All Property Week articles in 18 November 2005
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Online
Reading businesses vote in favour of BID
Reading will be home to the first business improvement district (BID) outside London in the south-east of England after businesses in the area voted in favour of setting up the scheme.
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MWB sells Glasgow hotel
Marylebone Warwick Balfour has sold the freehold interest in its five-star hotel in Argyle Street, Glasgow, to the WG Mitchell Group, for £52.5m in cash.
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News
Victoria stalls
More than 500 guests descended on Victoria in London for the lavish launch of Land Securities’ Cardinal Place last Thursday – and what a night it turned out to be.
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Royal & SunAlliance
Royal & SunAlliance is to sell and lease back its 390,000 sq ft (35,302 sq m), 17-storey ‘Sandcastle’ building in Liverpool city centre. The selling price is £36m, and the financial adviser will lease back two-thirds of the space at £5m a year – a yield of 8.75%. GVA Grimley ...
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NewsTchibo signs to open in Sainsbury’s stores
Concessions deal is part of four-pronged expansion in UK
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MarketsNorth poll
An audit of northern housebuilding shows that standards need to rise. CABE chief executive Richard Simmons explains
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Insight
Networkers
Commercial property consultancy Edwin Hill celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Its Heathrow/M25 West office opened in 1994, providing agency and professional services. It also has offices in Potters Bar, Dartford, London, Birmingham and Manchester.
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Stuart Watson gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Jonathan Brasse gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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MarketsThe pub landlord
Through his firm Oracle, Epsom-based David Burke has moved from pub operator to property developer in just five years.
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Markets
New technical space planned at Kent Science Park
An application is set to be submitted for at least 32,000 sq ft (2,972 sq m) of technical and laboratory space at Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne.
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Jack Petche
Entrepreneur Jack Petchey won the top prize – a Smart car – in a raffle held at a property industry charity dinner earlier this month. Organised by Frogmore with support from Petchey himself, the dinner was in aid of the Willow Foundation. Set up by ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson, ...
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A syndicate of private investors
A syndicate of private investors has spent £4.5m on the freehold interest in Newport ’s most prominent high-street bank. The price reflects a net initial yield of 5.46%. The property is let to Lloyds TSB until 2015 at £260,000 a year, and is at the junction of Commercial Street ...
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InsightHell for leather
Harsh trading conditions have knocked the stuffing out of furniture retailers Courts, Furnitureland and Klaussner, leaving empty units on retail parks.
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NewsGenesis leaves one stone unturned
Moray-based developer Genesis Properties has changed the design of its 16-home development in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs national park in Perthshire because of fairies.
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MarketsFish and ships
Canterbury council is determined to preserve Whitstable as a working port. Jonathan Brasse reports
