All Property Week articles in 14 December 2012 – Page 4
-
Professional
Moscow masterplans south-west super-suburbs
Huge expansion of city planned over next 30 years. Property Week reports from Moscow.
-
News
Livestocks and shares
Last week’s BCSC annual dinner at the Grosvenor House hotel was the scene of an alpaca-off, as two retail property investors locked horns not, as is normal, by comparing their fleet of cars, but competing with their livestock.
-
Insight
REITs must learn they are not masters of their own universe
German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) won the Nobel Prize for his “uncertainty principle”, which states that the speed and position of a particle cannot be measured with equal precision.
-
Markets
Need to know: student invasion
On 5 December Cardiff Council’s planning committee approved an application from Aberdeen Asset Management to convert Windsor House on Windsor Place from multi-let offices into 22 student flats, subject to a section 106 agreement.
-
Insight
Tweeting on ice
The Twitter followers of Property Week attempted half-loops and axel jumps to varying degrees of success at Broadgate Ice in the City of London during its latest Tweet Up, held on 29 November.
-
News
Leisure hub for Redditch mall
Capital & Regional has submitted plans to create a leisure hub at its Kingfisher Shopping Centre in Redditch.
-
News
London hotel showdown
The latest stage of the fight between the Barclay brothers, Sir David and Sir Frederick, and Irish entrepreneur Paddy McKillen over three prime London hotels is due to come to a head next week.
-
News
South-east to suffer homes shortfall
The south-east of England is heading for a shortfall of 3,600 homes a year, research from Savills shows.
-
News
H&M luxe launch on Regent St
Fashion retailer’s global debut of upmarket “& Other Stories” line in former Mamas & Papas store
-
News
Hermes in Milton Keynes swap shop
Prupim is in talks to swap its stake in the Centre MK in Milton Keynes for Hermes’ Friary Centre in Guildford.
-
News
Heavenly Peace
Talking of parties, the fun-loving British Property Federation is getting into the festive mood with its “CILent Night” seminar on the community infrastructure levy, next week.
-
News
Season’s ticket greetings
Property Week revealed last week that Lambert Smith Hampton and its die-hard Spurs fan chief executive, Ezra Nahome, had won the mandate to advise the club on its long-term regeneration project around its White Hart Lane Stadium.
-
Professional
There are three shades of green leases: pink, orange and red
When it comes to green leases, I wonder whether we really are green, or just 50 shades of grey.
-
News
Never in the field of parties
David Coffer, chairman of Davis Coffer Lyons, tells Ludgate that the theme of his office Christmas party this year is “come as what you wanted to be when you were a child”.
-
News
Fidelity raises regional funds
One of the world’s biggest fund managers is raising more than £350m to invest in secondary and regional property in the UK and Europe.
-
Professional
Q+A: Target Parking queen Emma Sinclair
Emma Sinclair, founder and chief executive of Target Parking, spoke alongside mayor of London Boris Johnson and Olympic park charity Legacy List CEO Sarah Weir at the inaugural London Means Business dinner, a platform for the mayor to announce his economic policy for the year ahead last month.
-
News
Industry’s stamp duty relief
Government confirms property companies will not have to pay 15% on residential worth more than £2m
-
Professional
Draft exclusions leave holes in leases
The message The court cannot rewrite badly drafted leases.
-
Insight
First, the dodgy dossier, now hallucinations
Sir, With the strong medication I was prescribed last week came a warning that it could cause me to see and hear things that did not exist.
-
News
Poundland derides government’s ‘reckless’ rates revaluation delay
One of the UK’s biggest discount retailers has backed a campaign against government plans to postpone the rates revaluation.