All Property Week articles in 23 August 2013 – Page 3
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Insight
The need for speed
Barely a week passes without the economic merits of High Speed 2 coming under renewed scrutiny.
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News
Northwood poised for Square Mile splash
New York-based investment firm Northwood Investors is closing in on its second City of London purchase.
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News
Shard welcomes lawyer tenant
A firm of intellectual property lawyers is to become the latest company to take space at the Shard, at London Bridge.
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Professional
Sainsbury’s stokes local ire
Angry residents are considering a judicial review of Hackney Council’s approval of plans for a 45,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s and 53 flats in Stoke Newington, north-east London.
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News
LandSecs on hunt in Victoria
Around 100 commercial agents tookpart in a treasure hunt in the vicinity of Land Securities’ 123 Victoria Street scheme last week, which ended with a few rounds at some local pubs.
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Insight
Questions of survival for retailers on our high streets
The wave of retail administrations has dramatically changed the face of the high street.
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News
Industry scratches head over statue
In Property Week’s tablet edition on August, Ludgate asked its learned readers to help identify a replica of cleared from the basement of the Victorian-era Thicket pub near Crystal Palace Park, south London.
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Professional
Neighbours’ hard knocks for school plans
The message Restrictive covenants only catch activities on the affected land.
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Professional
Floating-property pioneer in legal row
A developer with radical proposals to build floating properties in flood-risk areas has issued legal proceedings, claiming it was misled into giving up its patent.
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News
Euromoney splashes out
Euromoney has taken 17,000 sq ft of expansion space at a Threadneedle’s 29 Ludgate Hill in the City of London.
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News
Sainsbury’s Edinburgh festival
Edinburgh’s office market has been buoyed by Sainsbury’s Bank’s decision to double its space in the city with a 83,000 sq ft office prelet.
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News
L&G joins south-east specs drive
Legal & General Property is to speculatively develop a 70,000 sq ft office property in Staines, in a further indication of the growing recovery of the south-east office market.
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Professional
Dominoes in effect at Trinity Square
An unusual art installation made up of more than 4,000 dominoes has been unveiled at Investream’s 113,000 sq ft Trinity Square office scheme in Hounslow.
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Markets
Local developers exorcise Irish ghost estates
Success of residential auctions in Ireland sign of renewed optimism. Nick Johnstone reports
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Professional
Procurement: no cure but some relief from the pain
Doctor I am sorry, sir. You have a procurement problem.
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Markets
New Crest for London Irish
Crest Nicholson has agreed a four-year sponsorship tie-up with London Irish Rugby Club, whereby the housebuilder becomes the club’s partner in the redevelopment of its Sunbury training ground.
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Markets
Summer sale is a sign of things to come
The new, more positive attitude among property lenders is probably best illustrated by the fact that one ran a “summer sale”, during which borrowers pay no lender or bank legal fees for loans approved in July and August.
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News
Standard Life tunes in to QVC’s Chiswick HQ
Standard Life is to buy television shopping channel QVC’s headquarters at Chiswick Park in west London for a sum above the asking price, in one of the most hotly contested office transactions outside central London.
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News
Former JLL chief exits
The former UK chief executive of Jones Lang LaSalle, Andrew Gould, is to leave the firm.
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News
Crown jeweller heads to Cardiff
Clogau Gold, the jeweller that sourced the Welsh gold in Kate Middleton’s wedding ring, is to open a flagship store at Intu and Land Securities’ St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff.