All Property Week articles in 17 November 2006 – Page 4
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News
City view: James Whitmore
The quoted property sector has an obvious vacancy for a £2bn central London office REIT that needs filling.
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Insight
Charity: we were first
With reference to the recent story, ‘Protego and Cazenove put charity first’ (finance, 03.11.06), I would like to point out that the Charities Property Fund was the first property common investment fund (CIF) designed for all charities in England and Wales.
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ProfessionalCase news
Jonathan Ross highlights the importance of detailed evidence in dilapidation claims while Warren Gordon reports on a Brighton homeowner’s successful right-of-light appeal
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NewsVictory for campaign with rogues run out of town
Government to launch consumer bill promising redress for the public
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Markets
Kelly to call for Thames Gateway design offensive
Communities secretary to unveil new housing policy at next week’s forum
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ProfessionalCalderbank offers
Question: I am acting for a landlord on a lease renewal and an agreement seems unlikely. My client has asked me to send a Calderbank offer to settle. Is this a good idea and are there any pitfalls?
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Markets
Calas Huddersfield win
Cala Group has won detailed planning permission for a residential scheme on one of the largest available brownfield sites in West Yorkshire.
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News
Head butt of jokes
Mark Williams, the highly regarded head of retail at DTZ, knew it would be a bad move to seat himself in the front row at Modus Properties’ comedy night at last week’s British Council of Shopping Centres annual conference in Manchester.
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News
Drivers Jonas searches for British Film set
Drivers Jonas is searching for a new national film centre for the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Professional
How to go green and stay in the black
Recycling is the affordable and responsible answer to sustainable construction, says Jo Stocks
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News
Birmingham’s blockbusters
British Land and Abstract Securities seal new city centre office schemes worth £220m
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Professional
Membership club set up for BIDs
A membership organisation for business improvement districts called British BIDs was launched last week by the British Urban Regeneration Association and consultant Partnership Solutions.
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News
Buller’s Bee Bee charges in Corby
Alfred Buller’s Bee Bee Developments is to buy Wilson Bowden’s Centrix Park site in Corby.
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NewsHorny beast
I ran a story recently about Robert Maxted of Pillar, Chesterfield and now Ardwood fame, who was going buffalo shooting in Tanzania.
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Markets
Base rate rise is ‘dangerous’ for new homes
The Bank of England’s 0.25% base rate rise last week to a five-year high of 5% drew a mixed response from the residential sector.
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News
Green light at Barking
Barking Riverside – the largest housing-led scheme in the Thames Gateway – was poised to get the green light this week following a recommendation to grant outline planning consent.
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News
Crest rebuffs Bank of Scotland and West Coast
Crest Nicholson, the UK developer and housebuilder that fought off a bid approach from Heron Corporation last year, has rejected an offer from Bank of Scotland Corporate and Sir Tom Hunter’s West Coast Capital.
