All Property Week articles in 1 July 2011 – Page 2
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ProfessionalShining a light on feed-in-tariff schemes
Leasing your property’s roof could bring in rent and cheap energy, but is fraught with difficulties
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ProfessionalMary Poppins fall was not pub’s fault
The High Court in Newcastle has found pub operator JD Wetherspoon was not liable for a customer who seriously injured herself while imitating Mary Poppins
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MarketsWPP puts its public face forward
As if to taunt the property directors who advocated less space or no space at all, Max Holliday, WPP’s director of real estate, presented a variety of enticing offices inhabited by WPP’s media, advertising and PR companies, including Maxus, VML and Cohn Wolfe. In the Westbourne Terrace office, ...
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ProfessionalShow us the evidence and we will explain our reasons for valuation, says Paul Sanderson
In an article last month, Jerry Schurder commented on the Valuation Office Agency’s approach to dealing with rating appeals
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News
Union starts Euro mall fund
Fund manager Union Investment has launched a shopping centre property fund
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NewsRussia’s Etalon makes St Peterburg plan
Etalon Group, Russia’s first developer to float since the financial crisis, has bought a 5.2 acre site in the Moskovsky district of St Petersburg, where it plans a 540,000 sq ft mass-market housing project. The residential developer is to develop a multi-storey housing complex with parking, 2 km from Pulkovo ...
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News
Fundraising for Real Estate Investors
Real Estate Investors, the West Midlands-based property group, is aiming raise £14.7m of new equity from a sale of shares to fund its acquisition programme
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MarketsTake two … private equity food operators hungry for sites
Wagamama and Patisserie Valerie are two of several food and drink chains going through a growth spurt, nurtured by private equity owners
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MarketsWales follows England‘s lead on planning shake-up
Last month, the new Welsh planning minister John Griffiths indicated Wales was to follow England and introduce a presumption in favour of sustainable development
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News
Metric measures up Durham site
Metric Property Investments has conditionally exchanged on the purchase of a 4 acre retail redevelopment site in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, for £11m. Jones Lang LaSalle advised Metric.
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MarketsDevelopers hope for Olympic gold
The 2012 Olympics is acting as a spotlight for nearly all London’s speculative office development and developers were determined to impress the conference audience with the possibilities
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ProfessionalDegree of uncertainty hits student housing
The pressure is on universities to find the right formula for investment
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Insight
In defence of localism …
Sir, It’s a fundamental misreading of the Localism Bill to think it’s a vehicle for nimbyism. It creates frameworks to get involved in planning, and all the language makes clear that those frameworks are only for “positive engagement” in the planning process.I’m often cynical about spin and government, but this ...
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ProfessionalKnives are out for localism at Welbeck Land’s debate
It was billed as a debate about whether the government’s localism agenda could deliver enough new homes
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MarketsCycle park-gym hybrid has West End in a spin
Reef Estates founder sets up H2bikerun to provide facilities for London’s cyclists
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News
Peterborough park set for conversion
Aberdeen asset’s switch to fashion centre begins with Marks Spencer deal
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News
Conran on Marks in Stratford
Marks Spencer’s tie-up with Sir Terence Conran will be launched at the opening of its 136,000 sq ft anchor store at Westfield Stratford City on 13 September
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Insight
Communities and Local Government responds …
Sir, Top-down targets put numbers on paper but not homes on the ground. They were, in fact, little more than box-ticking exercises to appease bureaucrats in Whitehall, and left the country with the lowest rate of peacetime housebuilding since 1924.This government has taken swift and bold action to get Britain ...
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MarketsSouth Wales office market ship comes in
Admiral takes 100,000 sq ft in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport
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MarketsWarning siren sounds as Trump comes to town
Fear pervades Aberdeenshire as golf course owner Donald Trump arrives
