All Property Week articles in 22 March 2013 – Page 5
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Oxford Uni plans green belt ‘big box’ retail
Oxford University’s Merton College and Mole Valley District Council are seeking a development partner for a retail-led scheme on green belt land in Leatherhead, Surrey.
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BBC’s planners are Napier twits
Craig Wallace, director in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Scottish planning team, took a starring role in BBC 2 TV series The Planners this month.
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Markets
Need to know: Leeds’ bargain-to-upmarket shopping
Following yesterday’s opening of Trinity Leeds, which counts high street chains Primark and Marks & Spencer among its occupiers, Leeds City Council and Hammerson are now focusing on bringing bargain, as well as aspirational shopping to the city centre.
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It’s going to take more than pop-up shops for high streets to fight back
Regular visitors to Eland House, home of the Communities and Local Government department, will have watched in winter wonderment at the ground-floor conversion that took place just before Christmas.
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Australian fund cashes Bullring chips
The Australian Future Fund is preparing to sell its 33% stake in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre.
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AstraZeneca’s bitter Paddington pill
Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is planning to close its Cheshire and Paddington campuses, as it cuts jobs and moves staff to a £330m Cambridge scheme.
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Professional
People Moves: Sequoia, Turley Associates, Jackson Coles, Bruton Knowles and more...
Richard Jackson Building Consultants has appointed Amy Leader as a senior building surveyor at its Hadleigh office in Suffolk, where she will primarily be in a project management role.
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Professional
Enstar to display hoard of artworks at latest schemes
Developer’s project sponsors local and up-and-coming artists. Hardeep Sandher reports
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Markets
Leeds council to recover arena costs
Leeds City Council is going through “the appropriate processes” to recover more than £4m of legal fees and the cost of its staff’s extra work incurred defending a High Court action brought against them by Montpellier Estates.
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Executive Offices sale to whet prime London appetites
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds to sell serviced office group with freeholds for around £250m
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‘It was much too big for us’: Barry Gregory describes Broad Street Plaza angst in Halifax
Gregory Property chief aims for smaller schemes as he wrestles with selling £40m behemoth.
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Markets
Allied London gambles on New Dock’s leisure offering
Mike Ingall not worried about loss of key casino occupier at revamp
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Insight
All but four London boroughs seek to block office-to-resi conversions
Sir, How can any council that is green object to these proposals?
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Professional
How to mitigate against wrongs of rights of light
My 50th year of working with the insurance of commercial property is one in which I am hopeful of clarity on an ancient risk for developers.
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More Opal homes in administration
Another tranche of companies owned by student housing provider Opal Group collapsed into administration this week.
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Markets
Student accommodation comes of age
How can the property industry profit from the growing student accommodation sector?
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Dreams founder buzzes about stores as Sun seeks rent cuts
Private equity owner in talks with landlords after prepack administration; Mike Clare in play with new chain
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‘Ebay of property lending’ launches with £250m
Online peer-to-peer lending portal opens for business with equity raising from Swiss bank
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L&G and Patron home in on Cala with £210m purchase
Pair each take 46.5% stake in buyout of Scottish housebuilder, as Lloyds sells its share
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Interest rate cuts and new lenders make best conditions since 2008
This is the most positive lending environment I have seen since 2008. Some of the mainstream banks are looking for new lending business and all have large credit targets for this year.