All Property Week articles in 24 March 2000 – Page 3
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Leisure Making fun of Birmingham
Birmingham has shrugged off its dowdy image as leisure developments make headway.
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Retail overview: the benefit of retail development is felt throughout the region
National trends have recently been visible in the West Midlands. The leisure and retail markets have continued to converge with the development of mixed-use schemes such as the Mailbox in Birmingham and Priory Place in Coventry. Gap has agreed terms with the Bull Ring and has recently opened a store ...
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Planning: the region is beginning to recognise the importance of new technology
The region s economy has long been dominated by manufacturing industry, with 27% of the local workforce directly employed in the sector. While restructuring has benefited some traditional manufacturing sectors, regional planning guidance acknowledges that the area must respond to new technologies and diversify into areas of manufacturing that demonstrate ...
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Beefed-up banks start London portfolios shake-out
Three banking giants took steps towards rationalising central London portfolios this week as consolidation in the sector begins to bite. Chase Manhattan is looking for new advisers as part of a review of its 6.04m sq m (65m sq ft) property portfolio. Knight Frank , Healey & Baker , Insignia ...
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Danescroft bags free freehold
Danescroft Commercial Developments, one of the six companies in the stable of venture capitalist Palmer Capital Partners, has acquired a £1m freehold office investment at no cost. Through an innovative financing deal, the tenant of Danescroft s building in Bishop s Stortford has paid in kind , rather ...
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Professional
Left holding the baby
Will the property industry offer more support than Manchester United did to the new EU directive giving parents 13 weeks of unpaid leave?
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Ex-Amec man Knott asks for partnerships
Ken Knott, until last year the driving force behind Amec Developments in Manchester, has launched his own firm, Ask Property Development. The venture has initial equity backing of £5m, which Knott plans to gear up. However, Knott is putting together a business plan and says the equity base will be ...
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Industrial Enough to go around?
With a severe shortage of land, the government continues to encourage the use of brownfield sites
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Planning: is there an opening for another factory outlet centre?
The ceramics industry in north Staffordshire continues its decline, and now it looks as though this will affect first division football team Port Vale, which may lose its training ground to B-class employment uses. More than 25ha (61 acres) of Green and brownfield land at Tunstall, previously home to ...
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On-line Waterstone’s goes off Oxford Circus flagship
Bookseller Waterstone s has ditched plans to open a giant store at Legal & General s Oxford Circus development amid fears that e-commerce will damage the high-street book market. The company signed a lease on the 3,720 sq m (40,000 sq ft) flagship outlet in July 1998, but then ...
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Kramer’s alternative
The City would be urged to find alternatives to tall buildings if Liberal Democrat Susan Kramer is elected Mayor of London. Speaking to Property Week, Kramer said that developers had nothing to fear from her as mayor. Unlike independent front-runner Ken Livingstone , Kramer pledges to use mayoral powers to ...
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LDP calls for mayor’s support
London s mayor will need to accelerate the process of breathing new life into strategic sites. The London economic development strategy, launched this week by the London Development Partnership, says that regeneration of King s Cross, Paddington and Elephant & Castle must be priorities when the mayor takes office. The ...
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Tenants must speak up – and swiftly
It's no use crying 'mistake' if tenants find themselves getting a raw deal – the onus is on them to prove that the landlord has deliberately taken advantage of an error or omission in the lease.
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Rotch and UAE in £75m petrol plan
Alliance provides Tchenguiz brothers with new funds to fuel expansion plans
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£60m Ashford refinancing is landmark bond issue...
John Laing Property's securitisation of Kent station PFI project allows tax transparency for investors
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...and Hammerson taps market for £200m
Hammerson joined a host of other companies tapping the bond market last Friday for long-term debt in euros, dollars and sterling. Hammerson issued £200m of 20-year bonds via Barclays Capital. They were priced at a margin of 225 basis points above the 8% gilt yield, due 2021, with ...
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£2bn race to beat duty rise
At least 20 deals squeeze through before Stamp Duty rise, including Green Property s £400m P&O portfolio acquisition
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Gordon buys £104m of LandSecs shares
Liberty International boss targets major property companies for share-buying spree
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£100m expansion for HQ serviced office partnership
Cash injection will fund growth of Mercury Asset Management and HQ’s serviced office operations in UK and Europe
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Chartwell posts 10% profit hike
Chartwell Land , the retail property subsidiary of retailer Kingfisher, benefited from the strong retail warehouse market to post a 10% increase in profits and a 15% property return in the year to 31 January. Operating profits were up to £76m and the total return to Kingfisher rose from £129m ...
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