All Property Week articles in 28 October 2005 – Page 2
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News
LaSalle Investment Management
LaSalle Investment Management has sold 104-112 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, on behalf of HSBC Bank Pension Trust to a syndicate of private investors for £16.75m, which reflects a net initial yield of 4.6%. The 20,601 sq ft (1,914 sq m) property comprises three shops let to Savers Health & ...
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Inventive incentive
Wallace Mercer, the Scottish property developer and former chairman of Hearts FC, normally holds an agents’ raffle in tandem with a new venture, the prize usually being a weekend for two in a European city.
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MarketsImpatience is a virtue
With nothing left available in Newcastle’s main shopping street, investors are shunning the waiting list and going west instead.
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Insight
Tax will stifle housing
Sir, It is beyond belief that the only outcome of the Barker Review, the principal objective of which was to increase housing land supply, might be a tax that would reduce the supply of housing.
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Pierse Group
Irish contractor and residential developer Pierse Group has begun marketing the first flat in Liverpool with a price tag of more than £1m. The penthouse flat sits above Pierse’s mixed-use redevelopment of the grade II-listed Tower Building in the city’s financial quarter. Pierse said it had attracted offers of more ...
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InsightA landlord and a gentleman
Giles Barrie looks back on his relationship with the late Slough Estates chairman Sir Nigel Mobbs
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Markets
Terrace Hill OK for Gateshead plan
Terrace Hill has won detailed planning consent for 90,000 sq ft (8,360 sq m) of speculative offices at its £250m Baltic Business Quarter in Gateshead.
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Feltham young offenders
The chavs of Feltham in west London have little respect for reputation.
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Markets
Swedish industrial yields fall
Prime industrial yields in MALMO and Gothenburg fell in the second quarter of the year from 9.5% to 9%, research from Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker has revealed.
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Office of Fair Trading looks
Attention turns to UK’s biggest residential property investment broker after customer complaints
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MarketsExtreme makeover
The capture of Wilkinson has kick-started the £20m regeneration of Thornaby town centre.
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MarketsThe end is in site
As two north-east enterprise zones near the end of their lives, Jonathan Brasse looks at the benefits they have brought and what will happen next for local office developers and tenants
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MarketsHeron’s empty nest
With vacant units and a discount retailer moving in, Stockholm’s Heron City is not proving the entertainment mecca everyone had hoped for.
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New Look to dump smaller stores
New Look is to vacate up to 30 of its smaller stores in locations that overlap with stores it has acquired from the Littlewoods portfolio.
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Professional
Insurer predicts winter of discontent for landlords
Norwich Union says adverse weather will lead to 20% rise in property insurance claims
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InsightIt’s a dirty job
...but someone has to regenerate the UK’s ‘dirty dozen’ deprived sites. That someone is US regeneration expert Bill Boler. Photographs by Mischa Haller
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ProfessionalDiary of... a project manager
Mike Cuthbert, project management partner at Drivers Jonas, takes us through his week
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Neptune Developments
Neptune Developments has sold the Foundation Building to the University of Liverpool. The 60,000 sq ft (5,574 sq m) city centre building contains 16,500 sq ft (1,533 sq m) of retail space and 44,000 sq ft (4,088 sq m) of offices. Mason Owen & Partners and Hitchcock Wright & ...
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Rosemound to develop LDA’s Olympic schemes
The London Development Agency has chosen shed developer Rosemound as its joint venture partner for two sites in east London to be used to relocate occupiers from Olympic areas.
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MarketsWheeling and dealing
Recent legislation means that car showrooms are fuelling an alternative investment market.
