All Property Week articles in 21 February 2014 – Page 9
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Segro to develop purpose built facility in Slough
Segro is to develop a new 27,230 sq ft purpose built facility for Sovrin Plastics on the Slough Trading Estate.
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Ford motors into Manchester
Ford Motor Credit Company is close to signing a deal to take around 50,000 sq ft at Ask Developments’ First Street scheme in Manchester.
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German doctors behind purchase of Sixty London
The pension fund for Berlin doctors has bought Sixty London in Holborn for around £245m, at a yield of around 4.75%.
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Co-op considers £100m sale and leaseback
The Co-operative Group is considering undertaking a sale and leaseback to raise £100m.
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Double letting for WELPUT in Marble Arch
Hunter Boot has exchanged contracts to take almost 11,000 sq ft for a new headquarters at WELPUT’s 17 Connaught Place.
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Mizen wins planning for 120 London homes
Mizen Group has acquired three sites with planning consent for 120 homes across London.
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Cluttons boosts offering to corporates
Cluttons has appointed Alan Whitelaw as head of corporate real estate.
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Property Week Sheds supplement
Development is on the up in 2014, suggests the findings of RICS’ and Macdonald Company’s annual salary survey, published in this week’s issue of Property Week.
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A peri-peri precious prize
Thanks has to go to the “consortium” that paid £3,500 to have lunch with Property Week editor Mike Phillips in the auction at last Monday’s Young Norwood Property Awards at the London Hilton Metropole.
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Take six: Staines office schemes springing up
The Surrey town of Staines upon Thames has more speculative office development under construction or completed than anywhere else on the M25: 324,635 sq ft.
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Trinity of the north
Peel, Peel Ports and Harworth Estates are combining forces to tackle the northern logistics market. Photograph by Ant Clausen
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Trocadero owner rocks new retail plans
Piccadilly landmark set for makeover to rival Regent Street
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Royal Mail: planning rules are a matter for politicians
Sir, The Mayor of London’s decision to take over the planning determination for the proposed development of part of Royal Mail’s Mount Pleasant site was made in accordance with Article 7 of the Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008.
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Lingua rancour
Untangling distressed CMBS loans is never the most straightforward of tasks, but when you’re trying to deal with documents being drafted on one side of the Channel and interpreted on the other, the task is all the more difficult.
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Justice for Taylor Wimpey
Taylor Wimpey Central London has exchanged contracts to buy the Ministry of Justice’s Ashley House on Monck Street for just less than £30m.
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Industry does not rate retailers’ proposals
Experts have slammed retailers’ “groundbreaking” proposals to reform the unpopular business rates system.
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London and Hong Kong still top
London’s West End is the world’s most expensive office market for the second year in a row, shows research published this week in Cushman & Wakefield’s annual Office Space Across the World report.
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Salaries: seven-year high
The improvement in overall confidence boils down to increases in average salaries across the board.
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Salary survey: shiny happy people
This year’s RICS and Macdonald & Company salary and benefits survey finds respondents fizzing with optimism. Felicity Francis reports
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Geeks and homies generate gongs
Last week’s annual Young Norwood Awards - one of the largest events that celebrates young property professionals - rewarded the achievements made by the technology, media and telecoms (TMT), and residential sectors.