All Property Week articles in 27 August 2004
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WHSmith and Virgin strike high street mobile phone deal
WHSmith and Virgin Mobile today announced they had reached agreement to add Virgin Mobile Specialist concessions to eight of the high-street stationers’ stores across Britain.
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Brum celebrates as 1 Colmore Square goes for £90m
Anglo Irish Private Banking today announced it had bought 1 Colmore Square in Birmingham for £90m – the city’s largest office transaction this year.
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Green light for £94m Dartford retail scheme
St James’s Investments today announced it had received a resolution to grant planning permission for a £94m retail redevelopment scheme in Dartford, Kent.
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Tchenguiz group Consensus acquires £300m office bag
Vincent Tchenguiz’s Consensus Business Group today announced it had completed the acquisition of six office properties in London and Middlesex for £300m.
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MarketsTesting times
Animal rights activists have cost the UK £1bn in lost investment. Now they have taken the protest to MEPC’s Granta Park.
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InsightProperty’s sex timebomb
A string of high-profile sexual harassment cases have stunned the City in recent months. Angela Monaghan asks if similar scandals will hit the property industry
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The only way is up
With talk of a recovery in the air for the UK business parks, the 11th annual IPD/Strutt & Parker Business Parks Index report for 2003 shows how low the sector fell.
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Networkers
Who’s worked with whom at Strutt & Parker Founded more than 120 years ago, the company’s partnership with developer Arlington Securities was instrumental in introducing business parks to the UK
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Stuck in the middle
Sir, Michael Ashley-Brown’s article gave a simplistic impression of how City rent reviews are determined.
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Top marks for surveyors
This story is for those surveyors among you who were on holiday in August and missed the publication of the vital Construction Consultants Key Performance Indicators Handbook 2004. Sponsored by an extraordinary array of acronyms – the RICS, DTI, ACE, RIBA, ICE, CIOB and CIBSE – it shows that surveyors ...
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Prudential takes Thames Valley surplus off market
Prudential has ditched plans to sublet a large office building in Reading, in the latest move by a Thames Valley occupier to reabsorb surplus space. Prudential was set to market the 76,900 sq ft (7,144 sq m) Abbey Gardens South on Kings Road in Reading, and had appointed Knight ...
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RICS sends legal opinion on self-regulation to Treasury
Institution continues fight to wrest powers over insurance regulation of surveyors from FSA
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Professional
The law made simple: limited use
The message: tenants must be aware that their use of premises could be limited by other tenants in the same building or scheme.The case: John and Hetty Williams v Christopher Riley, trading as CK Supermarkets, is a long-running dispute between adjoining tenants in a parade of shops in Swansea. It ...
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Latest letting lifts Leeds office market
Law firm Cobbetts takes 50,000 sq ft at Town Centre’s Whitehall Riverside
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The rise of the private investor
‘High net worth’ individuals now own more property worldwide than institutions
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Housing targets ‘may not be met’
Housing output is unlikely to reach the government’s targets unless policymakers react to changing market conditions whereby building and section 106 costs are eroding developers’ profits, says FPDSavills.
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Hammerson unlocks space at South Quay
Hammerson has secured two lettings at its Harbour Exchange development in London Docklands’ South Quay.
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Hammerson’s hot half-year
Hammerson’s £2.7bn UK office and retail portfolio jumped 6.5% in value in the first half of the year, driven by hardening yields.
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MarketsGothic storeys
Manhattan Loft is finally preparing to restore St Pancras Chambers to its original use as a hotel.
