All Property Week articles in 26 May 2006 – Page 2

  • Professional

    Hammering homes

    26 May 2006

    Planning minister Yvette Cooper last week reaffirmed her support for a development land tax. How will this affect housing? Mark Shepherd reports. Illustration by Matt Pattinson

  • News

    Sellar Property Group

    26 May 2006

    Irvine Sellar's Sellar Property Group has bought the Queen's Hotel in Brighton, lifting the value of its six-strong hotels portfolio to more than £100m. Sellar is understood to have paid around £10m for the three-star 93-room hotel opposite Brighton Pier. It has conference rooms, a bar/restaurant complex, swimming pool and ...

  • Markets

    Gestitres SA

    26 May 2006

    Gestitres SA, part of financial business Group Caisse d'Epargne, has taken 91,500 sq ft (8,500 sq m) at Standard Life 's Cap de Seine offices at Ivry Port in Paris at €265/sq m (£16.87/sq ft) on a nine-year lease. Newport acted for Standard Life; CB Richard Ellis acted ...

  • News

    Watts joins Insight resi fund

    26 May 2006

    Insight Investment has recruited Tim Watts, former head of residential property fund management at Savills, to lead its new residential fund management business.

  • Insight

    French U-turn scores nul points for industry

    26 May 2006

    The politics of property, with Steven Norris

  • News

    Olivia Lumley and Marcus Freed

    26 May 2006

    Olivia Lumley and Marcus Freed, actors from London-based City Drama, performed in a workshop on the branding of REITs at the British Council for Offices conference in Dublin two weeks ago. In a session chaired by Kingsley Lipsey Morgan's Howard Morgan and Property Week editor Giles Barrie, they acted ...

  • News

    France

    26 May 2006

    Arlington buys French parks for 55.7m Gestitres SA Vive les diffrences Bare-faced chic Harbouring doubts Bare-faced chic Harbouring doubts A logistical move Thrill de France Slough to expand Wales's oldest industrial estate ...

  • News

    Quintain in hunt for UK's first supercasino

    26 May 2006

    Quintain's regeneration schemes in Wembley and Greenwich are up against six rivals to win the right to develop the UK's first ‘supercasino'.

  • Markets

    Slough to expand Wales's oldest industrial estate

    26 May 2006

    Developer plans 80,000 sq ft for Treforest despite glut of unoccupied secondhand space

  • Online

    Environmental services

    26 May 2006

    Waste disposal should be seen as a standard development cost

  • Markets

    Harbouring doubts

    26 May 2006

    Developers Gazeley and ProLogis have renewed their focus on Le Havre and Dunkirk, but expensive port taxes and complex labour relations could put off occupiers. Anna Goldie reports

  • Markets

    Vive les différences

    26 May 2006

    The French retail and retail investment markets are a world away from their UK counterparts. Anna Goldie reports

  • Professional

    Diary of... a project manager

    26 May 2006

    Nigel Wheeler, chairman of management services at Jones Lang LaSalle, takes us through his week

  • Bank statement: the Bank of England is concerned that lenders are overlooking the economy’s long-term vulnerability
    Insight

    Debt wish

    26 May 2006

    De Montfort University's latest bank lending study shows property's outstanding debt is continuing to soar.

  • Markets

    Thrill de France

    26 May 2006

    Paris investment is booming but pressure on rents could freeze the market. Anna Goldie reports

  • Markets

    David the goliath

    26 May 2006

    The £535m St David's 2 development in Cardiff will transform the Hayes from a secondary retail pitch.

  • News

    Standard Life's Czech entree

    26 May 2006

    Standard Life Investments has made its first central European purchase in the Czech Republic.

  • News

    Cushman's Farthing finds it's tough at the top

    26 May 2006

    There is a sad ending to Harry Farthing's attempt to climb Everest.

  • Ringmaster: Sirio Maccioni (left) with singer Tony Bennett and guest at Le Cirque opening last week
    News

    Manhattan view: Steve Cuozzo: Vornado is the glitziest REIT in town

    26 May 2006

    Chief executive Steven Roth can claim famous eaterie Le Cirque as his ‘glammest' address, says New York Post executive editor Steve Cuozzo

  • News

    Crushman & Wakefield

    26 May 2006

    Cushman & Wakefield's Edinburgh office has really gone to town with its latest office leasing instruction.