All Property Week articles in 14 November 2008 – Page 4
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Online
Haymarket site called in as Unesco visits Edinburgh
Tiger Developments’ plans for a hotel scheme in Haymarket in Edinburgh have been called in by the Scottish Government as Unesco arrives in the city to inspect its heritage credentials.
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Online
Sainsbury's submits expansion plans in Welwyn Garden City
Sainsbury’s has submitted a planning application to Welwyn and Hatfield Borough Council to build a larger, store at its site in central Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
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Online
New chairman for Widnes Waterfront Business Steering Group
Widnes Waterfront Business Steering Group has elected Paul Murphy, Chief Executive of Forum Tecknik+, as its new Chairman.
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Online
CB Richard Ellis’s surge after $180m equity injection
CB Richard Ellis’s shares jumped 43% yesterday after the company raised $180m(£121m) in a sale of shares.
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Online
Highmore Homes in administration
Edinburgh-based residential developer Highmore Homes, part owned by Highcross the Newbury-based fund manager, has gone into administration.
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News
House prices 'far worse' than thought
House prices across the UK have already fallen far further than official data and market indicators suggest, Rightmove, the online estate agent warned yesterday, as it revealed that up to 300 estate agents were quitting its service every month.
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News
Great Portland halts to office development
Great Portland Estates, has halted all new development until the end of 2010 at the earliest as it downgraded expectations about occupier demand.
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News
Rightmove loses 15% of members
Rightmove, the property search website, warned that its estate agency membership had fallen 15% in the year to October, with a majority going bust due to the housing market downturn.
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News
Emaar to slash jobs as Gulf cools
Emaar Properties, one of the world’s largest property developers, is preparing to cut jobs to help it steer through the biggest crisis in its 11-year history amid a sharp fall on Dubai’s stock markets and a cooling of the Gulf state’s property sector.
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News
Bloxham urges government aid
The property-led revival of Britain’s deprived cities will stall unless more government money is available, a leading developer has warned.
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News
Capital & Regional expects increased tenant 'stress'
Capital & Regional expects to see 'increased stress' among its retail and leisure tenants as the economy contracts and consumer spending drops sharply.
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News
Met hunts for £100m to buy New Scotland Yard
The Metropolitan Police is attempting to buy New Scotland Yard after the premises were put on the market with an asking price of more than £100m.
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News
Flat-pack homes plan halted by crunch
BoKloks, the affordable Swedish prefabricated homes first marketed in Britain last year by flat-pack furniture giant Ikea, have become the latest victim of the economic downturn.
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News
London hotels set for occupancy slump
London’s hotels face a fall in occupancy not seen since the aftermath of 9/11, with sales next year poised to fall nearly a quarter, PwC warns today.
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Markets
Tiff at the top
Top Manchester figures got hot under the collar over the forthcoming Transport Innovation Fund vote at the Regenerate!Manchester conference organised by Property Week.
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Markets
REI’s regal take on retail
AIM-listed investment company Real Estate Investors (REI) has bought a retail parade in Kings Heath, Birmingham, for £4.15m from Rockspring Property Investment Managers.
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Professional
Retail’s rebellion
Landlords stand accused of turning a blind eye to rising service charges. Now retailers are starting to fight back.
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News
Premiere prize
The credit crunch seems to have missed Bury St Edmunds, the Suffolk market town that is the home of brewer Greene King.