All Property Week articles in 2 May 2003
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Online
Compco shares soar
Shares in Compco, the small quoted property investor run by Robert Nadler and Nigel Ross, soared today after it said it had received a takeover approach.
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Online
Chesterton fires rebel directors
Chesterton has fired the two directors opposed to Mohammed Jafari-Fini's £10m takeover bid.
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Online
TDL ends Whitfield Street wait
The Doctor’s Laboratory (TDL) has taken the entire 36,200 sq ft (3,363 sq m) of London Merchant Securities’ (LMS) 60 Whitfield Street in London W1, after the property sat empty for almost a year.
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Online
£70m Freeport Portugal plan
Factory outlet developer, Freeport, today confirmed plans to go ahead with the £70.4m Freeport Lisboa designer outlet resort in Portugal.
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Online
Standard Life buys €60m European portfolio
Standard Life, the largest UK institutional investor in continental European property, has bought €58.5m (£41m) of property in Portugal and France for its €310m (£217m) European Property Growth Fund.
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Online
Crossrail hits back
Crossrail, the joint venture between the Strategic Rail Authority and Transport for London, today denied press reports that the scheme for new mainline rail tunnels under London is suffering delay or unforeseen expense.
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Online
Po Na Na blow
Bar and night club operator, Po Na Na, was forced into administration last night after the company was unable to dispose of at least 15 under-performing properties.
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Insight
Role of surveyors
Sir, Paul Winter, chairman of the RICS management consultancy faculty, states that the 'core capability of agencies is efficient brokerage' (letters, 17 April, p23), but he seems to misunderstand the role of the surveyor and contradicts the mechanics of the market.
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MarketsProfile: Needful things
In the first of nine features this year on the regional development agencies we ask if the south-east really needs another level of bureaucracy
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InsightLondon's Times Square
In the same way that New York's landmark square was turned around in the 1980s, Westminster council hopes to regenerate Leicester Square into a world-class destination.
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Markets
Regional spotlight: London
Landowners and developers hold the power to tip the balance of London's finely poised new-build residential market.
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Markets
Talk of the towns: Yorks, north & NE Lincs
Donnie's dig … Corrie-crazy agents … two-wheel rent record … ugly architecture … cursed codename
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MarketsOffices: Leeds' public profile
Leeds' office market performed poorly in 2002 but this year looks promising with government departments leading the way.
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NewsPark Place gets green light
Minerva's plans to develop Park Place, a £500m shopping centre in Croydon, south London, have been waved through by the government after it decided not to call in the scheme.
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News
Lewisham seeks partner for Gateway plans
Lewisham Borough Council has started the hunt for a development partner for a mixed-use scheme in the centre of the south-east London area.
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NewsKilmartin increases profits fourfold
Kilmartin Property Group, the private Scottish-based developer headed by Iain Wotherspoon, achieved an increase of 200% in pretax profits to £3.6m in the year to 31 March due in large part to the sale of the Cameron Toll shopping centre in Edinburgh.
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Retail star Tushingham quits Manchester firm
One of the best-known names in retail agency is quitting the firm he co-founded 15 years ago.
