All Property Week articles in 3 June 2011 – Page 4
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News
Liberty picks MMX as joint agent
MMX Retail has been appointed joint agent on the 790,000 sq ft Liberty Centre in Romford. It will work with CB Richard Ellis, providing leasing and strategic advice to Cosgrave Group. The scheme is anchored by Marks Spencer, Debenhams and Primark.
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ProfessionalValuation Office Agency’s selective approach will lead to more tribunals, says Jerry Schurder
The Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) approach to the negotiation of appeals against the 2010 revaluation assessments is causing considerable concern
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NewsGareth Clutton dies after illness
Gareth Clutton, chief executive of the Portman Estate, passed away on Saturday morning after a short illness
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Sentiment improves after tough first quarter
The latest Lloyds Bank Confidence Monitor survey reveals that most expect the market to recover
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InsightWorld Trade Center is height of fashion after Condé Nast coup
Condé Nast’s decision to move to 1 World Trade Center is a game changer
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Markets
Property Week conference: affordable housing crisis
Industry warns that new, reduced figures are not viable
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MarketsQ+A: build your own affordable housing
A policy to help home owners afford to remain in rural Shropshire is proving popular. Paul Unger explains the single-plot exception policy
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ProfessionalThe Next Generation: how property must adapt to younger workers
Developers will have to accommodate the social practices of younger workers in designing offices for the future.
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ProfessionalHighways can kick vehicular access to the kerb
The message: A highway authority may be able to block a property’s access to the highway
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ProfessionalStudents hear about Lives in Property
Banks are unlikely to be large-scale lenders to property for five to seven years
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Aviva buys Alder Castle for £60m
Aviva Investors has bought Alder Castle at 10 Noble Street in the City of London for about £60m. The 90,000 sq ft property was sold by German fund Degi, which originally bought it from Henderson Global Investors in 2003. Argent developed the building in 2000. The price reflected a net ...
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Standard Life to raise £25m
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust is to raise new equity and simplify its corporate structure
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InsightAgency 2011: Property on the up
Property Week’s annual agency survey listing shows which firms performed the best - see how they ranked by turnover, change in turnover and UK profit.
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InsightPrudence and variety key to Agency 2011 success
“I don’t know why, but the past 12 months have been the hardest yet,” a head of commercial at a top agency told us a couple of months ago. Here is why: the UK’s top 58 agencies generated £218m more UK revenue than the previous year, which added up to ...
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Markets
Genr8’s £120m plans for Stoke-on-Trent mean business
Genr8 Developments intends to submit a detailed planning application by the end of 2011 for the 100,000 sq ft first phase of a £120m new business district in the centre of Stoke-on-Trent
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NewsTravelodge plans 100 small hotels
Travelodge plans to develop 100 smaller “Metro” hotels by 2020 to enable it to enter more prestigious locations and build in office blocks across the UK
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NewsLXB Retail raises £100m
Listed property company becomes seventh in six months to raise equity through share issue
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NewsGore’s firm in talks over AirW1 space
Former US vice-president Al Gore’s investment company is in talks to take the first chunk of space at the Crown Estate’s AirW1 development to the east of London’s Regent Street. Generation Investment Management, which is on the Crown Estate’s One Vine Street at present, would move into the 20,000 sq ...
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OnlineSetting Cities Free – Releasing the Potential of Cities to Drive Growth: Final Report of the City Finance Commission
The Inquiry into the Future of Cities and Local Government Finance was established to feed into the Government’s Local Government Resource Review.
