All Property Week articles in 24 September 1999 – Page 3
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Markets
Notebook Grinning like a well-fed cat
Cheshire has developed into a veritable retail mecca, with retailers continuing to flock to the region.
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Insight
Case Study: Quinta da Fonte Office Park, Lisbon
When akeler , backed by US investor Security Capital, bought the first phase of the Quinta da Fonte business park from the Swedish fund Diligentia last September, it effectively kicked off international investment activity in the Portuguese office market. Now it has purchased the remaining land on the site and ...
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Markets
Case study Leeds: a city to be reckoned with
No longer London s poor relation, Leeds has become a thriving commercial centre.
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News
Call to protect out-of-towners
Knight Frank is calling for the traditional out-of-town retailer to be protected from the onslaught of high street shops. In Where Next for Retail Warehousing?, published last week, Knight Frank calls for the planning system to differentiate between out-of-town retail formats such as showrooms, trade counters, shops and retail ...
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News
First buy for Capital Business Parks
Development Securities opened its business parks joint venture with Equitable Life at Globeside Business Park in Marlow this week. The Thames Valley site will be the first joint development for Capital Business Parks, the new name for the £100m limited partnership. Development Securities has kicked off its expansion with ...
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News
BT retreat set to free up City office space
BT s property arm, Southgate Developments, is preparing to bail out of its last City development sites, unleashing more than 70,000 sq m (750,000 sq ft) of development space. As Property Week was going to press, the group was inviting five agencies to pitch for the instruction on Mondial ...
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News
McQueen is a West End boy
The ever-changing nature of the world of London s top fashion designers was illustrated this week when Alexander McQueen announced that he is to open in Conduit Street next month, while Christian Lacroix put his Sloane Street shop on the market. McQueen, who launched his collection in New ...
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Markets
Boom town stats
Warrington s economy just gets better and better but are obstacles around the corner?
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News
Lipton's blast from the past at King's Cross
Almost a decade after Stuart lipton jointly submitted a £3.5bn ill-fated application to redevelop King's Cross, he's back in the frame again. Lipton's company Stanhope is understood to be one of a handful of developers which London & Continental Railways is talking to about master planing and developing ...
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News
Green light for Big Yellow
The fledgling UK self-storage market received backing this week from one of property s biggest institutional investors, Prudential Insurance Company of America. Prudential paid £12m for a 20% stake in The Big Yellow Self Storage, the company set up last year by Nick Vetch and Philip Burk following ...
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News
Weatheralls begins to move back into Europe
Weatherall Green & Smith filled a large hole in its European office network this week by taking a stake in a German surveying firm. It has agreed terms to buy 20% of Herring Baker Harris Deutschland GmbH, which has offices in Berlin and Hamburg. The company, which will trade ...
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News
Tories attack Labour's property policy inertia
Conservatives meeting at a policy summit in Leeds this week have launched an all-out attack on Labour's record on property, planning and transport. Shadow DETR secretary John Redwood led the assault. In an article in today's Property Week, he attacks the government for creating delays in tackling ...
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News
Ashquay seeks Newport deal
Ashquay, the small Belfast-based property company headed by Harry Sproule, remains favourite to merge with Newport Holdings, saving Newport chief Peter Lewin from the clutches of Jack Petchey. Ashquay, capitalised at just £14m, is desperate to expand and is believed to be discussing a 150p-a-share all-paper offer for Newport, ...
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News
Dixon denies lack of sex appeal will stifle expansion
The City is prepared to back the flotations of loss-making internet companies, but a similarly fast-expanding serviced office company is just not sexy enough. Even before he began his promotional roadshow to institutions, Regus chief executive Mark Dixon realised that, while internet companies have been able to get ...
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News
Allied profits dented by lack of sales
Allied London Properties had a solid financial year, increasing net asset value by 10%, but profits were hit by the absence of serviced land sales. NAV rose from 146p to 160p in the year to 30 June after a 7% uplift in the value of the property portfolio. Including ...
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News
It all links up for Englander
Hammerson continues to juggle its central London portfolio with the £118m disposal of Holborn Links. As tipped in Property Week, (news, 6 August), Englander Group has completed the acquisition of the Duke of Bedford Estate, originally bought for £1m more than 50 years ago. Hammerson refused to reveal the ...
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