All Property Week articles in 26 August 2005

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  • Online

    Mucklow submits plans for Birmingham mixed-use scheme

    2005-08-26T16:12:00Z

    A&J Mucklow Group has submitted its largest-ever outline planning application, for a 500,000 sq ft (46,451 sq m) mixed-use scheme in Birmingham.

  • Online

    Marconi takes Coventry shed

    2005-08-26T13:37:00Z

    Communications group Marconi has signed up for an 80,600 sq ft (7,490 sq m) industrial unit in Coventry.

  • Professional

    Who’s suing whom

    26 August 2005

    Broken homes

  • News

    Shopping in the shade

    26 August 2005

    Going shopping during the summer in big modern malls can be a nightmare. Apart from trying to avoid hoodies, the central square of these centres is often covered by glass that makes the area swelter like a greenhouse.

  • Markets

    Retail rents on the rise

    26 August 2005

    Retail rental growth in north London soared by up to a third in the last year according to the latest figures from Colliers CRE.

  • Work house: 19th-century industrial buildings will be converted into modern offices in Laundry Yard at Regent Quarter
    Markets

    Testing the Quarter

    26 August 2005

    Its purchase of the Regent Quarter puts LaSalle Investment Management at the forefront of the King’s Cross regeneration.

  • Higher power: Trinity College’s Cambridge Science Park is the top-performing business park
    Markets

    Prime time

    26 August 2005

    The Strutt & Parker/IPD Business Park Index report published today profiles the changing fortunes of business parks.

  • News

    Renzo Piano

    26 August 2005

    These new images of the Renzo Piano-designed 1,016 ft (310 m) London Bridge Tower give a first clue as to the interior of the building.

  • News

    Over the top

    26 August 2005

    Topping-out ceremonies for offices usually involve quaffing champagne and chatting idly about whether the occupational market is coming back.

  • Insight

    Networkers

    26 August 2005

    North London and West End consultant surveyor Lee Baron was established 24 years ago.

  • Professional

    Maximum security

    26 August 2005

    Safeguarding against terrorism is a top priority for the property industry. Ettie Neil-Gallacher reports below on the role of property managers. On p67 Mark Jansen looks at the importance of building design

  • Moving in: Quadrant in Queen’s Park is now fully let
    Markets

    The market in minutes

    26 August 2005

    Anna Goldie gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Studio time: a ‘sustainable’ strategy may mean Leavesden Park diversifies away from film studio and office uses (pictured)
    Markets

    MEPC’s magician

    26 August 2005

    Sustainable development guru Rick De Blaby is conjuring up a mixed-use strategy for business park developer MEPC.

  • Castles in the air: AIC held a lavish Christmas party at Ashby Castle just months before PBS collapse
    Insight

    Lost property

    26 August 2005

    Hundreds of private investors who poured millions of pounds into a Mayfair-based ‘wealth creator’ are now heading for the courts in an attempt to recover their losses. Sinead Cruise investigates the case of Portfolio Building Services

  • Insight

    Property Week Super League

    26 August 2005

    Finally, the wait is over.

  • Professional

    Law Society pack warning

    26 August 2005

    The Law Society has warned property lawyers not to sign up with companies offering online templates for home information packs.

  • News

    Multiplex man joins LandSecs

    26 August 2005

    Lester Hampson is leaving Multiplex to join Land Securities as development director of the £535m St David’s 2 shopping centre scheme in Cardiff.

  • News

    Slough’s Sir Nigel Mobbs’ illness worsens

    26 August 2005

    Sir Nigel Mobbs is seriously ill in hospital.

  • Markets

    Housing slide starts to slow

    26 August 2005

    Decline in house prices has eased and sales have increased

  • Markets

    Kenmore Homes

    26 August 2005

    Kenmore Homes has converted the upper floors of the former McIlroys department store, an Edwardian building in the centre of Reading, Berkshire, into 58 homes. The flats have all been sold off plan to Braemar Investment Management, which plans to rent them out. The scheme also includes eight flats ...