All Property Week articles in 22 September 2000 – Page 2

  • Markets

    The company of Wolves

    22 September 2000

    Warrington s council members may have undermined the rejuvenation of their town centre when it granted Tesco planning permission on an arguably out-of-town site. Steve Brauner reports on how groceries and rugby combined to make a formidable opponent to the town centre s comeback

  • News

    Look no columns: glass and steel restructuring for Melrose House

    22 September 2000

    Wilson Bowden Developments and Taylor Clark Properties have set up a joint venture to redevelop Melrose House, Glasgow, into a stainless steel and glass 6,100 sq m (65,660 sq ft) office. The development, called Equinox, on Cadogan Street will have eight floors of column-free space completed by December 2001. It ...

  • Markets

    Cheshire set keeps on grinning

    22 September 2000

    It has been steady business in the region, with rent rises predicted for second-hand property.

  • News

    Eversheds change of toon trips up city developers

    22 September 2000

    Developers in Newcastle city centre have had their plans to capture the largest single office letting of the year dashed after Eversheds shelved its requirement for a new city office headquarters. The law firm has instead decided to consolidate in one of its existing offices at Millburn House near the ...

  • News

    Chancellor to give developers regeneration tax incentives

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Lord Rogers’ Urban Task Force wins battle with Gordon Brown for zero VAT on refurbishments and conversions

  • Markets

    Planning: impact of car parking restrictions and residential demand

    22 September 2000

    A review of strategic land interests in Kent is being undertaken by Eurotunnel Developments , which is working out a strategy for the M20 corridor as part of the new Regional Planning Guidance for Kent. The first tunnel to be completed for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, from the ...

  • News

    Canary Wharf eyes Docklands expansion

    22 September 2000

    UK s second largest property company is looking to branch out of core estate

  • News

    The man who said no to buying the Millennium Dome

    22 September 2000

    Nomura s sometimes audacious head of principle finance in London, Guy Hands, tells Jenny Davey about his sleepless nights worrying about the Dome bid and the indications that everything was not as it should be.

  • News

    Minister confirms supplementary business rate

    22 September 2000

    The government will allow local authorities to levy a supplementary business rate. DETR minister Hilary Armstrong confirmed the plans predicted by Property Week (16 June) as part of the government s Green Paper Modernising Local Government Finance, published on Tuesday. How the rate will ...

  • Professional

    Big Brother: watching you, watching me

    22 September 2000

    Be careful what you say, you never know who might be listening. Several surveying firms admit to monitoring their employees’ web activities, but the forthcoming Human Rights Act may render anything more than that a violation of privacy. Liz Hamson reports on the latest proposed legislation governing cyber-snooping

  • News

    Dome bid secret backers revealed

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Irish developer Treasury Holdings is bankrolling Legacy’s Millennium Dome bid

  • Markets

    Dartford runs rings around the rest

    22 September 2000

    Thanks to motorway links, developer and occupier interest is on the up in Kent.

  • Markets

    Ahead for business

    22 September 2000

    Companies are making a beeline for Cheshire.

  • News

    Liberty falls after bid

    22 September 2000

    The City has given a negative response to Liberty International s 412p-a-share offer to buy out the remaining 25% of Capital Shopping Centres shares. Liberty chairman Donald Gordon described the mostly paper offer as fair, reasonable and realistic , even though it was below the previous ...

  • News

    Hermes shuffles portfolio to accommodate MEPC deal

    22 September 2000

    hermes has sold a £150m mixed portfolio to Kevin McGrath s REIT Asset Management as part of the restructuring of its property portfolio to accommodate the £1.9bn acquisition of MEPC . The fund, which in a joint venture with GE Capital took MEPC private in August, offered the ...

  • News

    VAT’s the final word on mixed schemes

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Tribunal redraws the line with huge implications for back tax – and with interest

  • News

    Priest’s prayers answered

    22 September 2000

    Mapeley moves out from the shadow of rival Trillium, with Revenue and Abbey deals.

  • Markets

    All’s well and good in Tunbridge

    22 September 2000

    High streets, not edge-of-town sites, are now driving rents in Kent.

  • Markets

    Shipshape in Bluewater’s wake

    22 September 2000

    The mega-mall has not sucked local shopping centres under.

  • News

    Britannic in £500m property expansion

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    £20bn-strong asset manager to focus spend on office and industrial investment