All Property Week articles in 27 August 1999 – Page 3
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News
Industry sets agenda to lobby Parliament
Stamp duty, the Urban Task Force and the Commercial Property Code have been identified by property industry groups as key lobbying issues for the new parliamentary sitting in October. According to Richard Kauntze, BPF deputy-director-general: Stamp Duty is the big issue and will remain so. The BPF ...
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Professional
Age of uncertainty
Stakeholder pensions are the government's latest big idea for improving pension provision. But will they be suitable for small surveying practices and their staff?
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Markets
Swindon’s Civic pride helps all
If there s an uglier Town Centre in Britain than Swindon, I ve never seen it. Mind you, it doesn t seem to do the place much harm. While to the public at large the town is best known for Melinda Messenger and Glenn Hoddle, Swindon has ...
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US-style ‘conduit’ issue has landed
Morgan Stanley has completed Europe s first Conduit commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issue the sort of deal that is commonplace in the US. The securitisation of £169m of bonds is backed by 13 loans on a range of property throughout the UK. To ...
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Markets
Proud history – hope for the future
If, like me, you used to commute on the rickety old BedPan Line from Hertfordshire to St Pancras, you can hardly fail to notice that the landscape around much of the trip but especially between West Hampstead and Hendon is now hardly recognisable. The City of ...
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Grosvenor’s £49m princely purchase
Grosvenor Estate Holdings, the Duke of Westminster s property company, has made the first open-market acquisition through its £300m limited partnership the Arkle fund. Set up in April 1998, the fund has snapped up Boots Properties Land of the Prince Bishops shopping centre ...
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M25 rents set for a new high
A squeeze on supply, combined with strong demand in the M25 office market, is expected to see rents break through the £320/sq m (£30/sq ft) barrier within the next six months. The latest market bulletin from Richard Ellis St Quintin also showed that serviced office providers have ousted the financial ...
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Professional
Appealing issues for 2000
Appeals The government's proposals for changes to the appeals system have been broadly welcomed by the property industry. But many have expressed reservations about the potential increase in red tape.
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News
£15m Hampstead mansion sign of better times
Three comeback wizards will have mixed memories of Spaniards Field, the mansion on London s Hampstead Heath whose brochures alone cost £50,000. The first is Godfrey Bradman, who paid around £2m in 1985 to turn the derelict hulk into a sumptuous home before succumbing to planning objections and ...
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