All Property Week articles in 25 June 2010 – Page 2
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Law firm Halliwells cites "property obligations" as factor as it faces administration
Law firm Halliwells has filed a notice to appoint an administrator and suggested that high operating costs are a factor in its difficulties.
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Lloyds to sell major Edinburgh site
Lloyds Banking Group is set to sell a site in Edinburgh which was once earmarked as a new headquarters for part of the bank in the Scottish capital.
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Council asset sales set to rise 17% this year
Public sector earnings from the sale of assets such as council buildings are set to increase by 17% this year to £1.4bn, official figures show.
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Tesco loses appeal over Liverpool regeneration scheme
A legal challenge by Tesco, which was blocking a major regeneration scheme in Liverpool, has been rejected by the High Court.
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Barclays Corporate backs Liverpool’s Iliad Group
Barclays Corporate has provided senior debt finance to Liverpool-based developer the Iliad Group to develop a £38m student property development near Aston University in Birmingham.
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Tim Wheeler Blog: Day 10 Chambery - Gap 180km 3600m ascent
Thunder in the Mountains and HTFU !
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Two weeks left to book breakfast with McCready, Salway and Lipton
Calling all public and private sector property professionals. Do you fancy breakfast with Property Unit chief John McCready, Sir Stuart Lipton and Francis Salway?
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Former Phoenix Beard head Roger Poynton dies
Roger Poynton, former managing director of Birmingham’s Phoenix Beard Property Consultants, has died at the age of 62.
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Hammerson buys Brookfield Europe’s stake in Cricklewood project
Hammerson has bought Brookfield Europe’s stake in the £4.5bn Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration scheme in West London.
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Tesco to carry out £950m property securitisation
Tesco is planning a £950m property securitisation in the latest phase of its programme to release value from its UK property portfolio.
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Government tells councils to set up local enterprise partnerships
RDA replacements will have responsibility for planning, housing, transport and infrastructure. Local authorities have until 6 September to draw up plans for partnering with businesses.
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Park Plaza completes on 360 room sales at Westminster Bridge apart-hotel
Hotel owner and operator Park Plaza has completed 360 sales of rooms at its recently opened Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London.
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British Property Federation: Summary of Government Policies Relevant to Property Industry
The Government believes that it is time for a fundamental shift of power from Westminster to people, promoting decentralisation and democratic engagement, and ending the era of top-down government by giving new powers to local councils, communities, neighbourhoods and individuals.
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Replace quangos with green bank, says Wigley commission
Quangos including the Carbon Trust and the Energy Technologies Institute should be scrapped to fund a new green investment bank, according to government adviser Bob Wigley, chair of the Green Investment Bank Commission and Yell.com.
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Terrace Hill begins marketing residential property fund
Terrace Hill and Aegon have begun marketing for a residential investment fund that will be seeded with some of Terrace Hill’s assets.
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PWTV: Savills chief executive on biking for charity
Hundreds of bicyclists will set off from Savills’ Finsbury Circus offices next September for an arduous 65-mile bike ride from London to Cambridge for disadvantaged children’s charity The Honeypot.
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Minerva secures £107.5m of luxury apartment sales
Minerva, the London commercial and residential developer, said this morning that it had sold 11 apartments at its Lancaster Gate scheme, overlooking Hyde Park, for £107.5m.
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Tim Wheeler blog: Day 9 Morzine-St Jean de Maurienne 204 km
A grand daddy of a day! 4 major climbs and 4800m of ascent taking the last 2 days to 8400m of climbing-think nearly Everest in scale at 8848 m (with another 3600m on top in prospect today) - see the image.
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Hollister: Live from Norwich
Abercrombie Fitch fashion brand Hollister has signed up at Capital Shopping Centre’s Chapelfield shopping centre in Norwich.
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REI on the move as Crabtree takes the chair
Real Estate Investors has announced two senior management appointments and a head office move.