All Property Week articles in 21 July 2006
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OnlineCapital & Counties and GE Real Estate win race to buy Covent Garden
Covent Garden Limited Partnership confirms buyers
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Dome leads race for supercasino
The Millennium Dome is the frontrunner to house the UK’s only ‘supercasino’ following the first round of the competition.
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Tiger gets teeth into prime Edinburgh site
Tiger Developments has been selected as preferred purchaser for the Haymarket site in Edinburgh city centre.
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OnlineMWB sells Docklands hotel to private investor
Marylebone Warwick Balfour has sold its West India Quay hotel in London’s Docklands for £110m to developer and private investor Yianis Christodoulou.
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Shortlist announced for Swindon Exchange
A five-strong shortlist has been picked for the development of the £300m Exchange scheme in Swindon.
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Markets
Watch this space
Cinema operators are overhauling wasted foyer space in an attempt to seduce audiences with better food and leisure facilities. Anna Goldie reports
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Sophies world
Life’s hard when you’re a top model. Poor Sophie Anderton has been rejected by the men on ITV’s Love Island and forced to sleep alone.
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ProfessionalOn the same wavelength?
Experts are questioning whether economist Kate Barker and Gordon Brown agree on planning reform.
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The reign of Spain
The notoriously trophy-shy Spanish football team have finally triumphed in the World Cup.
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Insight
Reality of RESI
Sir, In reference to Anthony Lorenz’s suggestions to stop gazumping (letters, 07.07.06), I would hazard a guess that he does not deal with residential property sales on a daily basis or he would know that his proposals are impracticable.
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Natural selection
Objectors often use the Environmental Impact Assessment regulations to challenge developments. Two recent judgments from the European Court of Justice could add to their ammunition.
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InsightLife of leisure
Richard Balfour-Lynn has run leisure parks, Malmaison and Hotel du Vin. Now he has splashed out £750m for De Vere Hotels.
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News
The University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is to sell the 36,868 sq ft (3,425 sq m) Priory of St Wilfrid on Springfield Mount, Leeds, with a price tag of more than £2m. The grade II-listed teaching college was designed by Temple Lushington Moore. Allsop is advising on the sale, which is ...
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Land Securities
Land Securities this week revealed revised plans for its ‘walkie-talkie’ tower at 20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London. It has reduced the 45 storeys to 36. It also revealed images of a ‘Sky Garden’ at the top of the tower. Land Securities was also due to submit ...
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MarketsHome-making
Is ‘flat-pack’ construction a green approach to housebuilding? Christine Eade reports from Germany
