All Property Week articles in 12 May 2000 – Page 3

  • Markets

    Retail and leisure Hard times or the best of times?

    12 May 2000

    Rents continue to soar, despite the threat of new developments and e-tailing.

  • News

    Belgian buy-out puts PRICOA into Europe

    12 May 2000

    £48m purchase of Banimmo marks the start of 'further European acquisitions'

  • Markets

    City centre offices Creating a balance

    12 May 2000

    Manchester must create equilibrium to attract a wide range of occupiers. By Michael Hawkins, Lambert Smith Hampton

  • Markets

    Planning: local authorities welcome new development proposals

    12 May 2000

    Greater Manchester, like many other parts of the country is seeing an increase in planning activity. Bellway Homes, supported by the Northwest Development Agency, is to build 78 two-bedroom flats on an strategic route into Manchester. English Partnerships is providing funding from its investment programme for development in northern ...

  • News

    CSFB grades Ashtenne as best

    12 May 2000

    Industrial specialist Ashtenne is the best of the 11 larger December 1999 year-end companies at adding value, while Chelsfield is the worst, claims investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston. Ashtenne s management duo of Morgan Jones and Ian Watson have proved top-rate performers over three- and five-year periods. Capital ...

  • Professional

    A grey area of town

    12 May 2000

    If the planning regime is confusing in England, it’s doubly so in Scotland. One of the problems is that although Scotland has its own raft of planning guidance, the most recent of which was NPPG8: Town Centres and Retailing, developers and land owners are increasingly relying on English guidance notes ...

  • News

    Analysts confounded by JLL's performance

    12 May 2000

    Jones Lang LaSalle cuts its losses with interim period compensation plan

  • News

    Trammell flies into UK in Savills alliance

    12 May 2000

    US corporate outsourcing giant completes tie-up after nine months of talks

  • Insight

    Master of all I survey

    12 May 2000

    Surveying s top performers are moving on to more challenging roles with banks, accountants and management consultants. When still under 30, their former surveying firms let them loose on multimillion-pound deals and they never looked back. Yet as the youngsters escape, those with experience return to the fold, bringing their ...

  • News

    Eighties revival signals Hippodrome’s last dance

    12 May 2000

    Ex-Sibec man Birchall beats off established leisure developers bids to clinch legendary London nightspot

  • News

    Large developments first in London Mayor’s line of fire

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    Assembly takes legal advice in attempt to block Crystal Palace and White City schemes and questions GLA building costs

  • News

    Ken won’t bring the house down

    12 May 2000

    Ken Livingstone will find it almost impossible to get out of occupying the Norman Foster -designed GLA building, on London s South Bank. One of the new mayor s first actions on taking office was to question the expense of the £40m purpose-built glass building intended to be ...

  • News

    Green turns £190m

    12 May 2000

    The Whitehall Green Partnership is preparing to trade almost half its £400m portfolio, immediately after it completes its deal with P&O on Tuesday. The 50:50 joint venture formed between Goldman Sachs Whitehall Fund and Green Property to close the £400m deal, is thought to have lined up parties ...