All Property Week articles in 10 December 2004
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Online
Westminster slams 50% affordable housing requirement
Westminster City Council has branded deputy prime minister John Prescott’s decision to impose a 50% affordable housing requirement on developments in the area as ‘astonishing and inconsistent’.
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Clydesdale picks Central Exchange for Glasgow flagship
Clydesdale Bank today announced it had selected Glasgow’s Central Exchange building as the site of its new multimillion pound flagship Financial Solutions Centre.
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News
W for ‘whacky’
I have received a marketing brochure from Knight Frank,complete with a tongue-in-cheek A-Z of reasons why the new occupier solutions team, headed by Howard Woollaston and Bradley Baker, is so good.
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MarketsAt your service?
Tenants hold the key to the success of London’s business improvement districts – the US-style local management schemes.
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MarketsRipe for relocation
After the Dublin rag trade’s success at Fashion City, fruit and veg wholesalers are pinning their hopes on an out-of-town move to ‘Fruit City’.
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InsightThe wizard of Oz
In the last two weeks, Australian contractor and developer Multiplex has stunned the UK with its aggressive expansion. Chief executive Andrew Roberts talks to James Whitmore about his plans
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Stirring the market
Sir, Dixons chief executive John Clare’s attack on the property industry, upward-only rent reviews, developers, landlords and architects (news, 5 November, p5) was in my view exaggerated to get the market talking, or so I hope.
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InsightThese shoes were made for stalking
As Jack Petchey builds a stake in the late Arnold Ziff’s shoes group, Stylo, Laura Chesters investigates the continuing attraction of retail businesses for property’s bargain-hunters
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NewsMagnier and McManus snap up Manchesters Kendals
Irish horseracing duo spend £60m on city’s biggest department store
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Hammerson takes WestQuay
Hammerson has become the sole owner of the WestQuay shopping centre in Southampton, having bought Barclays' 50% stake for £203m.
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MarketsHelmsley and Terrace Groups start with Hudson Quay
The Helmsley Group and Terrace Hill Group have kick-started the mixed-use regeneration of 200 acres (81 ha) in the Tees Valley with a 30,700 sq ft (2,850 sq m) office building.
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A two-fingered salute to FSA insurance regulation
Full marks to the hundreds of property managers who have declined to sign up to the Financial Services Authority’s daft attempt to regulate the general insurance market.
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A French lesson: retail is at the heart of our urban renaissance
I love MAPIC. Not so much for Cannes’ winter sunshine and the sharp-suited European men, but for the energy and vitality of ideas.
