All Property Week articles in 19 July 2013 – Page 7
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Markets
LandSecs keeps it exclusive at Exeter bus station scheme
Developer extends agreement with council to create restaurant quarter.
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Insight
We must build our way out of this housing crisis
House prices are too high all over Britain and the government’s Help to Buy could soon become “Help to Boom and Bust” - as house prices surge again in the south of England.
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Markets
Savills to market flats at Bristol hospital site
Savills has been appointed by City & Country to market flats at the grade II-listed former Bristol General Hospital.
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Markets
Marston’s plan brewing for next round of pubs
Work begins next month on Marston’s newest pub, to be built at the Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare.
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News
Cap & Reg books 'modest' loss on two mall sales
Capital Regional’s Mall Fund has sold two shopping centres “at a modest discount” to book value for a combined total of £152.5m, ahead of refinancing £383m of CMBS (commercial mortgage-backed securities) debt.
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Insight
Debt fuels second-quarter deals bonanza
nvestment transaction volumes reached a two-year high in the second quarter of 2013, indicating a continued cautious recovery in the market both inside and outside the capital.Lambert Smith Hampton’s UK Investment Trends report shows transaction volumes reached £8.24bn in the second quarter, up 2% on the figure for the first ...
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News
KidZania blazes into Westfield
KidZania, the children’s educational and entertainment operator, will open its first site in the UK and northern Europe at Westfield London, in White City.
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News
James Bell's TV cash bond
Ludgate spied Nash Bond surveyor James Bell on last Saturday’s Million Pound Drop.
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Markets
Need to know … Bath homes in on MoD sites
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence sold three office schemes in Bath for conversion to residential.
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News
Roll up to roast some bankers
Last week, world-renowned chef Heston Blumenthal devised a bespoke menu for the property industry.
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Markets
Bakers Quay languishes while Lock Warehouse flats sell at Gloucester Docks
The Queen toured Gloucester Quays to see Peel Holdings’ newly opened designer outlet in 2009.
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Professional
Attempts to sidestep mind-boggling office-to-resi regime may backfire
I don’t know how I would begin to describe to him the potential for exploitation of this latest measure of a government hell bent on “simplifying” the planning system.
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Markets
Willmott Dixon asks masses to Be:here
Contractor-developer targets regional centres in 5,000 homes plan. Nick Johnstone reports
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News
Argent's wheeler dealer
Nick Searl: he’s a developer, tweeter, and all-round sunglasses-wearing cool dude with grey hair.
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News
Manchester’s Airport City hits turbulence
Controversy erupted this week over the partner selection for the £650m Manchester Airport City scheme, as Argent and Carillion - backed by a Chinese bank - drew close to becoming the preferred development consortium.
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News
Select committee calls for regulation of cowboy agents
A government committee has called for an overhaul of the legislation governing privaterented housing to raise standards in the sector.
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Markets
Bristol agents drive congestion debate
Fears that charge for motorists could force occupiers out of centre.
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Markets
Private renters’ champion takes on rip-off agents
Hannah Brenton gets the lowdown on John Healey’s bill to regulate residential agents
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Markets
Q+A: Aerohub @ Newquay’s Miles Carden
It is four years since Cornwall Council bought surplus land at RAF St Mawgan, next to Newquay airport, and two years since the land became an enterprise zone that gives concessions on business rates.