All Property Week articles in 22 August 2008 – Page 4
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Online
Schroders to tempt German investors with ‘spezialfond’
Open-ended fund will target investors looking to capitalise on UK’s falling property prices
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News
Gazeley sells in Newbury
Gazeley has sold around 9 acres – thought to be for a data centre – to Nationwide Building Society for £1m an acre at its site in Newbury, near Greenham Common. It still owns more than 10 acres at the Berkshire site which it bought in March.
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News
Wolverine sets foot in the UK
Wolverine, the US footwear retailer that owns brands such as Hush Puppies, Caterpillar and Sebago, has hired Harper Dennis Hobbs to advise on its UK and European expansion strategy.
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Markets
Stanhope to trial new floor as prices go through the roof
Alternative to concrete floors is cheaper and could reduce build times by 35%
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News
Investors experience relief as five-year swap rates fall
Dramatic fall attributed to growing feeling that interest rates are unlikely to rise
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Professional
Evicting travellers
A group of travellers has recently arrived on my land. How can I get rid of them, and quickly?
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Markets
Quadrant’s Eureka Park moment
Quadrant Estates has sold the long leasehold of two office units at Eureka Park in Ashford to a private investor for £4.825m.
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News
EU ruins Rochdale scheme
Rochdale Council has been forced to rip up its £250m agreement with Wilson Bowden for the redevelopment of Rochdale town centre as a result of a European Union ruling.
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News
Not quite Mansley enough?
Bragg’s running feats (see related article below) are matched by Nick Mansley.
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News
New Star fund price shoots up and down
Pricing for New Star Asset Management’s International Property Fund moved from bid price to offer, then back again last week, as the fund experienced outflows for the first time.
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News
Slough’s HQ developer list
Slough Borough Council has invited Crowborough Properties, Development Securities, LaSalle London Office Fund, LaSalle UK Ventures Fund, Salmon Harvester Properties, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and Valad Property to tender for the contract to provide it with a 80,000-90,000 sq ft headquarters in Slough town centre.
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News
Derivative values
A monthly look at derivatives with Tullett Prebon’s Rob Atkin and DTZ’s Gary McNamara
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Insight
Residential REITs are needed to lift depressed sector
Sir, In the government’s efforts to prop up the collapsing residential property market and maintain its planned building targets, one key opportunity has been overlooked.
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Professional
Venmore merges departments
North-west agent Venmore has merged its commercial and auction departments with the aim of offering a more ‘co-ordinated service to its commercial clients’.
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Insight
Demolished by rates
Sir, As commercial developers, we are extremely concerned about the affect of empty rates on our long- term plans and the utilisation of our assets in the short-term.
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News
A deal not to scoff at
A luxury hotel near Leeds has introduced a deal to help its hard-hit property clients.