All Property Week articles in 15 April 2011 – Page 3

  • Markets

    Small matters trouble Chester landlords

    15 April 2011

    Floor sizes of city’s historic building stock leaves surfeit of office space

  • Markets

    Widows shop in Chester

    15 April 2011

    Royal London Mutual Insurance Society has sold 37 and 41 Eastgate Street in Chester city centre to Scottish Widows Unit Funds for £12.35m, reflecting a net initial yield of 4.67%

  • Professional

    Property leaders cut into localism at CB Richard Ellis event

    15 April 2011

    Property leaders believe policy will ultimately stifle development

  • BRYAN CARSBERG
    Markets

    Carsberg takes on gazumpers

    15 April 2011

    Former OFT chief demands presale contracts with penalties

  • News

    Developers line up for Edinburgh’s Carltongate site

    15 April 2011

    Up to three developers are in the frame to rescue a stalled £300m development in Edinburgh city centre. Deloitte, the administrator to Caltongate’s previous owner Mountgrange, has ended talks to sell the 9 acre site to London-based developer Prism

  • Liverpool town hall
    Markets

    Council consolidation on the cards under new chief

    15 April 2011

    Developers in Liverpool could have the chance to pitch to the city council to build a new office headquarters for local authority staff if ideas being considered by the new chief executive, Ged Fitzgerald, come to fruition

  • News

    Prupim shops in Cardiff

    15 April 2011

    Prupim has bought a £67m Tesco superstore in Cardiff for the M G Secured Property Income Fund. The 150,000 sq ft store at Culverhouse Cross was bought in a 25-year sale and leaseback and is subject to annual Retail Prices Index-linked rent reviews. Prupim and GL Hearn advised M G, ...

  • News

    Carter Jonas and Jeffersons in Cambridge merger

    15 April 2011

    Carter Jonas is to take over Cambridge-based agency Jeffersons, in a bid to grow the commercial business across the eastern region

  • News

    Cafe Rwanda

    15 April 2011

    You might think central London needs another coffee shop like a hole in the head, but the latest entrant is a little more interesting than the hot brown water merchants

  • News

    DevSecs’ Notting Hill buy

    15 April 2011

    Development Securities is close to buying a retail and office block in for £52m Notting Hill in west London. Property Week understands that DevSecs has exchanged contracts with owners William Pears Group and LaSalle Investment Management to buy the 40,000 sq ft Newcombe House for £52m, reflecting a yield of ...

  • Millenium Bridge
    News

    Mellor challenges ‘mugs’ to buy docks

    15 April 2011

    F C Reit and Area market St Katharine Docks with potential for development

  • News

    Receivers called in at Hayes Business Park

    15 April 2011

    Knight Frank pair appointed receivers as owner defaults on £57m loan

  • News

    Conspiracy and bugging forgotten as Frontier trio settle

    15 April 2011

    Ray Palmer, Adam Eldred and Andrew Crowther split business amicably

  • Budapest melalouise
    Professional

    Notts students Wing it to Budapest

    15 April 2011

    Anyone taking a property course at Nottingham Trent University has a ready-made network of friends in central Europe. That network helped 44 postgraduate students who carried out a mock appraisal in Budapest (pictured) between 21 and 25 March.

  • News

    Brucie’s buffer

    15 April 2011

    I see from the first issue of Hammerson’s Open Plan e-newsletter that in his first job as a car washer, London investment portfolio director John Mulqueen used to buff up Bruce Forsyth’s Rolls-Royce. Have any other readers have performed services for celebrities? Please let me know.

  • News

    Brookland’s Hussain chairs new CMBS committee

    15 April 2011

    Commercial real estate finance body the CRE Finance Council, has set up a commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) committee to promote a new operating framework for CMBS transactions

  • News

    Tesco and British Land refinance Leicester mall

    15 April 2011

    The Tesco British Land Property Partnership, the 50:50 joint venture between British Land and Tesco, has refinanced its 300,000 sq ft Beaumont Leys Shopping Centre in Leicester

  • Marine Point
    Markets

    Neptune in its element at New Brighton scheme

    15 April 2011

    Developer completes spate of lettings at waterfront scheme

  • News

    Parlous Portugal’s commercial break

    15 April 2011

    Total returns in 2010 reach three-year best, but experts warn stability will not last

  • Scott Abbey Footlocker
    Markets

    Foot Locker boss kickstarts retailer resources hub

    15 April 2011

    The fear among retail property managers whose companies plan international expansion is that they will be defeated by one arcane question when making property presentations before their boards of directors. A director will ask the one awkward question about local shopping habits that make property managers look ill prepared. On ...