All Property Week articles in 28 November 2008 – Page 10
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Galliard Homes boss asks Alistair Darling and banks to waive loan covenants
Galliard Homes managing director Stephen Conway has sent an open letter to the company’s three main clearing banks, Chancellor Alistair Darling, and other senior politicians asking for a waiver of restrictive loan to value covenants.
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Savills group finance director leaves
Mark Dearsley, Savills group finance director, is leaving the company to join Partnership Assurance, the Cinven-owned specialist annuity provider.
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Margaret Beckett to help ‘at risk’ Thames Gateway regeneration schemes
Beckett underlined the government’s commitment to the Thames Gateway and pledged to identify and help regeneration schemes that are at risk of stalling in the face of the economic slowdown.
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Metrovacesa and HSBC in last minute debt crunch talks
Metrovacesa and its lender HSBC are locked in last minute talks about an £810m bridging loan used by Metrovacesa to purchase the HSBC tower in London’s Canary Wharf which is due to be repaid tomorrow.
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Sir Alan Sugar’s former HQ to become hotel
Sir Alan Sugar’s Brentwood headquarters, used in The Apprentice, is to be redeveloped as a Premier Inn.
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Margaret Beckett says Thames Gateway will ‘weather the economic storm’
The Thames Gateway is in a strong position to weather the current economic storm and grow in the long term said Housing Minister Margaret Beckett MP today.
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Frankfurt/Main Office Market View Q3 2008
Whilst the Frankfurt market is expected to slow in 2009, bank restructuring is expected to help generate market activity although this is expected to be redistributed towards cheaper periphery locations as tenants become more cost-sensitive.
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Global MarketView - Office Occupancy Costs November 2008
London's West End and Moscow remain the world's two most expensive office markets finds CB Richard Ellis' latest research.
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Last chance to vote on Chancellor's empty rates changes
Property Week is seeking your verdict on Alistair Darling's pre-budget report and the changes to empty rates legislation.
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Go-ahead for £80m Solihull scheme
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has given the green light for an £80m town centre scheme in Shirley in Solihull.
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CBRE opens new Bahrain office
CB Richard Ellis has opened a new Middle Eastern office in the business district of Manama, Bahrain.
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Stanhope and MacDonald Egan to develop Lewisham College campus
Lewisham College has selected Deptford Bridge Developments, a joint venture between Stanhope and MacDonald Egan
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Thames Gateway Forum: Kent Thameside launches waterfront regeneration strategy
The Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership will launch its strategic framework for the Kent Thameside Waterfront on the first day of the Thames Gateway Forum today.
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Woolworths suspends shares
Woolworths announced that it had asked the stock exchange to suspend trading ‘ pending the outcome of discussions ’.
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Boris Johnson approves major Tower Hamlets resi scheme
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has given the go-ahead for Barratt Homes East London’s development in Tower Hamlets on the site of St Andrew’s Hospital.
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Gulf property firms start job cuts
Property companies in Abu Dhabiare entering a period of aggressive cost cutting and staff layoffs as the credit crisis slows the economy, with nearly 600 property sector employees losing their jobs in the past few weeks.
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Five Abu Dhabi companies form mortgage venture
Five of Abu Dhabi’s largest companies will launch a home finance company on Wednesday that will fill the void left by the implosion of credit at home and abroad.
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Care home operators struggling
The credit crisis is battering the two largest publicly traded operators of housing for the elderly. One of them, Sunrise Senior Living, is trying to stave off bankruptcy. The other, Brookdale Senior Living, is considered likely to resolve its short-term problems, but it faces a mountain of debt in the ...
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Construction 'surprisingly strong'
Activity in Australia's construction sector was surprisingly strong in the third quarter, lifting expectations that domestic economic growth avoided contraction even as the world's banking sector went into deep convulsions.