All Property Week articles in 21 November 2003 – Page 2

  • News

    Morrisons to lease huge Kettering shed

    21 November 2003

    Supermarket set to sign up for 850,000 sq ft at Gazeley's Latimer Park

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    Retail helps LandSecs to solid half-year results

    21 November 2003

    Land Securities ' shares soared to their highest price for 18 months on Wednesday after the company reported a solid set of half-year results in difficult market conditions. Its adjusted net asset value rose 4% to 1264p a share in the six months to 30 September, pleasing the City and ...

  • News

    Rent review guru headhunted

    21 November 2003

    Strutt & Parker has poached one of the best-known names in the City of London rent review market from CB Richard Ellis . Chris Pickering, who was a director at CBRE with 20 years’ experience, is joining as a partner working alongside David Todd.

  • News

    Have we got news for you

    21 November 2003

    Tickets are selling fast for the Leisure Property Awards dinner on 2 December, which will be hosted by former Have I Got News for You presenter Angus Deayton. Contact CreatEvents for tickets on 0870 2419 902.

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    News

    Sellar tower given the green light

    21 November 2003

    Renzo Piano's 'shards of glass' scheme due to start in 2005

  • Markets

    Science faction

    21 November 2003

    Housebuilders may not like it, but the BBC's Pebble Mill building has been designated part of the latest science park scheme backed by the Midlands development agency.

  • News

    Kwik-fit for empty factories

    21 November 2003

    Kwik-fit founder Sir Tom Farmer’s company Morston Assets has bought two vacant factories totalling 525,000 sq ft (48,774 sq m) for £6m. The two former foundries in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, and Crewe in Cheshire, have been bought from the administrators of Sheffield Forgemasters Rolls. The Meadow Works site in Coatbridge ...

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    UDC for east London

    21 November 2003

    An urban development corporation (UDC) is to be set up in the Thames Gateway. The UDC will cover Stratford City, the Lower Lea, Royal Docks, Isle of Dogs, Greenwich peninsula, Deptford Creek, Barking, Dagenham, Woolwich and Thamesmead. It is being established to push forward the government's sustainable communities plan to ...

  • Markets

    Eade on: Holding the Fort

    21 November 2003

    Fort Dunlop, one of Birmingham's biggest industrial landmarks, is finally in line for redevelopment after years of dereliction

  • News

    Standard Life to set up private fund duo

    21 November 2003

    Private investors set to gain from £154m commercial portfolio in first new fund

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    Lewis steps down in Freeport pay revolt

    21 November 2003

    Shareholders reject report and force out remuneration committee chair

  • Markets

    Surrey delight

    21 November 2003

    After months of inactivity, occupiers are coming back to the Surrey market, with 400,000 sq ft of deals close to completion.

  • News

    Pillar secures debt facility for Euro park fund

    21 November 2003

    Pillar Property has secured an initial ¤150m (£105m) debt facility with Eurohypo for its ¤500m (£350m) European retail park fund. The syndicated facility, arranged by Eurohypo's real estate investment banking division, will rise to ¤300m (£210m) as the fund gets bigger. The loan can be used by Pillar to ...

  • News

    Wickes signs second-largest shed deal

    21 November 2003

    CIS has signed up Wickes for a distribution warehouse in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in what is the second-biggest shed deal in the south-east this year. Wickes, the second-largest DIY business in the UK with 430 stores, signed up last week for the 130,000 sq ft (12,077 sq m) Maximate building ...

  • Professional

    The Land Registry cries freedom

    21 November 2003

    There is little reason to fear more information going public

  • News

    Next takes space at Crayford park

    21 November 2003

    Aberdeen Property Investors has let 10,000 sq ft (930 sq m) at its Tower Retail Parkin Crayford to Next. Next has signed a 15-year lease for the retail warehouse and is paying a rent of £250,000 a year. Green & Partners acted for API and Next was represented by ...

  • Markets

    High hopes fall flat in Crawley

    21 November 2003

    There were high hopes of a surge in office activity in Crawley earlier this year, but the amount of deals transacted has been a bit of an anticlimax. After the 22,000 sq ft (2,043 sq m) CP Ships deal at City Place earlier this year, significant deals thought to be ...

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    West Coast view: Roger Vincent

    21 November 2003

    As the UK contemplates the introduction of tax-transparent property vehicles, it may be worthwhile looking at how they are faring in the massive commercial property markets of California and the rest of the US. In short, the real estate investment trust ( REIT ) industry here is doing very well ...

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    Sale prompts Old Mutual City disposal

    21 November 2003

    South African financial services company Old Mutual is vacating Millennium Bridge House in the City of London, after selling its stockbroking business Gerrard to Barclays . The 200,000 sq ft (18,580 sq m) building, one of the largest secondhand additions to the City market this year, is being put on ...

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    Chelsfield MBO offer delayed once more

    21 November 2003

    Elliott Bernerd's management buyout offer for Chelsfield has been delayed for a second time. Chelsfield's independent directors, led by Sir Bruce Macphail, announced on Wednesday that the offer from the Bernerd consortium, originally due in October and then put back to November, had now been delayed until December. The ...