All Property Week articles in 14 May 2004
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Online
Lawrence Graham in talks for South Bank HQ
Lawrence Graham has confirmed it is in exclusive talks to take 150,000 sq ft (13,935 sq m) office space at the More London development on the South Bank.
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LandSecs ties up £150m constitutional department lease
Land Securities today announced it had signed an asset management contract and long-term lease worth £150m with the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA).
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LandSecs fires regulation warning at government
Land Securities today warned the government that excessive regulation of the property industry could destroy its promising future as an asset class to rival equities.
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Lowe takes assignment of rival's London HQ
Advertising company Lowe & Partners has completed its deal to take an assignment of rival Leo Burnett’s headquarters at 60 Sloane Avenue, London SW3.
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Cap & Reg buys Preston mall
Capital & Regional, the co-investing property asset manager, today announced it had bought the St George’s Centre in Preston, Lancashire, for £102.5m
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British Land chief exec candidate pulls out
British Land resumed the search for a chief executive this morning, after its preferred candidate unexpectedly rejected the post yesterday afternoon.
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Sainsbury’s and Morrisons agree £110m store deal
Sainsbury’s today announced it had reached agreement with supermarket rival Morrisons to buy 14 stores for £110m.
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Wilson Bowden is Scottish Developer of the Year
Wilson Bowden was named Scottish Developer of the Year at the 2004 Scottish Property Awards, held last night at The Glasgow Hilton.
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Markets
Talk of the towns
Kemsley Whiteley & Ferris secretary Valerie Forbes is up for an honourary position as social entertainer for the Industrial Agents' Society. One attendee of the society's committee lunch at Julie's in London's Notting Hill, says: 'She lived it up like Barbara Windsor. She should take over Kemsley Whiteley & Ferris ...
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Insight
Red tape resistance
A wave of red tape and regulation threatens to engulf up to 60,000 chartered surveyors. à From 14 January 2005, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) plans to supervise every surveyor, managing agent or adviser who has even a peripheral involvement in insurance, from collecting a premium to filling out ...
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News
Peter Smedvig: Protego’s Scandinavian protector
Iain Reid has something in common with his new financial backer, Peter Smedvig: oil. Smedvig was born in Norway’s oil city, Stavanger, while Reid hails from Scotland’s oil capital, Aberdeen. Financially, however, they are further apart. The Norwegian is a billionaire and chairman of Smedvig, an offshore drilling contractor that ...
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Markets
Now you see them...
Each enquiry for a big office requirement in Hertfordshire looks like being the real thing, only to vanish into thin air.
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Markets
New towns, old shops
Stevenage may be a new town, but its 1950s shops are shabby and outdated. Stuart Watson reports on plans by Stanhope and ING to revamp the town centre, and looks at plans to revitalise the retail in Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead
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Insight
Your profession needs you
A well-respected professional, who is trusted with the management of hundreds of millions of pounds worth of property by Britain's biggest landlords, didn't know who frightened him most.
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Mosley St revamp revealed
Manchester City Council has revealed its vision for the 916,015 sq ft (85,100 sq m) redevelopment of the neglected Mosley Street in the city centre. Council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein commissioned Terry Farrell & Partners to draw up plans for the eastern edge of anchester's 'square half-mile'. Development ...
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Markets
Joint venture
Land Securities and Capital & Regional have taken a co-operative approach to infrastructure and branding at Lakeside retail park. Now they may need to work together to combat the threat of terrorism.
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LSH sets up Irish investment team
Lambert Smith Hampton has set up a dedicated Irish-UK investment team to take advantage of the demand for UK properties from Irish investors. Colm McHugh, a senior investment surveyor with the company, who has worked in LSH London for almost four years, will take on the new role from ...
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Professional
Inside parliament
Responding to EganSir John Egan's report into how we develop the professional skills needed to implement the Sustainable Communities initiative has been dismissed by some as a damp squib. This is grossly unfair. Some of its recommendations could have been developed a bit further, but it does outline a set ...
