All Property Week articles in 20 November 2009 – Page 4
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Rushmere shopping centre gets record number of shoppers
Rushmere Shopping Centre in Craigavon in Northern Ireland has received a record numbers of shoppers for 2009 with thirteen consecutive months of growth.
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Fast food outlets grow in the UK
The numbers of fast food outlets in the top 10 UK cities have increased by 8.2% to 1,456 outlets over the last 12 months, according to research from the Local Data Company.
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Sale and leasebacks still going strong, say CBRE
Sale and leaseback transactions accounted for 17% of the European property investment market in the first half of this year, according to research from CB Richard Ellis.
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Cameron reissues RDA threat
David Cameron reiterated his threat to regional development agencies that their future under a Conservative government could be short if the party wins the next election.
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Tale of two cities for Yorkshire and Sheffield in the downturn
Occupier demand has fallen in Leeds by 30% in the last year, but risen by 30% in Sheffield, according to Lambert Smith Hampton.
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John Lewis signs at Hamilton International
John Lewis has signed to take 40,000 sq ft at HF Developments’ Hamilton International Park, near Glasgow, as tipped by Property Week .
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Blacks Leisure CVA approved
Blacks Leisure’s subsidiary, The Outdoor Group, has agreed a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its creditors today.
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Strutt & Parker annual profits plunge 79%
Strutt & Parker today revealed a sharp drop in profits in the year to 30 April 2009 in its first results since converting to LLP status in May 2008.
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Birmingham Central Library will not be listed
Birmingham Central Library has been granted immunity from listing, opening up major development opportunities in the city.
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Conservative local authorities less likely to grant planning consent
Residential property developers are less likely to get planning permission for developments in Conservative controlled local authorities, according to law firm McGrigors.
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Barclay brothers plan to bring Woolworths back to the high street
Woolworths could return to the high street under a plan by Shop Direct group, the owner of Littlewoods, to establish a chain of 200 stores.
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Rockspring raises £152m in the first close of its UK value fund
Rockspring Property Investment Managers has raised £152m in the first close of its UK Value Fund.
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SPX picks Manchester
SPX Corporation, a US based manufacturing firm, has picked Manchester as the location for a new ‘shared service centre.’
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China central bank urges: stop stimulus now
China should immediately halt some of its real estate stimulus policies, or risk inflating a bubble that in its bursting would wreak financial and even social trouble, a government newspaper said.
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Indian developers eye integrated model
Integrated township is the new buzzword with realtors planning huge investments in projects that they say would reduce pressure on city infrastructure and bring in crores of investment into the housing sector.
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US housing wobbles again
The US housing market is sputtering again, adding to doubts about the vigor of the economic recovery.
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Record price paid for Beijing housing site
A low-density housing lot in Beijing sold for 29,859 yuan (HK$33,893) per square metre yesterday - the highest unit price for a residential site on the mainland.
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Qatar-Bahrain causeway construction to start next year
Construction on the world’s longest causeway that will link Qatar with Bahrain is expected to start by the first quarter of next year after spending a decade in the planning stage.
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Singapore to assess intervention impact
Singapore will study the impact of existing measures to deter speculative property purchases before taking more steps to rein in prices, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said.
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Colonial First State eyes Sydney sale
Colonial First State Property is in exclusive talks with a potential buyer to sell the Aurora Place office tower in Sydney by mid December.