All Property Week articles in 30 June 2000 – Page 2

  • News

    Workspace delivers best result to date

    30 June 2000

    Property s darling lives up to expectations and produces excellent returns for another year

  • News

    Berkeley homes in on success

    30 June 2000

    Tony Pidgley s Berkeley Group, the housing and property developer, saw its pre-tax profits rise by 30% to £143.6m in the year to 30 April on the back of a booming housing market. The company saw turnover increase to £799m compared with £697m in 1999. Net asset value per share ...

  • News

    Davies calls on US architect to beef up bid in dock fight

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    Walton Group squares up to Grosvenor with internationally-renowned architect for Liverpool city retail scheme

  • News

    Even quicker appeals

    30 June 2000

    A faster system for processing appeals will come into force from the end of July, following changes announced this week by planning minister Nick Raynsford. They include strict deadlines for submitting representations. Raynsford said that the Planning Inspectorate had made a good deal of progress in speeding up the system, ...

  • News

    Westminster clamps down ahead of drink deregulation

    30 June 2000

    Licensees in Westminster are feeling the sharp end of the city council s determination to clamp down on licences, ahead of the Home Office s deregulation of drinking hours. Westminster last week imposed tough measures that will mean that most new restaurant and bar licences issued in the borough will ...

  • News

    Forward-fund agreed

    30 June 2000

    Scottish Mutual is to forward-fund Lamron Estates Developments new office initiative in Basingstoke. The 6,500 sq m (70,000 sq ft) scheme, on the site of the former De La Rue building in Basing View, will have an end value of £15m. Lambert Smith Hampton and GVA Grimley ...

  • Markets

    The park ages

    30 June 2000

    Chiswick Park, touted as the model for tomorrow s business park is under construction just as business park icon Stockley Park is finalising planning for its last stage. We compare the two different concepts

  • Markets

    Planning: affordable housing provision raises objections

    30 June 2000

    While the Terminal 5 inquiry result is still awaited, the latest capacity report published by BATA shows that Heathrow is turning away millions of passengers a year. Brent s latest updated version of its Unitary Development Plan has been out for consultation. Brent council s new quota for affordable housing ...

  • News

    Prescott OK for Aerodrome Park

    30 June 2000

    Environment Secretary John Prescott has approved the development of one of the largest leisure schemes in outer London in recent years. After four years bogged down in the planning process, plans to develop a 34,000 sq m (366,000 sq ft) scheme at Aerodrome Park in Hendon have got the go-ahead ...

  • News

    £92m turned at Widows in days

    30 June 2000

    Scottish Widows has turned £92m of the Guardian property portfolio less than a week after completing the £700m mixed-portfolio acquisition from parent company Aegon. An in-house fund of Healey & Baker , the West Midlands Metropolitan Authorities Pension Fund, bought 16 properties, mainly in the office and ...

  • News

    Regalian to return to resi after £70m sale

    30 June 2000

    Regalian plans to return 45p a share to shareholders after selling its commercial assets

  • News

    37% NAV rise for Grainger

    30 June 2000

    The house price boom enabled tenanted residential property specialist Grainger Trust to achieve a 37% increase in net asset value in the six months to 31 March. The rise to 970p a share came after the company s first interim portfolio revaluation, carried out by Chesterton and Jones ...

  • Insight

    Fee earners 2000

    30 June 2000

    Property Week s third annual listing of surveying firms by number of UK fee earners provides a fascinating snapshot of the industry. The picture is a familiar one, with the big firms getting bigger, and the numbers dropping sharply further down the table, but look closer and some interesting trends ...

  • News

    Helios schemes reach 2m sq ft

    30 June 2000

    Helios Properties, the private north-east developer has taken its UK development programme over 185,800 sq m (2m sq ft) by acquiring all of local rival Bowey Construction s schemes. The move added 46,450 sq m (500,000 sq ft) to the company s existing commitments at Tameside Park in Manchester, Imperial ...

  • News

    Soros piles up £1bn for Euro property campaign

    30 June 2000

    Hungarian financier hires DLJ to raise funds to target corporate and portfolio buys