All Property Week articles in 19 September 2008 – Page 8
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GPE sells in London
Great Portland Estates said that the Great Wigmore Partnership, its joint venture with Scottish Widows, had sold 180 Great Portland Street in Central London to Commerz Real Investmentgesellschaft, of Germany, for £79.5 million, about 4 per cent below the property’s valuation in June.
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Resi 08 underway in front of packed house
Some of the biggest names in property are among the 800 delegates gathered at the Celtic Manor resort in Newport to discuss the residential property sector.
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Dunedin industrial fund fails to secure working capital
Dunedin’s £521m industrial property fund has failed to secure the short-term working capital that it was ‘urgently’ seeking in order to survive.
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HBOS in talks with Lloyds over takeover
HBOS confirmed this afternoon that it is talks regarding a takeover by Lloyds TSB.
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Change at the top for CBRE offices team
CB Richard Ellis' head of national office agency James Brounger is moving to the firm's Southampton office to take up the role of deputy managing director.
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See Stephen Hester's keynote speech from Offices 08
Watch the speech made by British Land chief executive Stephen Hester to delegates at the Offices 08 conference.
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Barclays swoops for Lehman elements
Barclays yesterday agreed to buy Lehman Brothers’ North American investment banking platform for slightly less than $2bn, as a first step a potential series of deals aimed at reassembling Lehman’s banking operations in various countries.
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Barclays buys Lehman's North American businesses and property for £1bn
Barclays has bought Lehman Brothers’ North American investment banking and capital markets businesses.
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BAA to sell Gatwick Airport
Airport operator BAA today said it plans to sell Gatwick Airport.
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Commerz Real buys Great Portland office
Great Portland Estates has sold 180 Great Portland Street in London's West End to Commerz Real for £79.5m.
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Berkeley to meet targets despite housing gloom
Berkeley Group said today it was in line to meet performance expectations in spite of the continuing downturn in the housing market and a dip in sales levels.
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Inmobiliaria Colonial revamps due to Spanish property crisis
Spanish property group Inmobiliaria Colonial has agreed to a €7bn (£5.55bn) debt restructuring, including the sale of assets worth €2bn, in an attempt to keep the troubled company afloat.
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Lehman collapse creates Canary Wharf vacancy
The collapse of Lehman looks set to leave Songbird Estates, the Aim-listed owner of Canary Wharf, with almost 1m sq ft of unlet space.
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Watch Toby Courtauld talk about the London office market
Toby Courtauld, chief executive of Great Portland Estates, talks about the prospects of the London office market in the credit crunch.
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Labour could end empty rates tax
The Government is expected to discuss slashing its hated tax on commercial property today.
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Cushman forms receivership team
Cushman & Wakefield has formed an association with a Law of Property Act (LPA) receiver to add to its debt recovery services team.
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'Business parks are not dead' says industry
Business parks received a spirited defence from some of the top names in the sector at Offices 08 in Newport today.
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Self storage REIT Big Yellow Group has carried out a £325m refinancing of its business with HSH Nordbank
It told the Stock Exchange today that the bank facility with the German bank, which was the sole arranger and underwriter, was a five year partly revolving banking facility.
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Ecclesiastical’s new HQ divine for Gloucester regeneration
Ecclesiastical Insurance, the listed insurance company, has confirmed it will build a new 125,000 sq ft head-quarters in Gloucester’s Southgate Moorings.
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Chartered Land confirms major Dublin office letting
BCM Hanby Wallace has completed a deal to take 150,000 sq ft of office space at Chartered Land's 2 Grand Canal Square in Dublin, Ireland.