All Property Week articles in 12 July 2013 – Page 4
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Online
Internacionale undergoes prepack administration
Struggling fashion brand Internacionale has been sold as part of a prepack administration today, after filing two successive notices of intention to appoint administrators.
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Online
Chelsea Barracks buyers found to have used £50m unlawful tax scheme
The joint venture between Qatari Diar and CPC Group which bought Chelsea Barracks in 2007 has been found to have used an unlawful tax structure to complete the deal, a court ruled today.
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Online
News Corp signs up to occupy “Baby Shard”
News Corporation has today signed to take a lease on most of the Baby Shard, ahead of a relocation for its News International division from Land Securities’ and Cadillac Fairview’s Thomas More Square.
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Online
Modelzone stores to shut
The stores of collapsed retailer Modelzone will be closed after administrators failed to find a buyer for the business.
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Online
Blackrock Solutions appointed to RBS bad bank review
The Treasury has appointed financial research company Blackrock Solutions to provide specialist advice on Royal Bank of Scotland assets as part of the government’s bad bank review.
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Online
Intu launches new digital shopping site
Intu has embarked on the latest stage of its new digital infrastructure with the launch of a transactional website.
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Online
Prime London retail rents "mad" and restrict independent shops, retailer warns
Rents across the London luxury retail market are hampering independent retailers, the founder of Links of London and Annoushka Jewellery warned today at a Movers and Shakers breakfast.
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Online
GreenOak and Regal part ways on Whitechapel
GreenOak Real Estate and Regal Homes have ended a proposed partnership for the £500m regeneration of the Whitechapel Estate, London.
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Online
RBS man joins Cornerstone
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers has appointed RBS director Chris Bates as its head of European real estate finance.
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Online
Topland buys West End office
Topland Group has exchanged contracts to buy 233 Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Online
Lloyds completes £43.7m refinancing agreement with Barnsley developer
Barnsley-based developer Dransfield Properties has completed a £43.7m refinancing agreement with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking for two of its schemes.
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Online
Canadian pension fund and BT tie up for £350m West End JV
A Canadian investment fund has entered into a joint venture with the Hermes-managed BT Pension Scheme to acquire West End offices.
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Online
Quintain and Knight Dragon JV to build 1,683 homes in Greenwich Peninsula
A joint venture between Knight Dragon and Quintain has secured planning permission for 1,683 homes in Greenwich Peninsula.
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News
Victor in Victoria
Westminster City Council has passed a resolution to grant consent for Land Securities’ residential refurbishment of Portland House, the headquarters of Development Securities, in London’s Victoria.
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News
Do your verse
If there are two things that Ludgate loves, it is commercial property and poetry.
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Insight
RESI reflections
Sir, What a sorry reflection on our industry that the collection of 18 faces on last week’s Property Week cover wrap are all male.
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Markets
Take three … speculative offices
Capital & Centric this week became the latest developer to push the button on speculative office development, signalling growing confidence in the north-west property market, and several other developers are committing to large speculative starts. Alex Therrien takes a look at three schemes
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Markets
Q&A: Mayfair's peer-to-peer lending model
The Mayfair Bridging “syndication scheme”, approved by the Financial Services Authority in January, allows private investors to fund bridging loans to residential property developers that need short-term finance.
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Markets
Intelligence: Liverpool office market at a tipping point
Liverpool offices are on the up at last.