All Property Week articles in 29 June 2012 – Page 4
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Online
Social housing supply plummets
The number of public sector housing registrations fell to 7,090 during three months between March and May, according to figures by new home warranty and insurance provider NHBC
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Markets
The twinterview: @TurnstoneEst
Cambridge-based developer and investor Turnstone Estates is active across East Anglia. Chief executive Chris Goldsmith started tweeting for Turnstone on 30 May 2012.
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News
Wardour Street win for office refurb
Legal & General Property and Walbrook Land have been granted planning consent to refurbish 76 Wardour Street, in London’s Soho (pictured).
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Markets
South Norwich opportunities review
David Lock Associates is to submit its draft report for the future of south Norwich to the Homes and Communities Agency and Norwich City Council by the end of the summer.
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News
MGPA in poll at South Quay
Private equity firm MGPA is understood to be frontrunner to buy the South Quay Plaza office building in Docklands for around £95m.
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Markets
Lord of the Rings star seeks precious new studio
Special effects film company looks for central London space. Rachel Hunter reports
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News
The Property Lexicon
Augmented reality /ɔ:g̍mεntId ̍ri:alIti:/The must-have marketing tool for the 21st-century tablet-wielding property professional. Best described as being “beyond virtual reality”, augmented reality enhances the view of a scheme by incorporating how it actually is with how it could be. Look out for augmented reality spectacles.
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News
Retail lease lifeline
LandSecs, Westfield and Prupim among big guns launching standardised lease to help to fill empty shops
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Professional
Need to know: testing times for tax
In the week that celebrities such as Jimmy Carr and Take That’s Gary Barlow came under fire for trying to reduce their tax liabilities, the government has launched a consultation on proposals to crack down on aggressive tax avoidance schemes.
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News
Why it’s worth taking a punt on Macau
Many in the west have barely heard of Macau, the former Portuguese colony, which, since the deregulation of the gaming industry in 2001, has grown to become the gambling capital of Asia.
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Markets
Restaurant SushiSambas into Heron Tower
Foreign investors are not only buying London real estate.
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Insight
LandAid heads off to Tower of London
Five entertainers stole the show at LandAid’s “Party at the Tower”, sponsored by Property Week, on the evening of 14 June.
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News
Grainger gets green light in Tottenham
Grainger this week won planning consent to redevelop one of the areas worst affected by last summer’s riots.
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Markets
Q+A: Quadrant’s Tristram Gethin
Former City agent Gethin set up Quadrant Estates in 1997. Its best-known development is Eureka Park in Maidstone.
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News
Portas urges landlords to plan for future of high streets
Government tsar hits out at upward-only rent reviews at Norwood Property Lunch
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Professional
Need to know: Regional Growth Fund
The government received more than 400 bids for a share of the £1bn available in the third round of the Regional Growth Fund, it announced last week.
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Markets
First look: Hammerson’s Goodsyard
Hammerson’s 10 acre City fringe scheme moves closer to reality. Hardeep Sandher reports
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Markets
Suffolk law firm HQ hunt hamstrung
Birketts is struggling to find a new headquarters in Ipswich because of the disconnect between market rents and the price for newbuild space.
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Professional
Property industry seeks to extinguish rights-of-light threat
Rights-of-light legislation reforms needed to prevent delays. Sarah Townsend reports