All Property Week articles in 11 April 2003 – Page 3

  • News

    Quintain buys Wembley warehouse

    11 April 2003

    Quintain has increased its ownership of a huge development site at Wembley in north-west London.

  • News

    Golfrate buys Sherlock Holmes Hotel

    11 April 2003

    Private property company Golfrate has bought the Sherlock Holmes Hotel on London's Baker Street from Lydford Estates for £12.6m. The deal reflects a net initial yield of 4.6% off a rent of £613,000 a year, rising to a reversionary yield of 6.65% in September 2005. CB Hillier Parker ...

  • News

    L&G sells small properties to private buyers

    11 April 2003

    Legal & General sold £27m of tenanted shops at Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker's auction on 3 April, when all but one of the 42 lots offered were sold into the private market.

  • News

    Tenants get chance to buy their floors

    11 April 2003

    Dorrington Properties calculates purchase price in multi-owned buildings

  • Insight

    Brown's mixed message

    11 April 2003

    Everyone in business was rightly worried by this budget. Higher taxes on companies were supposed to be an easy way to raise money to pay for the war in Iraq. The landlords appear to have got off lightly while the occupiers have been hammered.

  • News

    Brown hits tenants with lease duty rise

    11 April 2003

    Chancellor set to raise £200m a year from Stamp Duty reorganisation

  • News

    Breakthrough in Bracknell

    11 April 2003

    Green light for £500m scheme as Allied London sells land to Legal & General and Schroders

  • News

    Manc boom continues

    11 April 2003

    Manchester's city centre residential development boom continued when less than a quarter of an acre sold for about £1.75m before Allsop & Co's residential auction started on 31 March.

  • News

    Government bodies could leave London

    11 April 2003

    The government is setting up a study into the feasibility of relocating government departments to the regions.

  • News

    Chesterton chief furious at board's sale talks

    11 April 2003

    Rift emerges after takeover talks start with 11% shareholder Mohammed Jafari-Fini

  • Markets

    Profile: Mr Blue Sky

    11 April 2003

    Birmingham City Council's economic development director Paul Spooner has far-reaching and ambitious aims for the city. As we find out, enthusiasm and a positive outlook are the keys to success

  • Markets

    Talk of the towns: Birmingham

    11 April 2003

    Merger talks ... business suits swapped for wet suits ... ski break ... what happens to the Rotunda?

  • News

    Birmingham

    11 April 2003

  • News

    London Partnership wins BIDs contract

    11 April 2003

    The Central London Partnership (CLP), chaired by ex-Chesterton chief executive Lorraine Baldry, has won a contract to set up a network of business improvement districts across London for the London Development Agency.

  • News

    London Bridge Tower inquiry begins

    11 April 2003

    The public inquiry into Irvine Sellar's proposed London Bridge Tower starts on Tuesday when Sellar Property Group starts battle against conservationists led by English Heritage . The image above shows the contentious view of the 'shard of glass' (centre of the picture) and its impact on the London skyline ...

  • News

    The beauty of disclosure

    11 April 2003

    The interesting thing about the huge sum of money that Andrew Farkas is receiving from the takeover of his firm Insignia Financial is that Property Week has been able to find out about it

  • Insight

    Battle for London's skyline

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    Next week an all-star battalion of designers and developers will enter the fray against English Heritage to decide, once and for all, whether London Bridge Tower has a future on London s historic skyline. Tristan McConnell reports on the bloody battle to come

  • Markets

    Offices: To Solihull and back

    11 April 2003

    Solihull may be a cheaper alternative but Birmingham is still seen as the Midlands' capital. We trace recent activity in the two centres

  • Insight

    Regeneration Award

    11 April 2003

    Sponsored by HSBC

  • News

    Liberty avoids first-quarter property share carnage

    11 April 2003

    FTSE 100 entry is springboard to positive first quarter, but fellow majors flounder