All Property Week articles in 08 February 2008 – Page 2
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Investors expect deeper rate cuts
Investors are predicting interest rates will fall to 4.5% by the end of the year after the Bank of England yesterday announced a quarter-point rate cut, its second in nine weeks. Financial Times
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Rock debt forced onto public books
The Government may yet avoid nationalising Northern Rock but the stricken bank officially became a public sector company yesterday, breaking one of the Treasury's key rules on borrowing in the process. Finanial Times, The Times, The Independent, Daily Telegraph
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Pressure rises on Livingstone
The row over London Development Agency grants deepened yesterday when hundreds of e-mails, financial records and internal documents were released to the London Assembly. Financial Times
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Jones in non-dom warning
Digby Jones, the trade and investment minister, has warned that plans for a tax crackdown on non-domiciled foreigners living in the UK threaten London’s role as a world finance centre. Financial Times
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NewsVictoria-under-Way
Hutley Investments’ proposals for Victoria Way, Woking’s largest development for 20 years, received planning consent this week.
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Private party
Contrary to opinion, the buy-to-let sector is highly geared and not fragmented, says Jacqui Daly
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Insight
Qinetiq 'scandal' MPs overlook MOD property sales - Military manoeuvres
While the Public Accounts Committee rages over the sale of the Ministry of Defence’s research division, its property assets have given the taxpayer better value.
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LandSecs tackles London problems
Developer issues £10m lawsuit and reduces height of Victoria scheme
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Rapleys wins in Milton Keynes
Rapleys has won the instruction to manage the property portfolio of the Parks Trust, an independent charity responsible for Milton Keynes’ parks and open spaces.
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Professional
Inside parliament
The Government is consulting on proposals to cut down the number of planning applications that are referred for possible call-in by the secretary of state.
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Speymill sells Macau homes
Speymill Macau Property Company, the AIM-listed investment company focused on Macau, has sold its interest in 243 residential units at its Lot U scheme on the former colony for HK$906.5m (£59m) to an undisclosed local buyer.
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ProfessionalHistoric yields
Question: What is the relationship between the ‘historic yield’ referred to by quoted property companies and the actual yield that I can expect as an investor?
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Historic victory for Maltese at London’s Metropole hotel
Dubai, Maltese and Libyan consortium beats Stanhope, Ballymore and Exemplar
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Markets
High rents are pushing office tenants out of London’s Mayfair - Pack up your troubles
Extortionate rents and a lack of good-quality space are pushing office occupiers out of Mayfair.
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Ruddy Hell
What is the name of the Australian Prime Minister? That is the question that could have won Atisreal planning director John Walton’s brother £50,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? last weekend.
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Industry mourns passing of ‘shining light’ Ross Goobey
Owen, Freeman and Carrafiell pay tribute to property legend. Laura Chesters reports
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InsightGoodman goes live
Property Week’s Giles Barrie flew to Sydney to spend the morning with Greg Goodman, as the global industrial property mogul hit back at his critics with a new finance deal and prepared to headline at ‘Sheds’
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Rib Shack goes to Knightsbridge
US restaurant chain Chicago Rib Shack has moved into the Knightsbridge building belonging to Asif Aziz’s investment company Criterion Capital after the previous restaurant went into liquidation.
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NewsSummer Row gets go-ahead
Secretary of state Hazel Blears this week gave Wolverhampton City Council the go-ahead to compulsorily purchase 775,000 sq ft to the south of the city centre for Multi Development’s £300m Summer Row.
