All Property Week articles in 20 April 2012 – Page 3
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Online
D2 Private secures massive Mayfair rent
D2 Private has secured one of Mayfair’s biggest rents at it’s 23 Savile Row office building.
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Online
Segro agrees to sell IQ Farnborough for more than £90m
Segro has agreed to sell IQ Farnborough for more than £90m as a part of its disposals of non-core assets.
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Markets
Take three … rallying regional retail tales
Theo Paphitis, the retailer and Dragons’ Den panellist, teased Hammerson at the launch of Southampton City Council’s masterplan last month, because the REIT had no suitable shop in Southampton’s WestQuay shopping centre for Boux Avenue, the lingerie chain that he launched last year.
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Professional
Property steps up to responsibilities
Property Week, Jones Lang LaSalle, Chainbow and LandAid teamed up to bring property’s message to a charity-dominated audience at a pan-industry exhibition and conference last month.
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News
Vornado promise from Roth
Steven Roth, chairman of US REIT Vornado Realty Trust, is putting “everything on the table” in an attempt to lift the company’s share price.
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Insight
Stable pricing suggests weak year for returns
The Royal Bank of Scotland estimates that around £400m was traded over the first quarter of 2012 for UK commercial property derivative contracts, which compares with £340m executed in the fourth quarter of last year.
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Professional
Pro-growth Persimmon triumphs in Solihull
A developer has won an appeal against a council decision to refuse it planning permission, in one of the first cases to test the government’s new pro-growth planning policy.
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Insight
London's Mayoral Manifestos
In part three of our series examining the issues affecting London’s mayoral election, Patrick Gower scrutinises the four main candidates’ policies and compares Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson’s battle plans two weeks before Londoners cast their votes
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Insight
London's Mayoral Manifestos
In part three of our series examining the issues affecting London’s mayoral election, Patrick Gower scrutinises the four main candidates’ policies and compares Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson’s battle plans two weeks before Londoners cast their votes
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News
The Property Lexicon
SWUF /sw f/ abbrev. Increasingly popular derivation, unpronounceable without sounding more Labrador than property agent, it means “sovereign wealth fund”. Example: “I think the SWUFs will love this pin-up bit of kit”. DERIVATIVES — SWF, the acronym for “sovereign wealth fund”. See also: sovereign wealth fund
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News
Landlords lobby to stop retail prepacks ‘Taking the Profit’
British Property Federation launches campaign for insolvency practitioners to act fairly
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Insight
Negotiating interests
Sir, I read your recent article about negotiation with interest (analysis, 30.03.12).
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Markets
Need to know: Imperium measure
After being bought out of administration before Christmas, Solstice Park’s new owners have embarked on a rebranding exercise. Christine Eade finds out why
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News
Microsoft ponders Victoria headquarters refresh
Microsoft is considering a departure from London’s Victoria, after instructing agents to find it a smaller UK headquarters.
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Markets
New GSK plant is tonic for troubled pharma sector
Glaxosmithkline (GSK) announced its intention last month to build a £350m manufacturing facility at its plant in Ulverston, Cumbria.
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News
Morys joins McCready at GPU
The Government Property Unit has drafted in a senior civil servant to run the department alongside its managing director John McCready.
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Markets
Terrace Hill turns from town to gown in search for tenants
Low office take-up in Southampton prompts rethink from developer. Christine Eade reports