All Property Week articles in 12 December 2003
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Brascan and Reichmann join forces
Canadian property group Brascan and former Canary Wharf Group chairman Paul Reichmann, both potential bidders for the Docklands developer, have agreed to combine their interests to defeat the recommended Morgan Stanley bid.
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ProLogis sells UK sheds for £190m
ProLogis has completed the sale of 15 UK distribution facilities to Standard Life for £190m.
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Chelsfield fails to attract bidders
Chelsfield this morning announced it had received no firm bids for the company so far, apart from chairman Elliott Bernerd's 305p-a-share management buyout offer, which it formally rejected.
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Helical Bar JV in £60m Solihull development
Helical Bar and joint venture partner Oswin Developments is to develop a £60m mixed- use scheme in Birmingham’s wealthiest suburb with Coltham Developments, the industrial specialist partly owned by Andy Ruhan.
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Ropemaker Place gets green light
Helical Bar and Deutsche Bank Real Estate Investments were last night granted consent for their redevelopment of the Ropemaker Place site on the northern edge of the City of London.
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ODPM reasserts in-town focus for development
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) today reaffirmed its commitment to concentrating development in town centres, rather than out-of-town sites, with the launch of its revised planning policy statement for town centres (PPS6).
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Derwent trades £28m of offices
Derwent Valley Holdings today announced £28m worth of office sales and acquisitions in the West End and Ladbroke Grove.
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Amec given green light for Chatham Place
Developer Amec has received planning permission for its 1m sq ft (92,900 sq m) mixed-use Chatham Place development in Reading
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Alconbury cleared for take-off
Alconbury Developments has been given the green light for its 7m sq ft (650,315 sq m) freight distribution centre at the disused Alconbury airfield near Cambridge.
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Wales' small world
Research from the Welsh Development Agency shows that small requirements are dominating.
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Lidl wins London site
Discount food retailer Lidl has paid a record price to beat shed developer ProLogis to a north London industrial site. Lidl has paid more than £1.06m/acre (£2.6m/ha) for 12.5 acres (5 ha) at Kennet Properties' Aztec 406 scheme on the north circular road in Enfield. Kennet was in talks to ...
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Patience is a virtue for small investors
As they peered through the double doors leading to the packed Allsop auction room at the Berkeley Hotel, a couple from south London blew out their cheeks and rolled their eyes at the high price paid for a bank investment, writes Natalie Stevenson. 'The market is getting very competitive ...
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Planning inquiries are the last resort
Developers are concentrating on securing local consent
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How the Sellar tower inquiry was won
Mark Jansen reports on the arguments used to win planning approval for what could become the tallest building in Britain
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IPD: regeneration returns are higher and less risky
New research shows deprived area properties produce double-digit returns
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Grainger starts resi REIT restructuring
Quoted residential investor aims to capitalise on new property vehicle
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Stepping on the gas
A five-year expansion programme has made Margram the UK s largest independent operator of filling stations with convenience stores, and the pace is not about to let up.
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Institutions on look-out for regeneration gains
Regeneration gatherings do not normally set the pulse racing. But in place of the usual list of do-gooders, last week's event to mark the unveiling of the IPD research on urban regeneration attracted some of the biggest names in the institutional property world, writes Tim Danaher. Host Morley ...