All Property Week articles in 09 March 2007 – Page 3
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Markets
Harcourt Developments
Harcourt Developments has received planning permission for its 400,000 sq ft (37,160 sq m) redevelopment of its Portlaoise Shopping Centre from Laois County Council. The €150m (£101m) scheme in the midlands of Ireland has 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) of existing retail anchored by Tesco . Harcourt will also ...
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MarketsDevelopers missing a trick on sale of utility pipes
1,000-home schemes could be giving away up to £1m to utility companies
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News
US derivatives
Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have been granted three-year licences to trade US commercial property derivatives, a potential move in the development of the embryonic market.
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ProfessionalDefining project management
Question: What is the difference between project management, project coordination and employer’s agent roles?
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ProfessionalGreen-letter day
Legislation is laid before parliament this month to force energy labelling of buildings.
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News
New dawn fades
Great Portland Estates was the shining light in a dismal opening two months for the nine companies that converted to REITs on 1 January.
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News
EA Shaw retail head joins CWM
Tony Moore, head of retail at EA Shaw, is to join rival CWM. It is the fifth significant capture for CWM after four investment agents joined from Chase & Partners.
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Insight
New strategies for a cooling market
Peel chairman John Whittaker’s monument to 1990s shopping, the Trafford Centre, sits in one direction.
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Insight
Consumer rights needed
Sir, Mike Slade is right: property cannot be a one-way street (analysis + opinion, 16.02.07). This is why it is time to drag it into the 21st century by creating ‘consumer rights’.
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News
Lending conditions toughest yet
lending conditions in the commercial property market are the toughest for seven years.
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News
Morrisons U-turns on southern store closures
Supermarket reverses plan to shut outlets in Caterham, Shepherd’s Bush and Wimbledon
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News
Developer Citygrove
Developer Citygrove is to develop a leisure scheme funded by St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Haverhill, Suffolk. Citygrove’s five-screen multiplex and restaurant complex, City View, is prelet to Cineworld. Frankie & Benny’s has signed up for a restaurant. Citygrove expects to open the scheme for spring 2008.
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News
City View: Jenny Davey
The commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market is so 2006. In 2007 the hot topic for property financiers is collateralised debt obligations or CDOs.
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News
Swansea city
Swansea city centre is to undergo a £1bn overhaul following the creation of a masterplan to link the city with its waterfront. Development will start with schemes at St David’s, Paxton Street and Sail Bridge Square, and the project is expected to take 15 to 20 years.
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News
Hotel investors ‘will check out of UK and into Europe’
Private equity groups are set to pour further money into the hotel sector in continental Europe, but the UK hotel investment market could lose out, according to US private equity group Blackstone and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund (MSREF).
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News
CBRE cries fowl
Mike Prentice, CB Richard Ellis’s retail development director, is everything he’s cracked up to be he has 47 hens in his back garden.
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News
Castlemore to spec large Glasgow office scheme
Castlemore has bought a key car park site in Glasgow for Scotland’s largest speculative city centre office schemes.
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ProfessionalCase news
Warren Gordon looks at a boundary dispute that led to legal costs of £260,000, while Jonathan Ross reports on an architect’s battle with a lawyer over a deal that went sour
