All Property Week articles in 21 August 2009 – Page 7
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News
Paragon takes on CNP instructions
Paragon Partners has taken over 40 mandates from CNP, the building and projects consultant that went into administration in May
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News
ING touches Wood for City sale to Rockspring
Fund manager in talks for third time to sell 88 Wood Street in ‘stapled’ deal
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Visium Group ceases trading
Private investor property consultancy and publishing company Visium Group ceased trading last week after being hit by the downturn in overseas sales
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Professional
CBRE restores Scots retail presence
CB Richard Ellis has made two appointments to revive its Scottish retail operation
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Insight
Precious little prey for cash-rich predators
There is nothing like a racy takeover story to get people talking
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Insight
Canton heat
The disappearance of Canton Property Investment’s chairman and an estimated £800m in loans have led to China’s biggest banking crisis
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Markets
Fall in buy-to-let loans eases in tentative sign of stability
… but Council of Mortgage Lenders reveals that repossessions continue to rise
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News
Cushman’s Japanese buy
Cushman & Wakefield has expanded in Japan with the purchase of Pacific Investment Corporation, the fund management arm of Japanese real estate fund Pacific Holdings Group
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Professional
December deadline for business rates deferrals
Occupiers only have until December to defer part of this year’s business rates bill over the next two years, rating experts warn
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News
KFC’s north-east party bucket
KFC is to open four outlets this year in the north-east of England as part of a UK expansion
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Southall buys parade in Brum
Nantes Properties, the Isle of Man-based investment vehicle owned by Peter Southall, has made its first purchase: a retail block at 109/117 High Street in Kings Heath, Birmingham, for £4m, at a yield of 8.17%
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Professional
Brighter later
Uncertain conditions in corporate real estate could give way to fairer weather
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Professional
Boris to pay for Crossrail with empty rates
Empty rates bills in London will go up by almost 5% next April if mayor Boris Johnson makes owners of empty properties pay an additional business rates levy to fund the capital’s east-west rail link, Crossrail
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News
Bust-up in Bootle
Buyers in revolt at Nick Kollakis’s residential scheme that has attracted sporting celebrities
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News
George Davies’s Bluewater debut
Bluewater shopping centre in Kent is to be the debut venue for George Davies’s new GIVe retail concept
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Blackstone on brink of Broadgate stake buy
Private equity firm in advanced talks with British Land for £150m purchase
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News
Beer snakes? They’re just not cricket …
One of the biggest talking points of this summer’s cricket has been the petty ban on the time-honoured tradition of ‘building the beer snake’ – stacking empty plastic cups to form a long ‘snake’
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Professional
Developers ‘cannot claim back unused levy payments’
Section 106 replacement would allow councils to keep cash for unbuilt infrastructure
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News
Aviva underwhelmed by Liffey Valley bidders
Aviva Investors will remarket its Liffey Valley shopping centre near Dublin, which it owns with Grosvenor, for a second time
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Markets
Liquid assets
NGM Sustainable Developments’ floating buildings could add value to discounted flood-risk areas