All Property Week articles in 14 December 2007 – Page 6
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Rokeby buys Stockton site
Rokeby Developments has bought a 15 acre site in Stockton-on-Tees to create a £50m business park.
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Goodman buys Calliston …
Goodman has bought German business park developer Calliston, which has developed 10m sq ft in the last decade.
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Pramerica buys Japanese group
Pramerica Real Estate Investors has bought Round Hill Capital Partners Kabushiki Kaisha, giving the company a presence in Japan.
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Savills says ‘lack of buyer pragmatism’ led to poor sale
An interest rate cut failed to boost sales at Savills’ commercial auction on Monday, as the company posted a 60% success rate.
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Sellar’s Italian buy in Germany
Sellar Property Group has bought and leased back a €55.5m (£40m) largely logistics portfolio of 13 German properties, at an initial yield of 7.2%.
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Burton deal bucks trend
PalletForce, one of the UK’s main distribution network operators, is poised to exchange on one of the biggest industrial lettings since the credit crunch hit.
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BTW Shiells’ Ulster resi mega-firm
Northern Ireland’s BTW Shiells has merged with residential specialist Eric Cairns Partnership.
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Flat Broke
As the number of unoccupied flats rises, Doug Morrison asks: has the bottom fallen out of the buy-to-let market?
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British Land makes a green impact
British Land’s bold vision of achieving carbon neutrality by 2008/09 was one of the main reasons it was voted sustainable developer of the year at our sister magazine, Building’s annual Sustainability Awards for 2007.
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Prime market still a bonus
Reduced City bonuses will have minimal impact on property hot spots
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Invista sells West End office block
A joint venture between developer Draco and Irish stockbroker Davy has bought the 52,592 sq ft Berkshire House office block in London’s West End for £34m from Invista Real Estate Investment Management.
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Insight
Fame game turns to blame game
Until recently most people thought shopping centres were owned by the council, offices by their occupiers and homes by those who lived in them.
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Grid’s winning bid put off till new year
The deadline for a decision on the £700m sale of National Grid Property has been pushed back by a month to January.
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Countryside Properties claim health benefits
Countryside Properties is claiming its St Mary’s Island scheme in Chatham, Kent, has health-giving properties. The 2,000 homes, so the developer says, will reduce stress and boost health and well-being because of their proximity to the River Medway. The website, however, reveals that most of the 71 homes in ...
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Planning: how to manage the battle of glass v grass
David Lawson learns how Sir Nigel Thompson keeps both developers and conservationists happy
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Barratt takes up Carbon Challenge in Bristol
Barratt has won an English Partnerships competition to build a carbon-neutral development of 188 homes at Hanham Hall near Bristol.
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Tories jump on housing review bandwagon
The Conservative Party has joined the housing review bandwagon with the aim of finding new ways to speed up the buying and selling of homes in England and Wales.
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Vantage bags up in Knightsbridge
Vantage Asset Management has bought a 56,600 sq ft mixed-use block at 145-161 Brompton Road in London’s Knightsbridge for £55m an initial yield of 3.81% from Invista Real Estate Investment Management on behalf of Clerical Medical Investment Group. CB Richard Ellis acted for Invista.