All Property Week articles in 14 October 2005 – Page 3
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Insight
Government is playing politics with Council Tax revaluation
Sir, The government’s decision to shelve the revaluation of houses for Council Tax band assessments is based on short-term electoral expediency (news, 23.09.05, p12).
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News
Investing on the continent doesn’t have to be taxing
Continental vehicles can be structured to lessen UK investors’ tax liability, says Melville Rodrigues
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Markets
Profits warning at City Lofts
City Lofts, the urban residential developer floated on AIM in December 2003, has joined the ranks of residential developers reporting ominous figures for 2005.
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News
City view: James Whitmore
Credit Suisse First Boston’s state-of-the-art auditorium was an exciting, educative and fun place to be last Thursday – and I bet you won’t hear that description too often about an investment bank’s presentation hall.
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News
Cinven cultivates Wyevale takeover
European venture capital firm backed by rebel shareholder Laxey
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Professional
Mediation option for service charge disputes
A mediation service is to be launched in November for landlords and tenants that find themselves embroiled in service charge disputes.
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Insight
A catalogue of innovations
A new headquarters for the Home Office (pictured) and a Chancerygate/Helical Bar scheme (pictured) scooped the big prizes at last week’s IAS/OAS awards, and Land Securities, ProLogis and Rosemound also won plaudits
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News
On the case
After last week’s IAS/OAS Awards at the Hilton hotel on London’s Park Lane, a vast throng gathered outside the nearby Punchbowl pub in Farm Street to celebrate or commiserate, and spread halfway across the road.
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Professional
Case news
Warren Gordon looks at a case involving mobile home dwellers’ claims to occupy green belt land, while Jonathan Ross reports on the use of a novel legal argument to deny a tenant compensation
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Insight
Munich captures cross-border zeitgeist
The Hilton was fully booked weeks ago. Big British beasts CB Richard Ellis, Savills and DTZ were there, and the best story was about Leo Noé and Vincent Tchenguiz vying for a 1bn portfolio.
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Markets
Capital’s investment
Despite doubts over office take-up and the residential market, Edinburgh City Council has teamed up with Mountgrange Capital to plan an ambitious mixed-use scheme.
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News
London developer buys central Glasgow development site
London-based developer Taylor Clark is to buy an office development site in Glasgow.
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News
Terrace Hill buys Eastbourne site for mixed-use scheme
AIM-listed developer Terrace Hill has acquired a 5.1 acre (2 ha) site in Eastbourne on the south coast for a £13m mixed-use scheme.
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Markets
Overseas investors buy East End site in time for Olympics
Dencora sells Silvertown industrial site for residential and commercial redevelopment
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Online
Managed business space
Disaster recovery space is a growing submarket for serviced office providers
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News
Morley to fund Reading’s tallest office building
PMB Holdings’ long-awaited Abbey Mill House to go ahead after £40m agreement is reached
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News
Buccleuch tunes into Tyne
The television studios of Tyne Tees TV are to make way for a mixed-use scheme after Scottish property company Buccleuch Property agreed to buy the site this week.
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News
BL granted permission for Canada Water site
British Land received permission from Southwark Council on Tuesday evening for its proposed mixed-use development on a 40 acre (16 ha) site at Canada Water in south-east London.
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Markets
Best foot forward
There are fears that the office market may be peaking in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but developers are seeking forward-funding for a spate of new schemes. Claer Barrett reports