All Property Week articles in 4 November 2011 – Page 3
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ProfessionalLondon students left out in the cold
Development shortfall means bed space provision has slowed during recession. Paul Savitz reports
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ProfessionalPeople moves: Cube Real Estate, Savills, Jones Lang LaSalle, CLS Holdings
Cube Real Estate has appointed Tori Bailey as asset manager, Ruari Laidlaw as trainee asset manager, Mike Benton as finance director and John Carroll as financial controller.
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MarketsRichard Desmond’s dreams of Luton ‘media city’ receive go-ahead
Government funding to improve M1 junction unlocks £100m scheme. Sarah Stewart reports
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NewsCBRE continues quest for global domination
Firm takes over ING for $1.2bn to become world’s largest property fund manager
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NewsCandys’ pick ‘n’ mix
Property tycoons were few and far between among the 400 or so guests, but Property Week did spot Residential Land’s Bruce Ritchie.
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Churchillian curse in Canary Wharf
Is 5 Churchill Place in Canary Wharf cursed? Ludgate only asks because it has terrible fortune with tenants.
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ProfessionalRIP Building Schools for the Future
Priority School Building Programme to use private finance initiative to “standardise” up to 300 schools. Mark Wilding reports
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InsightA bridge too far for Chelsea
Owner Roman Abramovich is running out of options in his quest to find Chelsea Football Club a larger ground. Nick Johnstone reports
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InsightOwnership issues put Stamford Bridge in troubled water
It seems that there are some things that even Roman Abramovich cannot buy — at least for now.
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InsightMake or break for retail property’s middle men
Manchester’s September BCSC conference was buzzing. Only one top retail agent wasn’t happy.
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ProfessionalEarly bloomers: what does it take to get a start-up off the ground?
What does it take to get a start-up off the ground? Our latest 1st Friday article for younger readers meets three firms who made a niche for themselves. Hardeep Sandher reports
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NewsLaSalle picks a Birkenhead pair
Investor in talks to buy Grange and Pyramids at discount price of just below £70m
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InsightCameron has been ‘crass and insensitive’ over eurozone revolt
Markets have woken up to the realisation that the deal was not the end, nor was it even the beginning of the end of the euro affair.
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Wine importer signs corking Battersea lease
Fields Morris & Verdin has signed a 20,000 sq ft lease in London’s Battersea, before its headquarters is demolished to make way for the new US embassy.
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Markets
University leaps barrier to Frogmoor student halls
Bucks New University is to receive approval to convert the office space above Chilterns Shopping Centre in Frogmoor, High Wycombe, into student accommodation next week.
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MarketsInvestment funds take role of banks
Institutional investors have allocated as much as £10.4bn to residential investment and development in the UK, mainly central London.
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ProfessionalSociable South Bank student shares his experience
Here, Elliott Sparsis — one half of Sociable Surveyors, the organisation that helps to find placements around the world for surveying students — has blogged about how he has found his first two months at the university.
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MarketsNeed to know: rents on balance sheets delay
The publication of the revised draft rules that govern the inclusion of leases on balance sheets has been pushed back until early next year.
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InsightBag a big, juicy prelet if you want banks to fund your big project
It is the conventional wisdom that since the financial crisis, save for a few exceptional schemes — the Heron in the City, for example — very little funding for new development has been provided by the banks.
