All Property Week articles in 14 November 2003 – Page 3
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Coping with the heat, termites and 'making good'
Building surveying in AustraliaAt a glance, the Australian property and construction industry looks familiar to the UK-trained property professional, but a more in-depth study soon reveals the different practices that have been developed to suit the local market. To operate successfully, you need extensive local experience and knowledge.Australia's building stock ...
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LandSecs continues London sell-off
IBM Building sells for £75m, £90m Holborn office is next in line to go
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More consistency in price trends urged
Proliferation of indices has complicated predictions on direction of market
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Inner City: James Whitmore
Wednesday’s takeover of sleepy old £50m housebuilder Swan Hill, better known in its previous guise of Higgs & Hill, may not appear to have the oomph that the protracted battles at Canary Wharf and Chelsfield possess. In fact, it has the wow factor in bucketloads – more glamour, ...
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DTZ Yorks chief leaves to join client GMI
James Poskitt, head of agency and development at DTZ in Yorkshire, has quit to join one of his longstanding clients, Leeds-based developer and investment company GMI Holdings. Poskitt, who has been at DTZ for 10 years and headed the Leeds office for five and a half, resigned last week ...
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Three more senior directors join Chesterton exodus
Pearson, Crossley and Miles are the latest to depart since Jafari-Fini’s takeover
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Rigid zoning provides certainty
Planning issues Down UnderUnlike the UK, planning in Australia is largely decentralised. It is fundamentally controlled by state governments.Each state is responsible for producing its own planning legislation which, in turn, filters through to the local authorities.As in the UK, the basis of the planning system is the development plan. ...
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Catwalks to Cavern Walks
Vivienne Westwood s new store could give Liverpool s luxury retail sector the boost it needs.
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London & Cambridge Properties
London & Cambridge Properties has been granted planning consent by Maidstone Borough Council for a 90,000 sq ft (8,361 sq m) office building on the town’s Mote Road. The building, designed by the Amos Partnership, includes nine storeys of offices plus 430 parking spaces. The developer plans to start ...
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Irish Life buys Uxbridge park sites
Denham Park Group has sold two buildings on Uxbridge Business Park to Irish Life for £23.5m. The two 33,350 sq ft (3,112 sq m) buildings are let to Xerox and produce £1.67m in rent a year. Denham bought the park from MEPC for £75m in April. Allard Ryan Consulting ...
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Close fund to buy phone retailer's HQ
£41.5m 'low-risk' deal for Carphone Warehouse office in west London
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REIT confidence boosts market
Property shares surged last week as investors continued to put faith in both the prospect of a UK REIT -type vehicle and the overall market. The top performer was St Modwen Properties. Its share price soared 6% to a highest-ever price of 241.5p. Among the larger companies, Slough Estates ...
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LDA unveils list of key venues for Olympic bid
The preferred locations of key venues for the 2012 Olympic Games in east London were revealed this week by the London Development Agency (LDA). The venues will be clustered in a 500 acre (202 ha) site towards the north of the 1,500 acre (607 ha) Lower Lea Valley regeneration area. ...
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Brascan prepares to go hostile in Canary Wharf bid
Canadians team up with Hermes to garner shareholder support for 252p-a-share offer
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Pillar sells Beckton retail park
Pillar Property has sold 50% of its Beckton shopping park in east London for £80m to Hercules Unit Trust, in which it owns a 37% stake. The sale will take the value of Hercules’ portfolio of shopping parks above £2bn from the £1.97bn it was last valued at on ...
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Canary Wharf hit as Barclays and Lehman hand back space
There was more bad news from the tenants of Canary Wharf this week, as Barclays and Lehman Brothers exercised 'put' options to sublet space back to Canary Wharf Group. Barclays is to sublet 327,000 sq ft (30,379 sq m) of its 1m sq ft (9,290 sq m) building ...
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Underdogs fight back
As land availability begins to dry up in the region and prices rise, Property Week presents a rundown of prime industrial land values in the north-west, compiled by Dunlop Heywood Lorenz
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Professional
Stamping on avoidance
Australian Stamp DutySeen through UK eyes, Australian stamp duties are an exotic mix of the old and new. There are eight systems of stamp duties corresponding to the legal jurisdictions that levy duties under the Australian federal system.Some systems have unreformed legislation dating to the 1920s (Western Australia and South ...
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Australia's John Ritblat
Over the past 30 years Greg Paramor has become Australia's foremost property figure. Tristan McConnell met Australia's deal machine in Sydney and reviews life Down Under.
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