All Property Week articles in 16 October 2009 – Page 8
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News
Risanamento rescue plan under fire
Milan prosecutors criticised a rescue plan for Risanamento, ahead of the Italian real estate company’s bankruptcy hearing this week
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Markets
And finally...
When big-ticket names are billed to open a development, it is always nervewracking for the organisers
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Markets
And finally … now and then
Next month it will be 20 years since Thames Valley agent Roger Hicks set up Hicks Baker with Nigel Baker. The firm has grown from five to 18 — and includes one of the few female Thames Valley agents, Fiona Brownfoot
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Professional
Mortgage fraud expected to rise
Law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert warns that solicitors and valuers are facing an influx of mortgage fraud claims
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News
Mazars expands Manchester office
Accountancy firm Mazars has taken a second floor, of 5,800 sq ft, at the Lexicon building on Manchester’s Mount Street to house staff after merging with Chadwick at the end of September
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Prologis Euro Properties’ new loan
Prologis European Properties (PEPR) has secured a five-year loan of around €48m from Helaba (Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen) in two tranches of €32.5m and €15.5m to refinance outstanding debt
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News
Eurex property futures improve
Trading of property futures on the Eurex exchange picked up significantly in September.
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Markets
Planning’s new era
Scotland is settling into a planning regime that requires developers to consult local communities and gives local authorities more enforcement powers. The 266 acre Forth Ports regeneration scheme at Leith Docks in Edinburgh is one of the first projects to go through the new system. David Hatcher asked key Scotland ...
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West End occupiers on the move
West End occupiers are considering relocations to take advantage of historically low rents in London
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Rettie's Glasgow West End tie-up
Scottish residential property company Rettie & Co has formed a partnership with Maitland Walker in the West End of Glasgow
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Professional
Emissions trading 'more sustainable'
Sustainability experts have welcomed government changes to the Carbon Reduction Commitment
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News
Millennium Dome lease sold
Quintain and Lend Lease Europe have sold the share capital in Meridian Delta Dome, the company that holds the Millennium Dome’s 999-year lease, for £24m to Trinity College, Cambridge .
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Professional
Disability directive under fire
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) and tenant eviction service Landlord Assist say the European Union’s proposed equal treatment directive could force UK residential landlords to provide disabled access, even if none of their tenants have disabilities
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Online
Severn Trent dilutes property holdings
Utility giant prepares 200 sites for sale and tenders for facilities and property management services
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Professional
School's out as funding shortfall threatens developments
Educational establishments need to develop, but will have to be inventive if they want to fund it
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Professional
Planners: local development frameworks 'don't work'
They are slow, eat up huge amounts of resources, and are not flexible enough. That was the verdict last week from Cushman & Wakefield and the Town and Country Planning Association on local development frameworks, which were introduced by the government five years ago
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Markets
Deal time for Wolfson in Newbury
Engineering company Wolfson Microelectronics has signed an 11-year lease for 17,300 sq ft at Derby House in Newbury. The “headline” rent of £17/sq ft equates to £15/sq ft when incentives are factored in
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News
Davies on voyage to NewRiver
Mark Davies, the chief financial and operating officer of Exemplar Properties, is leaving to join Halladale founder David Lockhart’s new company, NewRiver Capital
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Markets
Databank: RICS housing survey
If the latest RICS Housing Market Survey is to be believed, the rebound in residential property is likely to continue for at least the next few months