All Property Week articles in 09 March 2007 – Page 2
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Markets
School lotteries threaten sustainable housing
Sustainable housing may be the first casualty of government proposals to allow education authorities to use lotteries to prevent middle-class children dominating the best secondary schools.
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MarketsWorking from home
William Ewart is ramping up development in its home city of Belfast with five schemes in the pipeline a sure sign of the market’s recovery.
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News
Square pegs in a REIT hole
Pubs, serviced offices and self-storage companies want to become REITs but uncertainty about their tax treatment is putting them off.
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MarketsHistory in the remaking
Dublin’s General Post office, scene of the Easter Rising in 1916, could be the gateway to an ambitious redevelopment of the northern retail quarter.
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News
Notting Hill trusts in Hammersmith’s Metro
The Notting Hill Housing Trust is poised to sign one of the biggest lettings in Hammersmith, west London, for two years.
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News
Unite graduates in housing venture
Unite Group, the student accommodation developer, has set up a new venture targeting graduates in London.
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News
Reading’s Goodacre is RICS president in waiting
The RICS has lined up Peter Goodacre, former principal at Reading University’s College of Estate Management, as its president next year.
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Markets
Quinlan to fund Treasury’s Montevetro
Company to forward-fund 50% office scheme in Dublin’s Barrow Street
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News
The Murphy Family
The Murphy Family, a North Carolinan development company, is selling a 6.7 acre (2.7 ha) ‘condo-hotel’ resort development site on Great Exuma Island near George Town in the Bahamas for more than $40m (£20m). Cushman & Wakefield in Houston advises the vendor.
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News
Walkie Talkie faces green inquiry
English Heritage has attacked the environmental credentials of the Land Securities ‘Walkie Talkie’ tower in the City of London on the first day of the public inquiry into the development.
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MarketsEuropean Resolution
A UK developer is leading the charge into residential investment on the continent.
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News
ING Real Estate
ING Real Estate is in advanced talks to sell a stake in its £450m Northgate Quarter development in Chester to Irish investor Warren Private Clients and an unnamed Canadian company. ING is looking to raise £125m in equity, but will retain a 20% interest. The 11.3 acre (4.6 ha) site ...
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Insight
Sheffield’s Empty legacy
The Olympic Delivery Authority must avoid a repeat of Sheffield’s 1991 World Student Games.
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Professional
JLL wins Grosvenor retail valuation mandate from DTZ
Jones Lang LaSalle has replaced DTZ as the valuer for Grosvenor’s shopping centre fund.
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News
Irish syndicate Draco & Dory
Irish syndicate Draco & Dory has bought Brettenham House in London’s Lancaster Gate for £89.25m from US fund manager Westbrook – a net initial yield of 5.4%. CB Richard Ellis acted for Westbrook; Savills acted for the buyer.
