All Property Week articles in 11 February 2005 – Page 2

Markets

Weardale’s hotspot

11 February 2005

Weardale’s regeneration task force hopes the chance to create the first geo-thermally powered eco-village will attract developers to a remote, disused industrial site.

Professional

The Natural History Museum

11 February 2005

The Natural History Museum in London won planning permission for a 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sq m) extension last week featuring a nine-storey ‘cocoon’ enclosed in a glass atrium. The architect is Danish firm CF Møller, and Drivers Jonas is the project adviser. There were lengthy discussions with English Heritage ...

Insight

Protect her precious pension

11 February 2005

Leases are shorter, break clauses are commonplace and rental growth has stalled: tenants have never had it so good. Yet now, the upward-only rent review – one of the key reasons for property’s status as one of the UK’s three main asset classes, with equities and gilts – is under ...

News

Harman Healy posts strong start to year

11 February 2005

Harman Healy’s residential auction team set their commercial colleagues an 80% success rate target at their first residential sale of 2005 on 27 January.

Insight

Hanover Square

11 February 2005

Markets

Hall of shame

11 February 2005

Tesco is in talks to join forces with Darlington council to develop a big town centre scheme – and demolish the town hall.

Markets

Paddingtons green light

11 February 2005

Development Securities started work on the second phase of PaddingtonCentral last month, while Paddington Basin marks time.

Insight

Going places

11 February 2005

Who's moving onwards and upwards

Markets

Gateshead revisited

11 February 2005

Newcastle’s twin across the Tyne is taking off.

News

Lovells joins the royal heir farce

11 February 2005

It took place in the aftermath of Prince Harry’s swastika costume antics, and the prince’s lapse in taste did not go unnoticed in the evening’s picture caption competition (see right). The eventual winner was Peter Restarick from Royal Mail, who suggested: ‘Well, you let me in last week when I ...

Markets

Victoria falls

11 February 2005

Government tenants are out of the market, but Victoria’s bold new office schemes are struggling to find tenants.

News

Knightsbridge Estate up for sale

11 February 2005

bp Pension Fund has put its 3.4 acre (1.4 ha) Knightsbridge Estate (outlined, left) up for sale with a guide price of £415m. This reflects a yield of 5.05% on the freehold island block, bounded by Brompton Road (far left and centre), Hans Crescent, Basil Street and Sloane Street. ...

News

In plain english

11 February 2005

Spurred on by King Sturge’s Philip Strevens, I have been running a campaign to improve spelling and grammar in the property industry.

News

West End

11 February 2005

News

Fourth Grace site earmarked for museum

11 February 2005

National Museums Liverpool (NML) has unveiled plans for a £65m museum scheme on Mann Island, the former site of the controversially scrapped Fourth Grace proposal.

Professional

Diary of... a property lawyer

11 February 2005

Delia Kempley, property partner at Nabarro Nathanson, takes us through her week

Markets

Diamond heights

11 February 2005

Diamond merchant Harry Winston is to pay a staggering £625 zone A in Old Bond Street — a new UK record. But there are fears that other retailers may be priced out.

News

Databank

11 February 2005

This week, savings accounts, life assurance and the first in a series of regional house-price reports

News

Countrywide’s triple sale

11 February 2005

Countrywide Property Auctions began the year well with a series of high-selling events in Manchester, Birmingham and London.

Professional

Lets not complicate matters

11 February 2005

Opting out of the Landlord and Tenant Act is a far more complex than it used to be. Peta Dollar urges the government to simplify things