All Property Week articles in 19 March 2004 – Page 2
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Markets
... industrial stays resilient
'When a site or investment comes up everyone goes mad for it,' says Melinda Cross, partner at Uxbridge-based commercial partnership Jansons. 'Everyone seems to want west London and everyone seems to want industrial.' The frenzy to secure ownership of industrial property continues despite sluggish demand from occupiers, especially at the ...
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News
Investor hunger for property remains
PrimePitch/Property Week survey shows half of respondents still optimistic
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News
Tesco wins race for huge Midlands shed
Supermarket to take 600,000 sq ft at Daventry after bidding battle
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Professional
VOA lets occupiers off the hook
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) is not using its powers to fine occupiers that fail to provide rental information, according to surveyor Gerald Eve. The information, to be returned on forms sent out by the VOA, is used to set new business rates.The VOA was given powers to levy fines ...
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Professional
Too good to be true usually is
Check that insurance queries are satisfied before closing a deal
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News
Peel's Salford plan given the go-ahead
Peel Holdings has received planning consent for a large mixed-use development at Salford Quays in the Greater Manchester. The Manchester-based property group will develop a 64,000 sq ft (5,950 sq m) office building and 194 flats in two blocks of nine and 20 storeys next to Erie Basin at ...
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News
Knight Frank starts occupier initiative
City office star Baker to lead new drive in bid to head off rival firms
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Markets
Offices fragile …
The west London office market's recovery looks patchy, while investors are clamouring for sheds, despite low occupancy levels.
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News
Pillar offloads leisure to focus on retail parks and offices
Pillar Property THIS WEEK completed the sale of two leisure schemes for £171m to concentrate on its core business of retail parks and city office holdings. The company has sold the freehold of Omni leisure park in Edinburgh for £74.3m and Fulham Broadway in London for £96.7m. The company ...
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News
Legal eagles land in Edinburgh
The Central Legal Office, part of the Common Services Agency, has taken 16,310 sq ft (1,515 sq m) at Anderson House in Leith, Edinburgh. It has signed a 16-year lease and is set to relocate from the city’s Trinity Park House. CB Richard Ellis acted for the CLO; Jones ...
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News
Insurer takes floor a Princes Dock
Liverpool’s Princes Dock Development Company has let the third floor of its 12 Princes Dock building to Invaro, the legal expense insurer. It is taking 22,621 sq ft (2,101 sq m) in the 98,195 sq ft (9,122 sq m) building. It has taken a 10-year lease at £16.50/sq ft (£177.60/ ...
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News
RICS launches dilapidation disputes service
The RICS is launching a dispute resolution service for landlords and tenants embroiled in rows over dilapidations claims. The service is being offered as an alternative to court action. A panel of experts is being assembled to investigate dilapidations disputes and give their independent opinion on how they should ...
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Insight
Dickinson spirit
Grainger Trust's Rupert Dickinson is in a prime position to grow the company through a UK real estate investment trust.
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News
Defying convention
To many, factory outlets do not seem like standard pension fund fodder, but not to Rupert Clarke. In his first interview, Hermes' new property chief reveals radical plans for his £400m outlet portfolio.
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News
Lease code legislation held up
The government has put off announcing its plans for legislation to enforce the Code of Practice for Commercial Leases. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister now plans to publish Reading University’s interim report into the success of the lease code in the next two weeks, when it will reveal ...
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News
West Coast view: Roger Vincent
Of all the architectural abominations perpetrated by developers in the short history of Los Angeles, the most widely reviled has to be the street corner mini-mall. No one will admit to liking them. Even preservationists who waged bitter battles here to save falling-down barns and 1950s coffee shops would pay ...
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Professional
Kennedy gains partner and a client
Law firm Howard Kennedy has gained a new client, ING Real Estate Development, with the hiring of new partner Deborah Swanwick from Lawrence Graham. Swanwick advised on ING’s shopping centre development at Milton Keynes while at Lawrence Graham and is currently advising the developer on a factory outlet in County ...
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Markets
Clearing the pipeline
Castlemore and SecondSite have big plans for the giant, long-neglected Southall Gas Works site.
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Professional
Thames Valley opening for Osborne Clarke
Law firm Osborne Clarke has opened a commercial property practice at its Thames Valley office in Reading. Andrew Clayton has moved from the firm’s Bristol office to lead the new property team, which aims to build on the property work currently generated by the Reading office’s banking and commercial law ...
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News
Cardiff Council and NTL connect for HQ talks
Cardiff Council is in talks with NTL about taking over the communications company’s headquarters building in the city. The authority is holding detailed discussions with a view to occupying a total of 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sq m) at the block in Celtic Gateway on the western side of ...
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