All Property Week articles in 09 September 2005 – Page 4
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MoD’s Chelsea Barracks put on market
London’s Chelsea Barracks is to be put up for sale, ending a failed eight-year PFI process.
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Brixton flies on back of Industrious success
Industrial specialist silences critics with 10% NAV rise
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RICS to overhaul APC interview system
The RICS plans to reform the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC), the two-year programme that leads to chartered status for graduates. Two papers will be presented to the RICS’s UK Practice Qualifications Group in the next six months with the aim of bringing uniformity to the APC’s 90-minute final ...
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Join the party but beware of investing alone
Investing in property has become far more complicated than it used to be, says William Hill
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Markets
Family allowance
Housebuilders in Reading are among the first in the country to address the problem of a shortage of family homes.
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Property Alliance Group
Property Alliance Group is to sell the Pinnacle in Manchester to Legal & General for £16m at a yield of 5.7%. The building achieved the city’s highest office rent: Investec pays £34.50/sq ft (£371.35/sq m). The Pinnacle is also to become the Manchester base for Cushman & Wakefield Healey ...
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Vaughan stumps agent with brolly choice
When Michael Vaughan’s benefit match between a Yorkshire XI and a World XI at Headingley was washed out last week, the sell-out crowd of more than 15,000 cricket fans went home disappointed, except for a party of staff from Jones Lang LaSalle’s Leeds office.
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Professional
BBC invites building bids after Trillium departure
The BBC is tendering for suppliers for construction projects across its UK property portfolio following the withdrawal of Land Securities Trillium from an outsourcing deal.The broadcaster has published two notices in the Official Journal of the European Union for suppliers to ‘provide leadership, design management, commercial control and delivery of ...
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ING appoints trio of advisers
Dutch bank ING has appointed CB Richard Ellis, Colliers CRE and DTZ to advise on its 27m sq ft (2.5m sq m) European occupational property portfolio.
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Professional
Professional advice
This week, construction disputes, lease renewal and securing prelets
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Knight Frank and Abbey launch resi investment plan
Bond-style product aims to take advantage of returns in residential market
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Cala sells £9m Oxon retail shed to Irish investor
Cala Properties has sold a retail warehouse investment in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to a private Irish investor for £9.1m. The 37,000 sq ft (3,437 sq m) warehouse on Southern Road, which Cala acquired with joint venture partner Bank of Scotland in 2003, is let to DIY retailer B&Q on a ...
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Henderson targets Italian mall for €750m fund
Investor in talks to buy sixth McArthurGlen outlet mall after raising ¤216m of equity
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Derwent NAV up 9.5%
Derwent Valley Holdings, the central London office specialist, achieved a strong 9.5% increase in net asset value in the first half of the year.
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Grosvenor teams up for €250m return to French offices
Grosvenor is returning to the French office investment market through a joint venture with Europe’s largest pension fund.
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Mould kicks off £200m venture capital business
Arlington and Pillar founder launches vehicle to back new developers
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Savills’ shares soar 16% after half-year results
Savills’s shares rose 16% to A record high of 849p on Wednesday after the company revealed a strong set of half-year results.
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Cheval amasses £130m purchases
Cheval Properties, the property fund manager, has stepped up its acquisitions programme with a £130m trio of purchases
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US REIT Liberty signs £100m Doughty Hanson tie-up
UK private equity firm on board after buying 80% interest in Kent business park
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Aussie bank Macquarie sets up £1bn fund with Akeler
Duo plan to convert joint venture to real estate investment trust next year