All Property Week articles in 12 October 2012 – Page 7
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Insight
Boxing, buildings and Stonehenge: it’s not just desserts
It surprises me when people misunderstand me. I don’t mean people whose mother tongue isn’t English, but members of my family, close friends or associates.
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Markets
Legal eagles bolster Bristol office take-up
Law firms leasing single floors of new Bristol office developments have helped to ameliorate the city’s disastrous take-up figures for this year.
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News
Slapdash Boles
Planning minister Nick Boles began his Conservative Party conference by telling delegates at the Home Builders Federation debate on ickstarting housing development it was “the classic politician’s trick” to thank everyone for coming before “having to dash” when the questions started.
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News
Need to know: Blackstone’s Project Isobel loans
Bond sale lifts the lid on precise details of portfolio of loans sold by RBS. Mike Phillips investigates
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News
Blackstone primed for end of three-year ‘lock-in’
£75m. That is how much equity Blackstone put in to buy a 50% stake in the City of London’s most famous office development of the last 30 years — to buy half of an office complex that even at the depth of the crisis was worth more than £2bn, and ...
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Insight
The Big Think
Property Week, Mishcon de Reya, Central and Derwent London bring together thought leaders to tackle the future of London. Lucy Scott reports. Photographs by Jon Cardwell
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News
Wood you believe it
Ludgate has learned that auction house Acuitus has its very own sporting star — well, almost.
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News
Yoo gets into bed with hotel developers
Hitchcox’s Yoo Hotels recruits hotel expert to partner on schemes worldwide
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News
Mount Street and CBRE pair become loan rangers
Ravi Joseph and Paul Lloyd secure US backing to set up loan-servicing business
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Markets
Bath’s pasta wars
Pasta wars are waging at Milsom Place shopping centre, Bath. The protagonists are celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Antonio Carluccio.
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Markets
John Lewis effect grandstands in Bath
Waitrose Food and Home to take over Podium shopping centre. Christine Eade reports
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News
Former Bank of Ireland HQ for sale
The former Bank of Ireland headquarters in Dublin, which was bought by a consortium of Irish investors in 2006 for €212m, is back on the market.
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Professional
Revenue and Customs wins stamp duty avoidance test case
Vardy Property Group found to have misused tax loophole. Sarah Townsend reports
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Professional
Thames Gateway duo take on tricky assets
The outgoing chair and chief executive of a Thames Gateway regeneration body are setting up a consultancy to advise landlords on how to manage “difficult” assets.
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News
Ashley supersizes
Sports Direct to use 31,000 sq ft Bristol unit as launchpad for Decathlon assault
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News
Ashley supersizes
Sports Direct to use 31,000 sq ft Bristol unit as launchpad for Decathlon assault
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Professional
Councils need joined-up approach to planning
The UK planning system lacks an effective mechanism for cross-boundary strategic planning, claims research to be published next week.
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Insight
Safeguards needed for IPD’s sale to Americans
IPD is a true world leader — a “towering achievement”, in the words of one leading fund manager this week.
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News
America banks on Spain
One of the world’s biggest banks is in talks to buy a large portfolio of distressed Spanish loans at a 60% discount, in a transaction that is seen as key for Europe’s property market.
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Markets
North Somerset Council wants homes built alongside offices
Local authority wants to encourage “employment-led regeneration”. Christine Eade reports