All Property Week articles in 12 February 2010 – Page 9
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Insight
Intelligence: Cushman & Wakefield prime yields data
City and West End offices lead the yield field
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News
Wrenbridge refurbishes in Croydon
Wrenbridge Land has bought a 30,000 sq ft retail refurbishment scheme at 68-74 Church Street in Croydon
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Professional
Need to know: Crossrail levy
This April, London businesses will start to pay a tax to help fund rail scheme Crossrail
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Markets
FSA rounds on cowboy house grabbers
Fear of repossession, rising debt and low deposit rates have forced overstretched owners to enter into sale-and-rent-back deals on their homes
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ProfessionalCouncils to cosy up under Total Place
Public sector asset-sharing pilot project makes its recommendations
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NewsFrogmore’s cool idea
Paul White’s Frogmore Real Estate Partners has introduced a “Freezehold” scheme to help businesses that cannot secure bank lending buy their own premises
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MarketsLegal & General mulls hotel and resi conversions in Covent Garden portfolio
Legal & General’s £119.5m purchase in December of the Covent Garden portfolio from ING Covent Garden Limited Partnership brought an end to 15 years of involvement by Rugby Estates, which managed and co-invested in the portfolio
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Professional
RTPI: Conservatives’ ‘true’ planning regime
The Conservatives will impose the developments they want on to communities, despite pledging to promote local democracy in planning, the Royal Town Planning Institute warned at its annual conference
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News
Schools company scours UK for new locations
GEMS Education, which runs international schools across the globe, is hunting for a new site in the UK
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Markets
West End property community lobbies Conservatives on empty rates
Landlords pin hopes on Tory election victory
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Professional
People Moves: Dacres Commercial, Knight Frank and more
Silverstone is a new building surveying and project management company established by Ben Hunter, former head of building consultancy at James Barr, and Richard Farrey, a former partner at King Sturge. The firm is based at Milburn House, Dean Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tel: 0191 231 4263
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News
Insolvencies down but worse still to come
The rate of corporate insolvencies dipped slightly in the fourth quarter of last year but the UK still reached a 16-year high of 19,077 companies going to the wall in 2009, the latest Insolvency Service figures show
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Markets
Thinktank knows there are unknowns to come
“We know that there are known unknowns, but there are also unknown unknowns,” former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld once famously said
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OnlineErnst & Young's ITEM Club Special Report: The outlook for commercial property
"Since mid-2009 capital values have recovered strongly. But this appears to have little to do with fundamentals, with the weak economic backdrop meaning that occupier demand has continued to contract. The upturn has been driven by sentiment, with investors calling the bottom of the market and seeing buying opportunities. ...
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News
Prologis cleans up in Midlands leasing surge
Oxford University Press and Gap swoop in Kettering and Stafford
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OnlineLord Justice Jackson's Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final report
"In some areas of civil litigation costs are disproportionate and impede access to justice. I therefore propose a coherent package of interlocking reforms, designed to control costs and promote access to justice."
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NewsChoux fits
Upmarket French patissier Pierre Hermé is to debut in London at Grosvenor’s 13 Lowndes Street in Belgravia
