All Property Week articles in 17 February 2006 – Page 3

  • Markets

    Developer CTP St James

    17 February 2006

    Developer CTP St James has submitted a planning application for 3 St Paul's Place, Sheffield. The 85,000 sq ft (7,896 sq m) office block will be part of the £130m Heart of the City project. The project has already received planning permission for another office block, casino and car park.

  • Professional

    Diary of... a council property director

    17 February 2006

    Charles Coats, head of property services at Gloucestershire County Council, takes us through his week

  • Markets

    Heart's content

    17 February 2006

    Developer O&H hopes to bring new blood to Walton-on-Thames with its retail-led scheme, the Heart. Christine Eade checks the town's pulse

  • Insight

    Property Week's Sheds conference

    17 February 2006

    Property Week's first Sheds conference attracted 850 developers, investors, occupiers and advisers to the five-star Celtic Manor Resort near Newport last week. From ProLogis to Prudential, from Teesland IOG to Travis Perkins, they came to debate the future of industrial and distribution property. Over the next four pages, Jonathan Brasse ...

  • News

    Yield slip leads to tougher lending conditions

    17 February 2006

    The further yields fall, the tougher the property lending market becomes.

  • News

    Israeli and London groups to float European company

    17 February 2006

    Two big Israeli investment groups have teamed up with a London-based hedge fund manager to float a central and eastern European property company on AIM.

  • News

    City view: James Whitmore

    17 February 2006

    Chief executive Stephen Hester's decision to increase the frequency of British Land's financial results from half-yearly to quarterly has paid off handsomely.

  • Markets

    Explore Living makes debut near Chunnel link

    17 February 2006

    Laing O'Rourke's one-year-old housebuilding company Explore Living has secured its first residential development.

  • News

    Legal uncertainty will lead to further SIPP chaos

    17 February 2006

    What will happen to transactions that spill over into the post-A-Day regime?

  • Markets

    Gear change

    17 February 2006

    The aerodrome that is home to Top Gear and was the birthplace of budget air travel could soon be a leading example of an eco-friendly community.

  • Professional

    Case news

    17 February 2006

    Jonathan Ross reports on how KPMG failed to exercise a break in its lease, while Warren Gordon looks at a couple's fight against covenants preventing them building on their property

  • News

    DIFA buys Euro sites

    17 February 2006

    German bank DIFA has acquired ¤177m (£121m) of European property for its open-ended property fund DIFA-Grund.

  • Insight

    The government needs to develop business sense

    17 February 2006

    The investor's chronicle, with Matthew Oakeshott

  • News

    Poundland and M&S chase budget clothing stores

    17 February 2006

    Retailers including Poundland and Marks & Spencer Simply Food are to bid for the stores of the collapsed 373-strong QS/Be-Wise budget clothing chain.

  • News

    British Land

    17 February 2006

    British Land is in talks to sell the 550,000 sq ft (51,096 sq m) Plantation Place to private Irish investors for more than £500m. The group, which is understood to be led by Dublin-based solicitor Brian O'Donnell, has bid more than £510m for the office development. O'Donnell acquired the ...

  • News

    Britannia to sell surplus high street branches

    17 February 2006

    Britannia Building Society is to sell 30 surplus high street branches. The sale has been prompted by Britannia's acquisition of 97 Bristol & West branches through buying the bank for £150m from Bank of Ireland last September. Britannia pledged to keep open all branches that were more than a mile ...

  • News

    Hammerson offers lifeline to B&Q's Nottingham store

    17 February 2006

    Hammerson has made an offer to help B&Q rescue its store in Nottingham.

  • News

    Surrey + London boroughs south

    17 February 2006

    Council to remain in Kingston after Woking deal collapses Aviator Park off to a flying start The market in minutes Department war Guildford resets Gear change Heart's content

  • News

    Fun, games and a shed load of booze

    17 February 2006

    There is nothing like a big conference to showcase the ‘work hard, play hard' ethic that makes the property industry so much fun.

  • Markets

    A new domesday book

    17 February 2006

    A government taskforce is to draw up a list of surplus public sector land to sell off for private residential development. But housebuilders are questioning its ability to deliver.