All Property Week articles in 12 November 1999 – Page 2
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Markets
Crawley & North Sussex Crawley takes off
Crawley and Gatwick are giving M25 towns a run for their money.
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Surrey offices: north and west Rising confidence lifts rents
Offices markets in towns near to Heathrow are buoyant. By Peter Lowe, Weatherall Green & Smith
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Sussex coast industrial: harbours leading the way
Mark Deacon, Strutt & Parker Enquiry levels are at an all-time high, but trying to satisfy them and find space in the right area is still a difficulty. Brighton, with the Downs to the north and the sea to the south, has the best transport network on ...
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Insight
Cox clever
Brian Cox and his Kent firm Harrisons can celebrate a 25-year relationship with Eurolink, the Sittingbourne business park. Christine Eade discovers the secret of their lasting partnership
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News
Lord Chancellor plans commonhold revival
The Lord Chancellor is working on plans to introduce commonhold as a way of owning both commercial and residential property. The proposed Bill is more wide-ranging than three previous failed attempts to legislate, as it could also be retrospective. Delegates at the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) conference in ...
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Case study: Observatory Reigate
Robert Greacen, UK & European Investments Observatory Reigate is a 5,010 sq m (53,920 sq ft) Town Centre development which completes in spring 2000. The Reigate office market has been relatively quiet of late on the supply side at least. There have been ...
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ISVA vote will be close call
Next month's ISVA vote on its merger with the RICS will go to the wire following a closer-than-expected preliminary vote this week. ISVA council members voted 46-8 in favour of the merger at a meeting on Wednesday to determine whether it would advise its members ...
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Criterion stake goes to Butler
SWEDISH INVESTOR PETER Gyllenhammar has sold his large holding in tiny property investor Criterion Properties. Three nominee accounts, linked to Gyllenhammar, have sold their 18.7% stake to Butler Finance for around £1.3m, equivalent to around 100p a share. An investor connected to Butler, Pavenham Investments, already owns 4.3%. Since ...
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Sussex coast offices Buildings at a premium
Assisted Area status has bolstered occupier demand in an already tight market.
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News
Brown overrules DETR on business clusters
The rift between the DETR and the DTI over planning policy deepened this week after the Chancellor backed the DTI s push for business clusters in his pre-Budget speech. The DTI appeared to have won a victory over the DETR which opposes clustered development around specialist ...
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Retail The future looks Brighton
A handful of major developments look set to boost the Sussex retail scene.
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Mind the gap: Green first off the blocks in Watford
Green Property this week became the first of four competing developers to fully let its speculative office scheme in Watford. The company, run by Stephen Vernon , has let its 2,755 sq m (29,655 sq ft) scheme at Clarendon Road to serviced office company Regus . The deal, ...
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Manchester BIDs for biggest city plan
One of Britain s first Business Improvement District (BID)-style companies is to be launched in Manchester this month. The city council is fronting the project with the support of landowners Prudential , Marks & Spencer , Boots , United Utilities and Bruntwood Estates in a new vehicle, the ...
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Trillium reaps the benefit
Trillium, the Goldman Sachs-backed company that took over the DSS s property estate in April 1998, is raking it in. The company s first financial results, which have been lodged at Companies House, reveal that it made a pre-exceptional profit of £27.4m in its first nine months of operation ...
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Weatheralls beefs up in Bristol with HBSV buy
Weatherall Green & Smith expanded its presence in the West Country this week after it snapped up surveying firm HBSV s Bristol operation. Westheralls has added eight professional and agency staff to its 20-strong team as part of its strategy to strengthen its regional office network. ...
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Barber White spins a web
Research organisation Barber White is planning to set up the first commercial property trading web site. It is understood to have signed up a raft of institutions to the venture including Schroders, hermes and Prudential which will be launched next month. Barber White ...
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Autumn share mauling creates bargain buys
Property shares have been so badly mauled this autumn that investment bank Warburg Dillon Read claims major stocks can be snapped up at bargain prices. The sector has been savagely derated over the last two months, said Warburg property analyst Quentin Freeman this week. The ...
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Insight
Access all areas
Self-storage is finally taking off as an investment sector in the UK, as entrepreneurs like Nick Leslau and Nigel Wray pile in. Leading the charge is Security Capital-financed Access, with £105m to spend on new sites.
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Hammer comes down on Sotheby’s West End HQ
Sotheby s, the blue-blooded auction house and fine art dealer, is to uproot from its historic base in London s opulent New Bond Street. The company has been at its Georgian base since 1917, but wants to make the break from the past and relocate to more efficient ...
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Archer protests over mayor’s office deal
The government will pay £7.5m a year to rent the Greater London Authority office at London Bridge, Property Week has learned. Senior executives at the DETR have agreed heads of terms for the deal with developer CIT, which will see the new authority locked into a deal on ...
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