All Property Week articles in 19 March 2004
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Rare share placing gives Brixton £68.5m of equity
Brixton has raised £68.5m of new equity from a very rare property company share placing while unveiling full-year results that surpassed those of its major rival Slough Estates.
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Consent recommended for Columbus Tower
Plans to build the second tallest tower in London, next to Canary Wharf, moved a step closer today after planning officers recommended giving consent.
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OFT shies away from licensing estate agents
Despite strong criticism for a lack of price competition and poor industry standards, the Office of Fair Trading has failed to impose compulsory licensing for estate agents.
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Cap & Reg ties up £500m leisure fund
Capital & Regional today completed the unification of its three existing leisure funds into the £500m X-Leisure fund.
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Catalyst Capital completes £50m Walsall centre sale
A Catalyst Capital-led consortium has sold The Saddlers Centre in Walsall for £50m.
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Tesco and Topland's £650m joint venture
Tesco today joined forces with Topland in a £650m property joint venture.
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British Land enters Canary Wharf battle
British Land has entered the bid battle for Canary Wharf Group by giving financial support to an improved offer from Morgan Stanley s Silvestor consortium.
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BID regulations announced
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has published a draft of the long awaited regulations for setting up Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the UK.
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Markets
Talk of the towns
Everyone knows shed agents are not a cosmopolitan bunch. So it was wholly appropriate that Slough Estates ' Lhr.com team chose to market the launch of the buildings on the North Feltham Trading Estate by inviting 40 local and central London industrial agents to admire the buildings while enjoying a ...
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Markets
Talk of the towns
Knight Frank is to open a commercial office in May by that much trodden route – headhunting staff from Chesterton . A year after Insignia Richard Ellis (now CB Richard Ellis ) poached four from Chesterton, Knight Frank attracted Neil Turley from its retail team to become an ...
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Professional
Serve you wrong
Office service charges are on the increase again and occupiers are starting to ask if they are getting value for their money.
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Markets
No longer an outsider
Having cut its teeth on northern out-of-town retail, Thornfield shifted south and into the centres for its second wave of development.
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Professional
The law made simple
Developer stumped by use change The message: developers should not presume they can rely on rights previously enjoyed by their land after the use is changed.The case: in McAdams Homes Ltd v Robinson on 19 January, the claimant, a residential property developer, had bought land previously used for a bakery ...
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Leeds practice launched
Michael Pudney and Richard Shuttleworth, two of the biggest names in retail and leisure agency in the north of England, have launched a niche practice in Leeds after quitting DTZ in January. The firm, Pudney Shuttleworth, is instructed on schemes including the Light and Brewery Wharf in Leeds, Centenary ...
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Insight
Value for money is the key
Tenants want serviced offices that meet their needs without hidden charges and mark-ups
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Markets
It's a small order
Swindon's mid-size sheds continue to struggle, but their smaller counterparts are flourishing. Christine Eade discovers that smaller is beautiful
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Inside parliament
Regeneration's EU breakthrough Draft proposals from the European Commission (EC) are set to reverse restrictions on so-called state aid and allow the UK government to pour more public funds into regeneration projects.The UK's Partnership Investment Programme was declared illegal by the EC five years ago. Gap funding from government to ...
