All Property Week articles in 15 November 2002
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Rent warning prompts Great Portland share slump
Shares in London property investor Great Portland Estates dropped nearly 3% this morning to 213.5p after the company predicted rents would continue to fall over the next six months.
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Gerald Ronson named Leisure Property Personality of the Year
The founder and chairman of leisure group Heron International, Gerald Ronson, was named Leisure Property Personality of the Year at the 2002 LPF Leisure Property awards last night.
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C&W reassures on lease liability
Shares in ailing telecoms firm Cable & Wireless leapt 10% this morning after the company issued figures that showed its US lease commitments would not prove as expensive as analysts feared.
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Peel to buy £185m ports operator
Lancashire-based property company Peel Holdings today announced plans to buy struggling ports operator Clydeport in a deal worth nearly £185m.
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Liverpool regeneration developers chosen
David McLean and Tesco have been selected as preferred developers for a 20 ha (50 acre) mixed-use regeneration scheme in one of Liverpool’s most run down areas.
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Brentford stadium plans released
Developers behind proposals for a new stadium in Brentford in West London today stepped up the pressure on the Strategic Rail Authority to sell them the site by releasing images of the proposed scheme.
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Insight
Professionals under pressure
With their professional ethics called into question and the market for rent reviews waning, surveyors are finding their integrity and guaranteed fee income are starting to wobble.
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Markets
Research: The only way is up
There may be clouds hanging over the UK property market, but Kent is enjoying sunny spells, with rents still going up.
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Markets
Offices: The road to recovery
Would you pay £1m for an empty office in Kent? We report on the secret world of disaster recovery
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Professional
Seeking a new lease of life
The dispute between Homebase and Allied Dunbar Assurance, which was in the news last week, raises questions about subletting under the new commercial lease code.
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Insight
Labour's speech therapy
The Queen's Speech held plenty for the property industry, right down to the appetising prospect of 24-hour drinking.
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Markets
Talk of the Towns: Kent
10,000 new jobs ... new home for local authority ... the joys of Spring ... KDG appointment ... Fremlin funding ... breast cancer awareness ...
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Insight
Valuation standards are high, and the industry does not need more regulation
Fundamentals are sound and increased interference is not necessary
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News
Morgan Stanley takes Tyco Heathrow shed
Morgan Stanley is to take an assignment of the largest building at Brixton's Heathrow Corporate Park.
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News
Slough site goes for treble its guide
Developer buys detached house and plot next door for £266,000
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Lowy readies fund options
Frank Lowy, chairman of Australian developer Westfield Holdings, said this week that the company was 'actively' preparing a range of options to fund its UK development programme.
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Rent falls put squeeze on London landlords
Latest deals reveal downward pressure on values at top schemes across the capital
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Express hotel for Stansted
Kew Green Hotels, the private hotel operator, is to open a 250-bedroom Holiday Inn Express hotel at Stansted airport in Essex.