All Property Week articles in 22 February 2013 – Page 7
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Markets
Asda's Green Park product line
Asda has opened its first standalone “click and collect” point at Oxford Properties’ Green Park in Reading.
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News
Area and Sovereign’s Lion buy
Area Property Partners and Sovereign Land have signed to buy the long leasehold of the Lion Walk shopping centre in Colchester from LaSalle Investment Management’s UK Ventures fund.
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News
Shapps and Clegg at loggerheads in Eastleigh as homes approved
Town Quay Developments this week won consent for a retail and residential scheme in Eastleigh, Hampshire, as political tensions over planning mounted ahead of next week’s by-election there.
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Professional
Amsterdam gets smart as capital of sustainability
This year’s “smart city” launches initiatives to cut energy consumption.
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Markets
Legal & General Property's Bracknell centre modernisation is 'all systems go'
The new man in charge of the redevelopment of Bracknell town centre claims the scheme is “all systems go”.
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Insight
It’s all in the timing as Galliford tries luck in unloved Midlands
Comedy, Eric Morecambe once observed, is all about … timing.
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News
LandSecs hires Zig Zag agents
Land Securities has hired Cushman & Wakefield and Knight Frank as letting agents on the Zig Zag building, which it is developing as part of its regeneration of London’s Victoria area.
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Insight
Outdated green belt policy is working against communities
Sir, Baroness Hanham has sparked controversy lately for daring to suggest that those parts of the green belt that are not “absolutely brilliant” may be developed, if only for affordable housing (professional, 02.11.12). Two cheers for Baroness Hanham.
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Professional
Campaigners make noise about ‘growing menace’ of sound pollution
Campaigners are urging government to reduce the risk of noise pollution in new developments.
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News
Birmingham’s £800m public paradise package
Funding agreement unveiled today allows city to retain increases in rates to kick-start developments
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News
Lenders shake off shackles to stump up £36bn in 2013
Investment Property Forum and Association of Property Lenders data show amount lent to real estate could go up by 20%. Mike Phillips reports
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Insight
Last year was sweet for REIT shares but all could turn sour in 2013
It is the beginning of the Chinese year of the black water snake, which is meant to bring unexpected transformations.
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Markets
Finzels reaches sales after difficult 2012
Bristol Harbour development is attracting buyers after price drop.
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Professional
London had a good 2012 but must stay ahead of the game
The events of 2012 significantly raised London’s profile. But was the capital a medal contender in terms of economic growth?
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News
Ex-Lehman man launches £200m luxury resi debt drive
Richard Story-led Henley Property Finance will provide finance to cash-strapped developers in south-east
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News
Countrywide to return to FTSE 250 with £200m flotation
The UK’s largest estate agent this week announced plans to raise £200m with a return to the FTSE 250 — six years after it delisted.
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News
Retail voids ‘could hit 17%’
Average town centre shop vacancy rates remained high at 14.2% in 2012 but could rise to 17%, if more stores from the collapsed HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster portfolios are not relet, the Local Data Company (LDC) warned this week.
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Retail voids ‘could hit 17%’
Average town centre shop vacancy rates remained high at 14.2% in 2012 but could rise to 17%, if more stores from the collapsed HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster portfolios are not relet, the Local Data Company (LDC) warned this week.