All Property Week articles in 29 October 2004 – Page 2

  • News

    Hanover Square

    29 October 2004

  • Neil Prime
    Insight

    Going places

    29 October 2004

    Who’s moving onwards and upwards

  • One way: Musgrave’s Wynyard One site awaits a planning decision to allow offices and distribution
    Markets

    Two into one won’t go

    29 October 2004

    Two of the north-east’s property heavyweights are fighting it out over Wynyard One, a derelict manufacturing premises in Teesside

  • News

    Oh yes it is, Fraser

    29 October 2004

    Stage whispers tell us that Conway Relf’s Michael Fraser is auditioning for the part of Puss in Boots in the Richmond Theatre’s December production of Dick Whittington

  • Insight

    Going the extra Nile

    29 October 2004

    Sir, I was sorry to read about the death of Allsop partner Sarah Symons from breast cancer (news, 8 October, p8) and would like to pass on my condolences to her husband, her family and colleagues

  • Value for money? The VOA chief executive Andrew Hudson defended the principle of ‘right first time’
    Insight

    ‘Right first time’ may be wrong every time

    29 October 2004

    Property valuation is a matter of opinion, not simple calculation. The VOA is revaluing 1.74 million properties: no matter how much manpower is thrown at this problem, no organisation could get this many valuations right first time. The VOA’s greater openness will not prevent a tide of appeals after 1 ...

  • News

    Savills stays put in West End headquarters

    29 October 2004

    Savills has abandoned its search for a new headquarters in London and agreed a lease extension at its current Mayfair base at 20 Grosvenor Hill, W1.

  • Tusk force: the plan for Elephant and Castle would transform the Heygate Estate and the shopping centre
    Markets

    Jumbo task at the Elephant

    29 October 2004

    After the collapse of the previous Elephant and Castle redevelopment plan, a new set of bidders are eyeing the site

  • News

    Kershaw signs serviced office double

    29 October 2004

    Serviced office entrepreneur Peter Kershaw has bought serviced office operator Corpnex and its flagship City of London centre.

  • News

    Salmon’s development double

    29 October 2004

    Salmon Harvester has bought two development sites, in Cambridge and Cheltenham, for small-unit freehold office and industrial parks.

  • Mike Hussey
    News

    LandSecs young guns take control

    29 October 2004

    New era dawns as Hussey and Akers mark out customer-focused, flexible and evolving future at Land Securities

  • Insight

    Equality control

    29 October 2004

    Sir, Property Week readers should not be deceived by Robert Coomber’s spin on what is happening at Southwark council, where he is chief executive (letters to the editor, 22 October)

  • Sound ideas: the four-storey extension, the auditorium, and the roof terrace
    Markets

    A concerted effort

    29 October 2004

    The Royal Festival Hall is having a retail-led makeover as part of the £91m revamp of the South Bank Centre

  • The gaffer: Prescott's command of facts came under scrutiny
    News

    Words don’t come easy to me

    29 October 2004

    Deputy prime minister John Prescott may be one of the giants of British politics, but he is well known for his gaffes

  • News

    Law firm close to Spinningfields prelet

    29 October 2004

    Halliwells becomes latest to choose Manchester scheme for 130,000 sq ft office

  • News

    Inner City: James Whitmore

    29 October 2004

    Robert Tchenguiz is one of property’s top dealmakers, but he had a very quiet summer. Until this week Tchenguiz had endured a rather barren seven-month period, during which he lost out to Guy Hands’ Terra Firma in the battle to buy Odeon Cinemas. The deal did not look too good ...

  • Northern lights: John Hall is in favour, while Ray Mallon may stand for election
    Markets

    The peoples choice

    29 October 2004

    As the north-east prepares to vote in a referendum for a regional assembly, the ‘No’ campaign is claiming that putting politicians in charge of development could hamper the property sector

  • News

    Herrington is new F&C chief

    29 October 2004

    F&C Asset Management, the company formed from the merger of Isis and F&C earlier this month, has appointed former Isis property chief Paul Herrington as managing director of UK property

  • News

    Developers’ Elephant charge

    29 October 2004

    Developers are poised to submit bids to regenerate the Elephant & Castle area in south London, as the report on the area’s proposed redevelopment goes before Southwark Council next week

  • News

    City undercutting catches tenants for Times Square

    29 October 2004

    Law firms and FTSE Group lured by quoting rents 12% below those at other City schemes