All Property Week articles in 11 May 2012 – Page 4
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Online
01 Properties pulls IPO
The Russian property investment company 01 Properties, will pull its initial public offering, due to “adverse market conditions.”
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Online
Private sector development on the rise
The level of commercial development activity rose for the second successive month, a report published today claims.
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Professional
Public-private union is vehicle for success
Public spending cuts are proving a barrier to effective regeneration. But a new report reveals the benefits of a partnership model between the public and private sector — where the risks and rewards of a venture are shared — cannot be underestimated.
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News
Office spots vie for podium
Knight Frank hopped, skipped and jumped on the Olympics bandwagon for its M25 market breakfast at London’s Dorchester hotel last week.
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Insight
Narnian nonsense
Sir, While watching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with my son, I was forcibly struck by the uncanny resemblance between the heroic young firebrand warrior, Edmund Pevensie of Narnia, and Property Week’s very own heroic young firebrand scribbler, Nick Johnstone.
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News
The Property Lexicon
Bifurcation /’baıfərkeı∫ən/n. Coinage adopted when the phrase “two-tier market” begins to sound uninspired.
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Markets
Need to know: Peacocks’ position
As a result of heavy borrowing rather than poor trading, value clothing retailer Peacocks, which made Wales its home in the 1940s, fell into administration in January 2011. By this time, its total debt had spiralled to £700m.
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Markets
Singer irons out hangar let
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson (pictured) is to set up a business in one of Wales’s enterprise zones
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Markets
The next Google or Microsoft will be made in Salford
We have been a long-term investor in Salford Quays since 1985. However, it is less than five years since we began the construction of Media City UK.
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News
Show goes on in Manchester
There has been much talk in Manchester about the next occupier for Ask Developments’ Number One office building.
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News
Singapore’s GIC turns to lending
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, is considering entering the senior debt market to fill the gap for property lending left by the banks.
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Insight
Get into NPPF spirit
Sir, Alastair Stewart’s column certainly added to the National Planning Policy Framework debate (professional, 27.04.12).
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News
Glanmore fund given three-month grace
The £578m Glanmore Property Fund has been given a three-month grace period to refinance £392m of debt that matured in April.
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News
Full marks to M&S at Welsh retail park
Marks & Spencer has signed to anchor Hammerson’s 150,000 sq ft retail extension of the Cyfarthfa Retail Park in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
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News
Terrace Hill stores up food schemes
Terrace Hill is having success with its strategy for its food store portfolio — one of the few stable sectors of the property market.
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News
Livingstone flagship sale
The billionaire Livingstone brothers are selling one of their flagship London buildings before a debt deadline in October.
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News
It’s steady as she goes for those who can find finance
Perhaps the most positive news for property investors during the first quarter of this year was the introduction of the Government Loan Guarantee Scheme, which will reduce interest costs for investment loans.
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Insight
REIT managements face punishment from investors
US baseball veteran “Yogi” Berra once said of a game: “It’s deja vu all over again.” Are REIT shares about to repeat 2011’s “year in two halves”?