All Property Week articles in 26 October 2012 – Page 4
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Online
Scottish Government approves Buchanan Quarter TIF scheme
Glasgow City Council’s plans to finance the £80m Buchanan Quarter scheme using the US-style funding mechanism tax increment financing (TIF)have been approved by the Scottish Government.
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Insight
Two more years of pain
The government’s shock decision to delay next year’s rating revaluation will heap further misery on struggling occupiers. Patrick Gower reports
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News
Shillaw swaps Lloyds for SWIP
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has appointed Lynda Shillaw as its new director of real estate.
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News
Move out of town? Nike just did it
Nike has signed to open its first out-of-town store in the UK, as part of a new strategy to expand its factory format onto retail parks.
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Professional
Local planning panel introduced by RICS
Senior planning and development professionals are being recruited for a government-backed advisory panel to sign off neighbourhood plans
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Professional
Need to Know: IBM’s ‘living lab’
IBM’s flagship technology and research centre in Dublin was intended to be the blueprint for a smart and sustainable building.
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News
Time Out of London HQ
Time Out is to leave its distinctive Tottenham Court Road headquarters (pictured) to relocate elsewhere in London’s West End.
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Insight
Will MWB rally, or could results send hotels sector tumbling?
Anyone familiar with the game domino rally, beloved of children everywhere before the invention of the Game Boy, probably has a fair idea of the challenge facing listed property company MWB and its lenders at the moment.
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News
Henderson’s mall overhaul
Henderson Global Investors has committed funds to two Spanish shopping centres, despite worries about the country’s economic status.
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News
Grosvenor takes pain in Spain
Joint venture faces €40m hit on sale of Madrid office park commenced at height of market
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News
UBS GRE UK takes senior role in property lending
New fund aims to raise £300m and fill gap left by banks exiting market
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News
Portas’s Hotel GB on the market
The lease of the four-star hotel that hosted Mary Portas and Gordon Ramsay’s Channel 4 TV series Hotel GB is up for sale.
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News
Fund managers primed to lend to property
Fund managers are currently on the road looking to raise debt funds that will total at least £10bn of new lending to the UK property market, Property Week Analytics’ Property Finance 2013 report can reveal.
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Professional
‘You have to follow the money'
Sean Tompkins wants to trade UK experience with overseas capital to cement the RICS’s relevance to property. Sarah Townsend spoke to him. Portrait by Trent McMinn
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Insight
Investors’ flight to quality helps turn up volume
UK investment market volumes increased by 5% in the third quarter, defying the consensus that the summer was a slow one for property.
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News
Retailer seeks southern shed to extend its Range
Expanding furniture and homeware retailer the Range has started to scour the south of England for sites able to accommodate another 750,000 sq ft distribution centre.
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Markets
Milton Keynes malls in race for expansion
Legal & General Property has submitted a planning application for a £15m extension to its 430,000 sq ft Midsummer Place shopping centre in Milton Keynes.
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News
Impotence, equality and laxatives: Wyatt’s parting shots
Claridge’s ballroom was a convivial place on Tuesday night for my old friend Adrian Wyatt’s leaving bash from Quintain.
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Insight
Inflection point: I can see light at the end of the tunnel
Are we now at a crossroads? Will we on some future date look back at this time and conclude that October — why is it always in October? — 2012 was the moment we began to believe.