All Property Week articles in 18 October 2013 – Page 6
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News
Far East meets west in Olympic Park and Royal Docks
First occupiers announced at Asian Business Port, while plans unveiled for Press and Broadcast Centres
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Markets
Tour de France will be tour de force of Yorkshire property
The eyes of the world will be on Yorkshire for two days next year when god’s own county hosts the grand départ of the Tour de France.
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Professional
Need to know: cross-party group’s Green Deal gripes
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment called for an urgent review of the Green Deal and accompanying Energy Companies Obligation last week.
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News
Harwood picks up surplus Co-op retail
The Co-operative Group has has sold a £120m property portfolio in an effort to offset losses made by its banking arm and restructure £1.5bn of debt.
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Insight
Haymarket sale completes Hammersmith exit
Haymarket has sold 22 Bute Gardens and 11-17 Wolverton Gardens in Hammersmith, completing its exit away from the area.
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News
Verdion is cock-a-HOOPP at investment partnership
Receiving the backing of a $47.4bn pension fund is the dream ticket for most developers and property companies.
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News
Colliers industrial man goes client side
Richard Lawrence, a director in Colliers International’s logistics and industrial team, is to join his client of 15 years, IM Properties, as development director, based in Birmingham.
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Professional
Be clear on deposits or risk losing out
The welcome signs of an improving market at long last are prompting investors to look at the structure of the deals they are putting forward.
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Insight
Royal Mail float needs to deliver clawback
Modern corporate asset stripping was essentially invented by British entrepreneurs such as Jim Slater and James Goldsmith in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Markets
Leeds City Council makes Merrion with huge prelet
Deal with Town Centre Securities is city’s largest in 20 years. David Hatcher reports
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Professional
People moves: Carter Jonas, Savills, Colliers International and more...
Tuffin Ferraby Taylor the independent building consultancy, has made three appointments.
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Professional
DTZ launches career drive for women
Initiative aims to increase equality at senior level. Sarah Townsend reports
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Insight
Help to Buy without ‘help to build’ is potty policy
House prices are as unaffordably high as at the top of the 2007 boom across wide swathes of southern England, not just Bankerland in Knightsbridge and Notting Hill.
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News
Buckingham Gates
Buckingham Gates: the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation is under offer to take around 14,000 sq ft on the fifth floor at Land Securities’ 11-storey 62 Buckingham Gate.
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News
Birmingham’s Grand rebrand
Historic hotel to be operated as Hilton Doubletree after £30m refurbishment by owner Hortons’ Estate
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Professional
The Big Think
Built environment experts discuss Farrell review. Mike Phillips reports. Photographs by Jon Cardwell
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News
Legal & General banks on pair of Bristol offices
Legal & General has bought a 108,049 sq ft Bristol waterfront office scheme from Standard Life Investments for around £20m, reflecting a yield of around 10%.
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Professional
Binding covenant is bad news for Goodman
The message: A positive covenant may burden successors
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News
Germans back Segro’s Canadian club venture
Segro and the Public Section Pension Investment have secured €428m of funding for their €2bn European joint venture from a trio of German banks.
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Professional
Six tips to embrace diversity and avoid insanity
Attending the Women’s Business Forum in London this week reiterated to me how far we have come in understanding why a diverse workforce is imperative for successful companies.