All Property Week articles in 25 July 2008 – Page 10
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Online
London has 30m sq ft of empty offices
Central London’s office market for the first half of the year suffered a 50% fall in take-up, says research company CoStar.
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News
Rocksure Propertys Bravo Fund raises £3.8m of equity
Rocksure Property’s Bravo Fund, which gives private investors the chance to own luxury residential schemes in Thailand (pictured) and the rest of the world, has raised £3.8m of equity from 20 investors.
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Markets
Exeter masterplan to treble airport’s passengers by 2030
Balfour Beatty to expand terminal and increase retail and leisure facilities at Devon airport
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Professional
Ackerman wins court case over £14m property buy
Judge accuses vendor of fabricating document to claim he was owed extra payments
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Markets
Big Yellow raises £14.9m with growth in sight
Big Yellow Group, the self-storage REIT, has sold four trade sites to its joint venture with Pramerica Real Estate Investors to raise more than £10m for further expansion.
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Professional
Entrepreneurs’ ideas on how to spend the £10m prizes in Bank of Scotland and Property Week’s £30m search for entrepreneurs
With entry to Bank of Scotland Corporate and Property Week’s £30m Search for Property Entrepreneurs closed, Lydia Stockdale asks nine entrepreneurs what they would do with a £10m interest-free loan
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Markets
First Base mad for Barking with £1.4bn partnership
Joint venture would create first of government’s local housing companies
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Online
London Development Agency ponders £1bn Olympic legacy
Agency weighs up asset-backed vehicle to tempt private sector regeneration partners
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Insight
Never again should London be governed by a mayor's whims, 18.07.2008
Sir, Steven Norris is talking complete crap in his column.
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Insight
Tesco kills competition, say St Albans planners, 18.07.08
Sir, Thanks for this story. On behalf of Stop Tesco St Albans, can I point out that, as well as St Albans Civic Society’s petition, more than 1,400 people submitted written objections to Tesco, which I hope puts the two in favour into perspective.
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Insight
Heritage bill ‘will make life impossible’, 17.07.08
This proposal is fundamentally flawed. We have a housing shortage.
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Professional
Case news: Camden v Leaseholders of 30-40 Grafton Way (30.06.08) and Crown v Persimmon Homes Teesside (01.07.08)
Jonathan Ross shows how Camden taxpayers will pay for a council’s failure to consult tenants, while Warren Gordon reports on a claim that a planning decision was biased
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Markets
An unnamed occupier has prelet 70,000 sq ft at Gallan Park
An unnamed occupier has prelet 70,000 sq ft at developer Gallan Group’s speculative 275,000 sq ft mixed-use 14 acre Gallan Park.
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Online
P&O wins battle but not war for £1bn Waterloo plans
Lambeth Council has said it is minded to grant planning consent for a £1bn scheme at London’s Waterloo station.
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Online
Miller Developments sells share in Leeds development
Miller Developments has sold its interest in the redevelopment of Halifax’s Broad Street site in Leeds to its joint venture partner Gregory Property Group.
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News
Housing gloom hardened by weak lending
Mortgage lending weakened again last month as housing transactions became more tortuous and housebuilders resorted to ever more desperate measures to attract buyers, a range of economic data showed yesterday.
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News
Landlords defend rental practices
The UK’s largest landlords have hit back at demands from retail tenants to change to monthly rental payments, saying they would consider the change 'where tenants are in genuine financial difficulty'.
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News
Taylor Wimpey in debt talks
Taylor Wimpey has hired NM Rothschild to negotiate a covenant waiver with its lenders.
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News
MPs urge more planners
The Government could fail to hit its targets for house building and regeneration because of 'chronic problems' in the planning system.