All Property Week articles in 20 May 2011 – Page 2
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News
Jones Lang LaSalle first in line to King Sturge throne
Partners close to approving £200m takeover that would create UK’s largest firm by turnover
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Insight
Firms wedded to the past could be left on the shelf
Having written about property for 23 years, there are very few stories which knock me for six
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News
Interactive: Find where overseas money is spent in London
Use our interactive map below to see which of London’s streets and properties overseas buyers have been pouring their billions into buying.
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News
Galliard and NAMA thrash out flats fate
Galliard Homes is close to concluding refinancing talks with Ireland’s NAMA (National Asset Management Agency) over New Capital Quay, one of London’s biggest residential casualties of the downturn
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News
Simply Be expands on to high street
Online plus-size clothing retailer Simply Be is to move on to the high street and acquire its first stores in the UK. It has appointed GL Hearn to find three trial stores, initially on high streets in the north-west, to be open by September.
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Professional
Five ways … to embrace localism
1 Plan nowLike it or not, localism is coming. The pre-coalition planning green paper remains a touchstone and a rare area of agreement in the Dave and Nick camps. However, there is still time to advance development ahead of localism.The bill’s further reading and passage through the Lords and the ...
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Markets
‘Portobello effect’ mushrooms for Pears
Estate owner aims to create “urban, edgy” retail destination
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Insight
Store viability looks dubious in multi-channel world
The next few years in retail promise to be the most challenging of modern times
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News
Lucy in Disguise exposed in Soho
Lily Allen has secured the first permanent store for her fashion brand, Lucy in Disguise
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Markets
Glenkerrin founder defiant despite NAMA intervention
Grehans hope to be involved in transaction to rescue company
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News
Peakside makes UK debut in Hammersmith
Private equity firm Peakside Capital has made its first UK purchase, buying 80 Hammersmith Road in west London for £7.4m from Scottish Amicable
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Drakes to make standalone debut
High-end gentlemen’s fashion brand Drakes of London is to open its first standalone store. It has signed a deal with the Pollen Estate to open a 636 sq ft store at 3 Clifford Street in the West End of London. It will pay £80,000 a year. Kitchen La Frenais Morgan ...
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Dean leaves no stone unturned
East Anglian property company Turnstone Estates has appointed Savills development director Tim Deacon to help it embark on a development drive
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Markets
Industry outcry over Ireland’s retrospective rent reviews falls on deaf ears
Minister claims change of law is vital solution to Irish debt crisis
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Markets
Databank: planning for growth
Government policy has taken a decisive step towards higher levels of housebuilding since the Budget on 23 March
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News
ING finally shuts gate on Covent Garden
ING Real Estate Investment Management has sold its last asset in Covent Garden, bringing to an end a nine-year fund
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Leslau and Lipton set new course for property sector
Receivers conference hears radical ideas of Nick Leslau and Sir Stuart Lipton
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Cost of debt leaves Crest Nicholson in twilight zone
Crest Nicholson made a pretax loss of £27.4m in the year to 31 October, after it incurred £75.6m of debt interest and amortisation charges