All Property Week articles in 16 November 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Commercial rents set to 'ease'

    2007-11-16T09:26:00Z

    Rises in commercial property rents look set to ease off in the coming months as a result of increasing economic uncertainty, according to a survey of surveyors. Financial Times

  • News

    Tighter contracts mooted for housebuilders

    2007-11-16T09:25:00Z

    Property developers would be forced to speed up the delivery of new homes built on former public land under contracts being considered by housing minister Yvette Cooper. Financial Times

  • News

    Suitors line up as Rock leanding hits £25bn

    2007-11-16T09:24:00Z

    Northern Rock is expecting to receive between six and eight proposals – most priced aggressively low – for buying all or some of the stricken bank. Financial Tiems, Daily Telegraph, Independnet, Guardian

  • Online

    Prupim makes first Belgian buy and appoints new development manager

    2007-11-16T09:18:00Z

    Prupim has bought the long leasehold to a 139,932 sq ft office building in Brussels for €39m (£28m).

  • On the map: Nelson Mandela cut the ribbon at the opening of Soweto’s largest shopping mall to date
    Insight

    Talk of the township

    16 November 2007

    A new 2m sq ft shopping mall in Soweto signals the township’s growing importance as a retail destination.

  • News

    Striker struck off

    16 November 2007

    Rokeby Developments boss Adrian Goodall got rather hacked off by a boy racer revving up his Ferrari outside the Malmaison where he was entertaining guests.

  • News

    Sk:n

    16 November 2007

    Sk:n, the cosmetic skin and body clinic, is set to roll out its clinics. It has just signed in the City of London for a 2,985 sq ft store at 50 London Wall on a 15-year lease at £72,500 a year. It has hired Ashwell Rogers, Cushman & Wakefield, Culverwell ...

  • Professional

    Security of tenure

    16 November 2007

    Question: I am granting a commercial lease and do not want to give security of tenure to my prospective tenant. What type of declaration do I need before completing the lease?

  • So good : Soweto has emerged as a community in which wealthy blacks who live in ‘matchbox’ houses are now aspiring to suburban homes
    Insight

    Township revolution

    16 November 2007

    The township of Soweto shows that prosperity can emerge from a violent and poverty-stricken past.

  • LandSecs’ gentry : Francis Salway hatched the split with chairman Paul Myners
    News

    ‘We have worked together. We are as one’

    16 November 2007

    Chief executive Francis Salway reveals to James Whitmore why he is splitting up Land Securities

  • Natasha Kaplinsky
    Insight

    Strictly offices

    16 November 2007

    Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky charmed the office development world elite at the first-ever Office Development Awards at London’s Grosvenor Marriott last month.

  • News

    Reubens secure Millbank tenant

    16 November 2007

    Hellman & Friedman Investors Europe is moving into the 7,600 sq ft penthouse at the Reuben brothers’ TST Millbank Tower on the Thames.

  • News

    Three pop in to Mersey Metquarter

    16 November 2007

    The New owners of the Metquarter shopping centre in Liverpool have begun an asset management shake-up at the 135,600 sq ft scheme.

  • Pick up the pieces: when they joined M&S, Constantine (right) and Dyson inherited a property strategy in disarray
    Insight

    Marks and Parks

    16 November 2007

    Marks & Spencer finance chief Ian Dyson and property chief Clem Constantine tell Christine Eade the full story behind the retailer’s property strategy, unveiled to the City last week.

  • News

    Orchard picks Manc scheme

    16 November 2007

    Orchard Street Investment Management has agreed to forward purchase Wilson Bowden’s Belvedere House in Manchester city centre for £50m.

  • Markets

    Laying it on the line

    16 November 2007

    The development pipeline in the Thames Gateway has almost doubled in the last two years, GVA Grimley’s latest research shows.

  • Insight

    LandSecs will regret three-way split

    16 November 2007

    9/11, the arrival of REITs and the credit crunch are the biggest property news ‘events’ of this decade. This week, the last two combined to create the fourth: the break-up after 63 years of the UK’s flagship property company, Land Securities . The plan is to create office, retail and ...

  • News

    Kodak Knowsley site snapped up

    16 November 2007

    Kodak has sold the long leasehold of its 37 acre factory site in Knowsley, near Liverpool, to Acorn Developments.

  • News

    IAF Securities launches IPD-linked investment product

    16 November 2007

    A new investment product has been launched allowing private investors to profit from returns linked to the Investment Property Databank UK Annual Index.

  • News

    Howay the lads

    16 November 2007

    The north-east derby is a passionate affair, as last weekend’s draw between Newcastle United and Sunderland showed.