    News

    Hot iron

    07 August 2009

    Building surveyor Mike Turner has just returned to England from sunny Lanzarote. But he has not been relaxing on a beach.

  • Horse brass: Simmons still needs help raising funds
    News

    The ride of her life

    07 August 2009

    This week at work I have been looking at pictures of a scantily clad woman with a horse

  • Insight

    Glass, gray and guts

    07 August 2009

    Summer reading

  • Pop pickers: download the reports from Great Portland’s website and get spotting
    News

    Peskin's gotta get a message to you

    07 August 2009

    Richard Peskin, the former chairman of Great Portland Estates, is known for his great intellect

  • News

    Frogmore plans Oxford Street makeover

    07 August 2009

    Frogmore is planning a redevelopment at the east end of London’s Oxford Street to attract better retailers

  • News

    Protego to the Fore in Taunton

    07 August 2009

    Protego Real Estate Investors has bought Rockspring’s 26-27 Fore Street in Taunton, Somerset, for £5.6m at a net initial yield of 6.9%. Among the tenants the property is let to are HMV, Vodafone and O2

  • Insight

    RICS: Members have final say

    07 August 2009

    Sir, The first stage of the RICS’s consultation about a possible accreditation or registration scheme for valuers has now been completed. More than 800 responses have been received, both for and against, from valuers and other parties

  • Giles Barrie
    Insight

    RICS needs to feel members' pain

    07 August 2009

    Three news stories grab the eye this week – and we will leave it to you to decide if they are related or not

  • News

    Prime industrial yields fall as investors return to market

    07 August 2009

    Cushman & Wakefield research also reveals spikes in retail shed and London office sectors

  • Markets

    The harder they fall

    07 August 2009

    Boom-time peaks have contributed to the severe drop in West Midlands values

  • News

    Gerald Eve predicts 'W'-shaped recovery

    07 August 2009

    Gerald Eve has downgraded its forecasts for property returns and predicted a ‘W’-shaped recovery for the market

  • News

    Shell picks DTZ

    07 August 2009

    Shell International Petroleum has selected DTZ to undertake property management services at around 5,000 retail sites in 11 countries across North America and Asia-Pacific.