All Property Week articles in 30 September 2011 – Page 2
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Markets
Seismic shift
Prologis plans smaller developments around London following its merger with AMB
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Markets
Spaced Out
The UK’s industrial markets are still a tough environment. After a surge in 2010, occupier demand has fallen again in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, few developers feel confident enough to build speculatively, so the supply of new buildings has dwindled
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Markets
Trash Talk: Waste Management
Three years ago, the waste management sector was identified as an opportunity to bolster the sheds market during the recession. However, in the intervening period few projects have been brought forward
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Professional
Pickles’ logistical paradox
The communities secretary will have to walk the thin line between encouraging industrial development and sympathising with local concerns if he is to help kickstart growth
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Insight
Retrospective laws on leases are repugnant
There is a certain deja vu about the proposed upward-only rent review legislation that Ireland’s Fine Gael and Labour parties indicated they would introduce before they came to power
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Markets
Straight talker: Laura Sutton
Laura Sutton, 42, is a partner in property development consultancy Baker Rose. She has worked in the industrial sector ever since she qualified as a surveyor in 1992, and previously headed Savills’ south-east industrial team. She lives in Walton-on-Thames with her husband and three children.
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Markets
Middle Ground: Midlands logistics market outperforming the rest of the UK
The BNP Paribas Real Estate/IPD index reveals that the Midlands are outperforming the rest of the country
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News
Goodman’s man in Warsaw
Goodman Group has appointed Jaroslaw Wnuk as head of capital transactions for central and eastern Europe, reporting to Kristof Verstraeten, director capital transactions, continental Europe. He will work for Goodman and its funds in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
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Markets
Shed light on the future
The UK economy may still be lost in space, but there are signs of life in the sheds market
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News
Twitter flits to Ireland
Twitter is to become the latest internet company to join Ireland’s “Silicon Valley” after announcing plans to set up a base in Dublin
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Professional
Expo Real: A real good time at expo
This ‘strictly business’ conference follows the excesses of Oktoberfest
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News
Starwood’s five-star Euro hotels sell-off
MIPIM’s legendary Martinez among €900m of assets on block
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Markets
Merkel seeks salvation with German Open-ended real estate funds
But can Germany’s open-ended real estate funds deliver?
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Professional
How language skills help in real estate
Brits abroad often think lingua franca is enough, but there is no substitute for knowing the native tongue
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Markets
Eyes on the enterprise
The new generation of enterprise zones will provide a helping hand for manufacturers
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News
La vie en rose
Hammerson France chief is revitalising the country’s only two distressed assets.
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News
Graftongate to embark on Highlands fling
Graftongate is to develop the 3 acre Highlands Park site in the Monkspath industrial district of Solihull in the West Midlands
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News
DTZ’s Liverpool retail park
DTZ Investment Management has bought Hunts Cross Retail Park in Liverpool for £8.5m, reflecting a net initial yield of just less than 7%