All Property Week articles in 28 April 2000 – Page 3

  • News

    Shurgard to mount assault on UK market

    28 April 2000

    US REIT Shurgard is planning an assault on the UK self-storage market. Shurgard, which has 380 centres in the US and is the second-largest self-storage operator in Europe, intends to open between 50 and 60 centres in the UK in the next three to four years. Shurgard is a ...

  • Professional

    Traders of the lost art

    28 April 2000

    Sole practitioner or dole practitioner? That was the choice Anita Franks faced in 1990. David Thame tells her story, and asks whether sole surveying practitioners will survive the onslaught on their businesses from the big guns.

  • Markets

    Planning: developing a new approach

    28 April 2000

    A review of Regional Planning Guidance is the focus for strategic planners in the East Midlands. New draft guidance for 1996-2021 was the subject of public consultation and an Examination in Public is due in June. Sustainable development is a key theme: the aim is to avoid over-concentration of development ...

  • News

    Another delivery at Glasgow PO

    28 April 2000

    Glasgow s Post Office building in Ingram Street has changed hands for the third time in less than three years. The controversial site has been snapped up by a luxury residential developer, Crown Dilmun, after Aberdeen-based Jarlaw Developments scrapped its plans for a hotel. Crown Dilmun paid more than £8m ...

  • News

    Anglo directors buy out property

    28 April 2000

    Anglo St James directors David Elias and Alan Burden have agreed to buy out the company s property business and retain the name, as part of its transition into a biotechnology company. The new Anglo St James will still operate from Winchester and be privately owned. It will continue its ...

  • Markets

    Space is all tied up in Notts

    28 April 2000

    Space shortages mean that new-build and out-of-town developments are the only options

  • News

    Ad giant’s new campaign sees Knightsbridge move

    28 April 2000

    J Walter Thimpson heads for Pru sheme while Sotherby's ditches plans to move out of New Bond Street

  • News

    £2.8m gain from Benchmark Sale

    28 April 2000

    Central London specialist Benchmark has made a profit of £2.8m from the sale of four of its smaller properties for £26.6m. The properties, which were all sold to individual buyers, were: the freehold of 37-38 Curzon Street W1, comprising 2,430 sq m (26,180 sq ft) of office, residential, ...