All Property Week articles in 3 December 1999 – Page 3

  • News

    Halladale aims for early float

    3 December 1999

    Glasgow-based company Halladale is planning to float early in the new year, with ambitions to rival Scottish Metropolitan, the only other quoted Scottish-based property investor.

  • News

    Abbey poaches Regus tenants in hot sector

    3 December 1999

    Abbey Business Centres , the fledgling serviced office operator, has captured two of Regus s top Slough tenants for its new business centre in the town. Logica and Yellow Pages have moved out of the Regus building on Bath Road in favour of a rival centre operated by ...

  • News

    Three left in the race to develop King’s Cross

    3 December 1999

    Three big-hitters have been shortlisted to redevelop Europe s largest city centre brownfield site at London s King s Cross. Australian property company Lend Lease , UK developers Argent /St George and Amec have made it to list of three to redevelop the 20ha (50 acre) site, which is ...

  • News

    New dawn: AXA Sun Life’s Premier Place

    3 December 1999

    The fate of two City office schemes were decided this week, coinciding with AXA Sun Life unveiling plans for its £140m Premier Place office development in Houndsditch (above), where Allsop & Co and Bh2 are letting agents. Tuesday s planning meeting granted consent for Minerva s £350m St ...

  • News

    Knight Frank’s key hotel players quit for Insignia

    3 December 1999

    Knight Frank s hotels team has been hit by two senior defections to Insignia Hotel Partners. Derek Gammage and Chris Rouse, both former Knight Frank partners, will in January become managing director and director respectively. IHP has also recruited the former chairman of Regal Hotels, Charles Vere Nicoll, to ...

  • Markets

    Leicestershire The Midlands’ hidden jewel

    3 December 1999

    Extreme lack of available space.

  • News

    Brussels’ state aid purge threatens £785m grants

    3 December 1999

    Some of Britain s poorest areas could lose out on up to £785m of regeneration grants due to a new row between the government and Brussels. The European Commission last week rejected for the third time a proposed map of Assisted Areas zones to which the ...

  • News

    United News to offload £72m property

    3 December 1999

    Just one week after United News & Media announced its intended £8bn merger with Carlton Communications, the media group is to sell two of its last remaining freehold properties. The £66.2m sale and leaseback of United News & Media s Express building at 245 Blackfriars Road in ...

  • News

    MWB upsets rulebook with £30m equity deal

    3 December 1999

    As a rule, small property companies with no sector focus are deeply unpopular. However, there is one company that has turned the rulebook on its head Marylebone Warwick Balfour . MWB has raised £30m of new equity from a placing and open offer ...

  • News

    TrizecHahn to float by 2002

    3 December 1999

    TrizecHahn Europe is planning a $3bn flotation in Europe as early as 2002. The Canadian property developer intends to become Europe s largest retail property specialist through an aggressive programme of shopping centre development and acquisition. Phillip Rose , chief operating officer, said the company believed investors wanted exposure to ...

  • News

    Loan-to-value index likely to remain stable in 2000

    3 December 1999

    Lending conditions in the debt finance market for commercial property investment have remained largely unchanged in the last three months, according to the latest Kingfisher/Property Week Index. The index which measures the sustainable loan-to-value ratio for property by reference to yields and interest rates ...

  • News

    £100m coffer for Newcastle schemes

    3 December 1999

    The Council is planning to raise at least £100m to launch a direct development drive in Newcastle. Council officials have confirmed that it is hoping £100m coffer for Newcastle schemes to raise the cash by selling most of its 40% stake in the Eldon Square shopping centre ...

  • News

    New row over 1.1m homes

    3 December 1999

    The head of a panel set up by the government to monitor development in the south-east has warned that investors may desert the region and invest overseas because of strict planning regulations. Professor Stephen Crow, a former chief planning inspector, told the House of Commons Environment, Transport and the Regions ...