All Property Week articles in 27 April 2012 – Page 7
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Insight
Planning framework is more lawyers’ charter than developers’ friend
In the promotion battle between developers and countryside campaigners, the final unveiling of the National Planning Policy Framework represented, at best, a scrappy draw but, more likely, a narrow win for amateurs National Trust FC over Big Builders United.
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News
Shopping centre pipeline slashed
Around 27m sq ft of shopping centre space has disappeared from the development pipeline since the onset of the recession, research by shopping centre body BCSC has found.
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News
CBRE counts European losses
CBRE’s European division made an operating loss of $11.3m in the first quarter of the year.
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Markets
Care home seeks sanctuary in Telford
Following the sale of a 1.1 acre site o Sanctuary Group in March, work will begin on the £8m Extra Care assisted living residential scheme at Lawley Village next month.
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Markets
Canning Town fizzing with private rental flats
Thames Valley Housing Association’s pioneering private rental subsidiary, Fizzy Living, has made its second purchase.
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News
Chicago supermall is Rosenberg’s maiden buy for KKR
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has completed its first real estate purchase since hiring ex-Goldman Sachs director Ralph Rosenberg last year to form a new team.
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Markets
Brum property people disenfranchised from mayoral vote
Electorate only extends to city centre, not to those who live in suburbs. Sarah Stewart reports
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Markets
Brum property people disenfranchised from mayoral vote
Electorate only extends to city centre, not to those who live in suburbs. Sarah Stewart reports
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News
Liz Peace - chief executive of the British Property Federation
If you don’t know Liz Peace, then you don’t know property. The chief executive of the British Property Federation has spent the past decade lobbying on behalf of the industry to the government on such property-related issues as empty rates, stamp duty, planning and even flood risk insurance.
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Markets
Realis bites into Stoke retail scheme
With the first phase of development under way, the developer of the £350m City Sentral retail scheme in Stoke-on-Trent is now negotiating a compulsory purchase order and preparing to submit a detailed planning application on the main part of the scheme this summer.
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Markets
Birmingham in fashion for investors
DTZ buys £16m first phase of Caxtongate and Temple Street mixed-use asset on market for £6.34m. Sarah Stewart reports
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Markets
Q+A: Trebor prepares Grand opening in Birmingham
Bob Tattrie, managing director of Birmingham-based Trebor Developments (so called because it is his name backwards) spoke to Sarah Stewart about the redevelopment of the Grand Hotel on Colmore Row in the city centre and its other plans
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News
Blackstone’s billions
Equity-raising target of $12bn would make latest fund real estate’s largest ever
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News
Blackstone’s big box bonanza
US real estate firm to buy from Barclay brothers as part of £600m industrial property spree
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News
Loughborough Olympic bid
Loughborough University has teamed up with iCity, one of the two remaining bidders for the Olympic International Press and Broadcast Centres from 2013, and plans to create a new research campus at the site.
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News
Best thing since sliced bread
Argent is to lay on a series of outdoor events at its King’s Cross Central scheme over the summer, in a bid to attract people to the north London development.
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News
Lucinda Bell - finance director at British Land
Bell joined the REIT in 2001 as head of tax and accounting.
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Markets
Retailers’ talk is tough, but big landlords drive a hard bargain
Tough negotiations continue on UK’s struggling high streets. Rachel Hunter reports