All Property Week articles in 20 November 2009 – Page 10
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Hammerson to begin new Paris project
Hammerson lost its managing director for France this week, but plans its first development in the country since the onset of the credit crunch
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Starwood completes at Basinghall St
US investment company Starwood Capital Group Global has completed the £30m purchase of Prupim’s City Tower at 40 Basinghall Street in the City of London
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Swallow swoops on Barrie
My esteemed editor Giles Barrie has manfully finished each of the three King Sturge Property Triathlons, consistently bringing up the rear
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Barnett Ross finds its place in the Spanish sun
Barnett Ross has teamed up with the Channel 4 television programme A Place in the Sun to hold an auction of Spanish residential property
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Manchester seeks high-flyer for ‘sky bar’
Milligan’s retail makeover to culminate in conversion of former control tower
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Banks issue wind farm loans
Up to £1.4bn of loans for onshore wind farms were made available last week through the European Investment Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and BNP Paribas Fortis, supported by the Treasury and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.Loans are available for projects of between £20m ...
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Bank Leumi backs Ideal Care Homes
Bank Leumi has provided a £15m rolling debt facility to support Leeds -based LNT Group’s subsidiary, Ideal Care Homes. Ideal will manage care homes, developed by sister company LNT Construction. The first, Brackenfield Hall in Frecheville, Sheffield , opens this month.
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Is TIF model too risky for local authorities?
Barack Obama is often credited with bringing tax increment financing (TIF) to the world, but it was being used in Chicago two decades before he even began dreaming of the White House
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Guildford Friary assembly
Fund manager Legal & General has let three shops at its Friary Street shopping quarter in Guildford
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New Aspecto for Brum’s Pavilions
UBS’s Triton Property Fund has let a 2,005 sq ft store to men’s designer retailer Aspecto at the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Birmingham on a 10-year lease
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Asda consultation in ‘Tesco town’
ASDA is to carry out a community consultation this month on its food store and petrol station planned in the so-called Tesco town of Slackbuie, Inverness, where Tesco has three stores.
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Empty Kent property for sale, free architect included
Scheme aims to encourage people to undertake renovation work
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Berkeley Group is green giant among housebuilders
For the third year running, Berkeley Group has been named the UK’s most sustainable developer, as measured by the NextGeneration benchmark, which ranks the 25 largest housebuilders
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American group buys Protego
US giant Cornerstone swoops for Reid, Weeks and Llewelyn’s fund manager to become $30bn global manager
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American Express starts its home improvements
A year ago American Express announced severe cost-cutting measures, including 7,000 global job losses
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Boris’s ambitious targets come home to roost
Research reveals true cost of London mayor’s housing design plans
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Altyon fund’s first closing
Altyon, the fund manager set up by former CB Richard Ellis executive directors Simon Holley and Simon Blake, has closed its first fund
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St Alphage House site Makes history
Hammerson has selected architect Make to design a scheme for its St Alphage House site in the City of London
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Allied Irish’s role in demise of Kenmore
When Kenmore Property Group and 22 of its subsidiaries went into administration and receivership last week, a shiver went through the industry. Most saw it as the sign that Kenmore’s lender and part-backer, Lloyds Banking Group, was turning tough on clients — even favourites such as Kenmore. However, the ...