All Property Week articles in 15 July 2011
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OnlineOFT examines JLL/King Sturge deal
The Office of Fair Trade is reviewing Jones Lang LaSalle’s merger with King Sturge and whether it could ultimately create a lessening of competition within the marketplace.
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OnlineAegis's 600-person Manchester call centre "just the start"
Indian business outsourcing giant Aegis says its new Manchester call centre could employ “several thousand people” in the coming years, TheBusinessDesk.com reported today.
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Friday Bulletin: Olympics 2012 Extravaganza
Property Week’s editor-in-chief Giles Barrie and group production director Samantha Warrington guide you through the Olympics 2012 special being launched today.
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NewsStarwood has Shanghai sojourn
Global hotel firm Starwood Hotels & Resorts also moved its senior executives to Asia last month – albeit temporarily – and would consider a listing on the Chinese Stock Exchange
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Insight
Valuation's "single, rather watery umbrella"
I have read, with interest, the exchanges between Jerry Schurder, a member of the RICS Rating Panel but writing in a personal capacity and Paul Sanderson, Director of Professional Services at the Valuation Office Agency, on the subject of disclosure of evidence by the Agency in rating appeals.
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NewsWidows submits Sheffield retail plan
Sheffield’s city centre is poised to undergo a retail revamp as Scottish Widows Investment Partnership’s (SWIP) UK Property Trust today submitted plans for its scheme at the Moor
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OnlineNorwood Punch
Lord Triesman was outspoken on FIFA and Qatar at the annual Norwood Property Lunch and Property Awards
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New planning regime is nigh
The National Planning Policy Framework will create a “window of opportunity” for developers to gain planning consent for controversial schemes, planners said this week
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InsightMeanwhile London: A Royal Welcome
Property Week, the mayor of London and the London Borough of Newham’s Meanwhile London competition is moving full steam ahead towards completion in time for the 2012 Olympics
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MarketsQ+A: Lok’n Store turns a page with Saracen
Earlier this month self-storage company Lok’n Store bought Saracen Data Store, a document-storage company, for £4m
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NewsJoint venture
In the property wedding of the year James Darkins has married Jane Hamilton. Darkins, 54, is managing director of global property at Henderson Global Investors, and Hamilton, 55, is European head of corporate real estate at HSBC.They tied the knot at the Swan Hotel in Southwold, Suffolk. Darkins hails from ...
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LaSalle in play for JER
LaSalle Investment Management is in exclusive talks to take over JER Partners’ European and private equity real estate funds business
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InsightLondon remains the highlight in a subdued market
Prime property yields were unchanged in June for the fifth month in a row, as the market remained subdued
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MarketsHenderson parks in Warwick
Henderson Global Investors has bought three neighbouring car dealerships on Europa Way in Warwick from Axa Real Estate Investment Managers. It paid £7.5m, reflecting a 6.8% yield. The dealerships are let to Sytner Group and are branded BMW, Volvo and Sytner Specialist Cars. The buildings total 38,000 sq ft on ...
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Serviced office wedding hell
An email from officebroker.com screams: “Royal Wedding Puts Brakes On Central London Office Demand But Outlook Is Still Positive”. Turns out Wills and Kate getting hitched and the subsequent national day off resulted in a 12% year-on-year drop in the number of new businesses moving into serviced office space in ...
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Half-time Sturge surge
What better way to put the merger between King Sturge and Jones Lang LaSalle to the test, than to monitor the performance of the combined firms’ netball teams?
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Movember Growth
Growth industry: prostate charity Movember has grown itself a new European headquarters in London’s Clerkenwell
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OnlineGreen light for Hastings office scheme
East Sussex economic development company Sea Space has received planning permission for a 64,000 sq ft office and retail scheme in Hastings.
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Great Portland leads Royal Mail's Rathbone Place race
Great Portland Estates is close to placing under offer the Royal Mail’s Western District Office, a large development site that has long been coveted by developers
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NewsHolland Park School resi plan makes the grade
One of central London’s most eagerly anticipated luxury housing schemes – the redevelopment of Holland Park School in Campden Hill – has been granted planning permission
