All Property Week articles in 27 July 2007 – Page 5
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InsightTo catch a thief
Last week the Serious Fraud Office’s annual report detailed how it hunted down £34m stolen by property fraudster Gerald Smith. Samantha Warrington sifts through the evidence
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News
Laidlaw left waiting as sale casts shadows over Cordatus’s future
Cordatus Partners, the fund management company set up by former Scottish Widows Investment Partnership property duo, Tom Laidlaw and Mike Channing, faces an uncertain future.
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NewsLend Lease charges into Elephant and Castle
Australian developer of Olympic Village pips St Modwen to create ‘Piccadilly Circus’ of south London
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ProfessionalCase news
Jonathan Ross hears how an estate agent was entitled to commission for introducing a buyer and seller, while Warren Gordon examines a battle over proceeds from a house sale
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NewsCanadians scent UK debut in Manchester
Fruits & Passion to take on Molton Brown and eyes Covent Garden next
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Crown Estate buys Windsor hotel
The Crown Estate has bought Ye Harte and Garte Hotel in Windsor for £26m a net initial yield of 5.25%.
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Quinlan buys Frankfurt hotel
Irish private equity company Quinlan Private has bought 50% of a €60m (£40m) Frankfurt city centre office and hotel developed by FOM Real Estate and leased to NH Hotels.
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Cushman buys US finance group
Cushman & Wakefield has bought property banking specialist Sonnenblick Goldman for an undisclosed sum.
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Dawnay Day Treveria completes seventh buyback
AIM-listed investment company Dawnay Day Treveria completed its seventh share buyback this week. It has now bought back just over €30m (£20m) of its own shares.
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Scots fund’s retail buy
AWG Property and WG Mitchell’s Scottish property fund has bought a retail and leisure complex in west Edinburgh for £23.3m.
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Empire builders:
Empire builders: Australian developer Multiplex recommended that investors accept Canadian asset management company Brookfield Asset Management's AUS$7.3bn (£3.1bn) takeover bid this week. Multiplex is building the Castle House resi and retail tower (pictured) at a cost of £100m near the Elephant and Castle regeneration scheme, to be led by fellow ...
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Bruton Street gets fashionable
Diane von Furstenberg, the fashion designer famous for her wrap dresses, is set to open her first UK store on Bruton Street in London’s West End later this year.
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Prupim’s Brum retail park buy
Prupim has bought the 170,000 sq ft Castle Vale Retail Park in Birmingham for £90m for the M&G Property Portfolio.
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NewsBritish Land shores up Meadowhall flood defences
British Land reviews protection of £1.7bn asset as sale timetable changes
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Professional
Breeam must be tougher if it is to lead the world
A shake-up of the green assessment scheme is long overdue
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MarketsCandys in High Court branding row
Luxury residential developer Candy & Candy is suing a firm of east London builders accused of stealing its name. The firm, led by brothers Nick and Christian Candy, is taking rival sibling team Peter and Paul Magri, of the Magri Group, to court over their 60-apartment residential development ‘Candy Wharf’. ...
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B&Q buys its Hedge End store
DIY retailer B&Q has bought the freehold of its Hedge End store in Southampton for £32m from Legal & General. The 98,060 sq ft store has non-food planning consent costs £17/sq ft to rent.
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Wilson Bowden uncoils Notts mixed-use scheme
Wilson Bowden Developments has unveiled plans for a 2m sq ft office, industrial and distribution scheme close to the M1 in Nottingham.
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Commercial buys in Bolton
Manchester-based property investment company Property Route has spent £10m buying two commercial developments in Bolton. It has bought 56,000 sq ft overall in Churchgate and on Princess Street.
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Scottish Widows board to opt for cash exit
Scottish Widows Unit Funds announced on Monday that it would not obstruct GE’s purchase of the trust at the centre of a legal row, which is set to continue.
