All Property Week articles in 1 October 1999
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Insight
The seed of prosperity is well-sown in the south-east
The South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA) is one of the largest and most influential of the eight RDAs. Its remit is enormous, covering an area larger than Denmark, with a population of 8 million. SEEDA which has its principal office, with 130 staff, in Guildford ...
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Professional
Prime your property for sale
The illiquidity factor has made property transactions and the role of the portfolio manager increasingly challenging.
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Professional
Please please me
Surveyors and consultants must be aware that their clients will measure satisfaction in terms of end results and quality of service rather than technical content.
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News
Petchey raises Saville stakes
Roger Carey, chief executive of Saville Gordon Estates, returned from holiday this week to find that Jack Petchey had increased his stake in the company to more than 20%. The news will not have cheered Carey, since Petchey has proved this year to be the scourge of many small ...
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Markets
Planning pains
Office development in Cambridge city centre is at a virtual standstill. Big space requirements cannot be catered for. Stephen Killick talks to local agents and discovers what they can offer to occupiers moving to Cambridge
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Professional
The rural land price paradox
Farmland prices are up, despite the continuing cycle of misery within the agricultural industry, reports Ralph Crathorne.
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News
Lynton ponders investor offer
Investors are to get the chance to buy into the rest of BAA Lynton s portfolio after the firm this week offered stakes in its £200m of hotels. baa Lynton, which manages airport operator BAA s estate across the UK, is planning other partnerships and joint ventures outside ...
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Markets
Ploughing in investment
Strong Ipswich investment market overshadowed by doubt over major occupiers.
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Insight
Local heroes or local zeros?
Six months after their launch, Labour s Regional Development Agencies are finally going public with their masterplans for reinvigorating regional economies. But, in the first of a two-part series, Lucy Benyon finds that property may be the one part that the agencies cannot reach, especially in the south of England
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News
Heathrow rents likely to rise
Office rents in the Heathrow area will continue to rise as demand outstrips supply, agent Lambert Smith Hampton said this week. The firm s Heathrow market review, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, warns that likely tenants could opt for other centres around Europe due to the continuing lack of ...
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News
Gummer warns Wal-Mart over the need for high standards
Former Environment Secretary John Gummer last week promised to monitor closely all planning applications made by giant US retailer Wal-Mart. Gummer was keynote speaker at the British Council of Out-of-Town Retail conference in London last Thursday. He told 360 delegates to the pressure group's conference that if Wal-Mart, which bought ...
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News
Green light for Warrington site
One of the country s largest strategic sites got the Green light for development last week when a vital access road won approval. The 45,000 sq m (470,000 sq ft) Omega site off the M62 at Warrington finally got the go-ahead when the government agreed to the ...
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News
New force to police RDAs
The government is to set up a powerful body to police competitive regions scrabbling for inward investment. The move, expected to be announced next month, was sparked by concerns that the eight Regional Development Agencies, the Welsh Development Agency and Scottish Enterprise are competing against each other for overseas ...
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Professional
Stretching the envelope
Active cladding systems can reduce energy costs, greenhouse emissions and improve the environment. Organisers have got to grips with the principles involved, so should surveyors
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Professional
Out-of-hours service ensures favourite status
Guildford-based agent Kingston’s has a textbook example of how good client care can nurture an unpromising client instruction into a mutually-beneficial relationship.Pharmaceutical company Scotia Holdings first approached the four-person firm in 1993 to enquire about a local building it was letting. Impressed with Kingston’s service, Scotia instructed the firm ...
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News
Firms eager for older surveyors
Employers are falling over themselves for surveyors with four years experience, say recruitment specialists. The recruitment freeze during the recession of the early 1990s has resulted in a huge gap in today s workforce, which could prove one of the harshest lessons the property industry ...
