All Property Week articles in 17 December 2010 – Page 3
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News
Cannon Estates shoots and scores
Praedia Investments and property investor Simon Marks have formed Cannon Estates, which has £100m of equity to invest in London
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Markets
Cardiff leisure scheme succumbs to Millennium bug
Cinema complex with receiver as owner’s bank debt hits £29m
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Professional
And finally … building bridges
It is not widely known that 70% of the workers who built Waterloo Bridge during World War II were women and for many years it was nicknamed the “ladies’ bridge”
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News
Livingstones say bon voyage to Waterfront
The Livingstone brothers are in talks to sell one of the jewels of their property empire, the Victoria and Albert Waterfront in Capetown, South Africa, for RND10bn (£928m)
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News
Frontier founders claim conspiracy in board dispute
The particulars of a High Court claim by the owners of Frontier Estates against co-owner Ray Palmer and two directors became public this week
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News
Christmas comes early in form of five new brands for Bluewater
Five retailers have opened at Bluewater in Kent in time for Christmas
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Markets
Häagen-Dazs scoops in Bluewater
Ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs opened its second UK store last week
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Markets
Coalition rail policy blows Wales’s fuse
Transport secretary signals that electrification of Welsh line is too expensive
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News
Localism bill leaves more question marks
Property industry awaits details on planning and development process
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News
Metquarter resigns LK Bennett
LK Bennett has signed an extended 10-year lease to relocate to a new unit at the Metquarter in Liverpool
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Professional
Save energy behind closed doors
Campaign encourages landlords and retailers to co-operate
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News
The fight before christmas
Simon Property Group, the giant US REIT and the world’s largest owner of shopping centres, fired a shot across the bows of the UK listed property sector on Wednesday with an indicative £2.9bn bid for Capital Shopping Centres (CSC)
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Markets
Retailers on the move as St David’s becomes Goliath
Zone A rents falling on established Cardiff patches
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News
Bidders blitz B&B loan book
Bids were due to be submitted on Friday for a £500m UK property loan portfolio that includes a £150m loan secured against the Ritz hotel on London’s Piccadilly
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News
Databank: property still praying for bank lending
The UK property market produced a total return of 13.5% in the first 11 months of the year and several companies managed to raise additional capital and stabilise their balance sheets
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Markets
Bank settles behind new Chinese walls
After investing £14m in the fit-out its new City of London headquarters, Bank of China finally moved into the 115,000 sq ft building this month
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News
To baldly go where no men have gone before
To the Office Agents Society annual dinner, where stand-up comedian Terry Alderton went down a storm
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Professional
The road to hotel is paved with bad intentions
The message: Open, unforced use of a road for 20 years without the owner’s consent can establish a legal right
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Insight
It’s back to the drawing board as no one does what Simon says
Wow. Just when it looked like the war between Simon Property Group and Capital Shopping Centres (CSC) was phoney, out of the blue Simon on Wednesday morning slapped an indicative £2.9bn cash bid for CSC on the table, which was rejected later that afternoon for being too low
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News
Retailers take Spinningfields Avenue
A new Calvin Klein concept and Ted Baker Passion are to take units at Manchester’s Spinningfields