All Property Week articles in 30 June 2006 – Page 3

  • News

    Derivatives market steps forward with new FTSE index

    30 June 2006

    Launch of FTSE-indexed MSS fund will enable smaller investors to gain exposure

  • Silvertown Quays’ David Taylor
    Insight

    Six years and counting

    30 June 2006

    Property Week, its sister magazine Building and law firm Clifford Chance were the hosts for 200 readers at Six Years and Counting, a conference exploring opportunities from the 2012 London Olympics on 15 June. Adam Benzine reports on how silver medal-winning javelin thrower Steve Backley launched events that involved ...

  • News

    ... while Cordea Savills sinks

    30 June 2006

    Cordea Savills’ German Property Fund has become the latest company to drop plans to float because of weak stock market conditions.

  • News

    De Vere shares jump at prospect of takeover contest

    30 June 2006

    De Vere agreed to a £723.5m takeover on Monday by a vehicle led by Marylebone Warwick Balfour chief executive Richard Balfour-Lynn, but the market is expecting a higher offer from private equity group Permira.

  • Professional

    Olympics construction work trailing the field

    30 June 2006

    Construction work for the 2012 Olympic Games is already running into delay and the risk of time and budget overruns is increasing, according to a quarterly survey published this week by Colliers CRE.

  • News

    Victory in sheds competition

    30 June 2006

    A month ago I launched a contest to name the industrial development by Property Alliance Group and its agent NAI Fuller Peiser in Upwell Street, Sheffield.

  • News

    city view: james whitmore

    30 June 2006

    The decision on whether or not to convert into a REIT is a no-brainer for most of the 50 or so property companies that are listed on the main market.

  • News

    China Real Estate Growth Fund

    30 June 2006

    China Real Estate Growth Fund is to develop a £70m 538,200 sq ft (50,000 sq m) retail and leisure scheme in Beijing. Martin Fleishman's Consultancy International advises the fund.

  • Clean slate: adoption of the code will be seen as evidence of good practice
    Professional

    New service charge code splits spending/earnings link

    30 June 2006

    "Deliberately challenging" new code to have RICS guidance note status

  • News

    Pension changes have put investors in the driving seat

    30 June 2006

    The relaxation of the rules on retirement planning has opened up the market, says Christine Hallett

  • Professional

    Case news

    30 June 2006

    Jonathan Ross sees sparks flying between a food company and a forklift truck supplier, while Warren Gordon looks at a bid to stop the sale of pet birds at a fair

  • Markets

    Car parking and carbon

    30 June 2006

    Developers must balance buyers' desires with the green demands of planners, says Kevin Chrisp

  • News

    SIPP fans buy south-east offices

    30 June 2006

    Private investors keen to place office property in their personal pension funds have swooped on two significant office schemes in London and the south-east.

  • Markets

    The dirt busters

    30 June 2006

    Fairview has made its name tackling the sort of messy, awkward sites that other housebuilders avoid. David Lawson reports. Photograph by Victoria Nightingale

  • News

    Evans to revamp West Mids rural business

    30 June 2006

    Workspace provider to create enterprise schemes for deprived areas

  • News

    IBM building

    30 June 2006

    UK & European Investments is to sell the IBM building on London's South Bank with a price tag of £102.5m - an initial yield of 4.75%. Lewis Ellis is advising the vendor.

  • News

    Candy brothers

    30 June 2006

    Life is sweet: the Candy brothers' firm, Candy & Candy, will be the development manager of a £1bn mixed-use scheme at the Middlesex Hospital site in London's Fitzrovia.

  • News

    Bristol group’s first three deals

    30 June 2006

    Bristol-based investment and asset management company Urbina has completed its first three deals since its formation in January.

  • News

    London boroughs west

    30 June 2006

    Hines takes flight at Expeditors' Heathrow site UBS on 33m Ruislip space Odyssey The market in minutes An uphill struggle Recovery room

  • News

    German City buy comes out of Blue

    30 June 2006

    German investor Blue Capital Europa Immobilien is to buy Centenium House at 100 Lower Thames Street in the City of London for £34m.