All Property Week articles in 25 August 2006 – Page 2
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Markets
Winning the franchise
Winkworth pioneered franchising in estate agency, but will the increasingly popular model help or hinder the government’s crackdown on rogue agents?
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News
Scottish Widows sets sail in Fletcher King’s SHIPS
Fletcher King has sold the SHIPS portfolio to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership for £24.78m.
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Financial services
Demand for business parks, particularly from banks, is improving. But GVA Grimley research shows rental growth is lagging.
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InsightIn the eye of the storm
Erinaceous chief executive Neil Bellis hopes to put a difficult year behind him by rebranding and floating on the FTSE.
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Professional
High streets feel the sting of e-tail
But ‘clicks’ will never replace ‘bricks’, says Susan Freeman
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News
ING Real Estate
ING Real Estate Investment Management is to submit plans to redevelop Scottish Provident’s former headquarters at St Andrew Square in Edinburgh. Part of the offices will be demolished to create retail, offices and flats. The category A-listed parts of the square and the category B-listed 6 and 7 St Andrew ...
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Gazeley razes Enfield site for logistics park
Gazeley has begun demolition work at its logistics park site in Enfield, where it plans a 360,000 sq ft (3,345 sq m) shed.
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Educating reita
Last week’s launch of the Reita (pronounced Rita) campaign represents the property industry’s umpteenth attempt to educate the fraternity of Independent Financial Advisers about the world of property.
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NewsGVA Grimley has no trouble with doubles
To the Esporta club in Northwood, Middlesex, the other day to watch some agents hitting balls.
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Royal Mail despatches sites
Royal Mail is to sell off 130 of its vacant sites and complete a sale and leaseback on a further 180 sites in a bid to raise cash.
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European expansion demands a Coull head
Entry to the FTSE 100 is evidence of Slough Estates’ growing momentum
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Professional
Diary of...a planning consultant
Roger Hepher, director of Hepher Dixon, takes us through his week
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News
Peel goes cold on Coal
Peel Holdings, the property and transport group owned by John Whittaker, said this week it had no intention of making an offer for UK Coal, the property-rich company in which it has built up a 7% stake.
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Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council has granted planning consent for Vermont Developments’ £100m mixed-use Sefton Street Quarter scheme. The 2 acre (0.8 ha) industrial site will house an upmarket hotel and 22-storey residential tower, 374 homes and 36,000 sq ft (3,344 sq m) of office, leisure and retail space.
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Westminster City Council
Westminster City Council has granted planning consent to the Blackstone Group to convert eight properties in Grosvenor Crescent, Belgravia, from offices into flats. The 70,000 ft (6,503 sq m) 3-10 Grosvenor Crescent, built in the 1830s as private homes, was the headquarters of the British Red Cross for ...
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Chelsea Prada shop sold
A private investor has bought two upmarket shops in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighbourhood for £16.7m.
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Hot and cheap shots
It has been hot in the City of London this summer, but some have suffered more than most.
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MarketsChange on the menu
Colindale’s Oriental City, where north London’s Far Eastern communities eat, meet and shop, is set for a makeover.
