All Property Week articles in 25 October 2002 – Page 2

  • News

    Expo Real preview

    25 October 2002

  • Markets

    Swindon industrial: Swindon's occupier exodus

    25 October 2002

    Big employers have been leaving Swindon in their droves. But not everything is doom and gloom

  • News

    RICS: tax reforms could deter overseas investors

    25 October 2002

    Property investors will be 'severely penalised' by the government's plans to shake up the corporation tax regime, the RICS has warned.

  • Markets

    Regeneration: A guide to good design

    25 October 2002

    Commercial advantage can be best achieved through good design, says George Ferguson (pictured). We talk to the president-elect of the Royal Institute of British Architects

  • Professional

    Self-serving or customer serving?

    25 October 2002

    Tenant satisfaction should be a landlord's top priority

  • News

    Hounslow council defies office slump

    25 October 2002

    The London Borough of Hounslow will vacate its Brentford offices next month having sold the 1936 premises for more than £1m above the reserve at Colliers CRE's auction on 15 October.

  • News

    Mixed uses pay at Pugh & Co

    25 October 2002

    A Lincolnshire investment company paid £385,000 for a mixed-use scheme with six shops at Pembroke Place, London Road, Liverpool, at Pugh & Co's auction on 16 October.

  • News

    Inner city

    25 October 2002

    There are no better industries than real estate for demonstrating the benefits of the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) principle.

  • News

    Esso building offer

    25 October 2002

    The flood of private money into the investment market has continued with private clients of a Kuwaiti bank placing Friends Ivory & Sime's building at 21 Dartmouth Street, London SW1, under offer.

  • Markets

    Retail: Comer challenges Broadmead

    25 October 2002

    Comer Homes' plans for Bristol's Tollgate House pose a threat to the Bristol Alliance's Broadmead scheme.

  • Markets

    Bristol offices: No specs please, we're Bristol

    25 October 2002

    The dearth of speculative development is causing take-up levels in Bristol to drop.

  • Markets

    Brighton cinema site for redevelopment

    25 October 2002

    A 0.2 ha (0.5 acre) Brighton cinema site is being redeveloped by Bryant Homes as a four-storey mixed-use scheme, with penthouse apartments over commercial space. The 3,293 sq m (35,441 sq ft) of commercial space in the North Street development is divided into three retail units that will ...

  • News

    New EH boss slams 'short-sighted' Ken

    25 October 2002

    The new chief executive of English Heritage this week criticised London mayor Ken Livingstone's 'short-sighted' Draft London Plan, saying that development in the capital must recognise the 'historic character' of the city.

  • Professional

    How to ... Innovate to boost occupancy levels

    25 October 2002

    It used to be said that when a serviced office operator hit 75% occupancy it broke even. If it reached 85% it would be raking in the cash. Today, average occupancy has risen well above the 75% threshold, but the trouble is, operators have discounted their rates by up to ...

  • News

    Cardiff Gate's consent boost

    25 October 2002

    Cardiff Gate Business Park is set for office expansion after winning planning consent.

  • Insight

    The cracks begin to show

    25 October 2002

    Until now the investment market has avoided the chill felt in the office sector, where demand and rents are falling. But now banks are starting to freeze over too.

  • News

    Battersea Power Station hotel plans revealed

    25 October 2002

    Parkview has revealed details of its plans for the hotel element of its £500m redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London. Architect Arup Associates has designed two five-star hotels (pictured), one to the east and one to the west, with 1,100 rooms in total. Lend Lease is working on ...

  • News

    Bristol, Bath & Swindon

    25 October 2002

  • Markets

    Bath regeneration: A little local difficulty

    25 October 2002

    Bath and North East Somerset Council plans a mixed-use scheme on 50 acres of brownfield land. But one of the site's landowners has other ideas.

  • Markets

    Bristol, Bath and Swindon: Talk of the towns

    25 October 2002

    No bank statement … Swindon shopping … Rugger buggers … Bath prostitutes itself … Ryder Cup wannabees … twins pique … Bristol architects