All Property Week articles in 5 December 2003 – Page 2
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Markets
Magnificent seven
Seven areas dominate the south-west and there is plenty going on in all of them.
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Markets
The price of life
There has been a spate of deals in Midtown recently, but their terms point not so much to recovery as to landlords' desperation to keep the market ticking over.
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Markets
Zest for life
Vittorio Radice's latest concept – the Marks & Spencer Lifestore – is set to revitalise Thurrock's Lakeside shopping centre.
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Insight
Quadrant Leap
The Crown Estate is poised to lodge £500m plans for one of the biggest ever developments in London's West End.
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Markets
Ken’s snub to Royals
The topping out of Building 1,000 at The Royals Business Park didn’t go as smoothly as some might have hoped. This charming picture of Tony Winterbottom, executive director of the London Development Agency, clutching a trowel is a rousing image. But Tony’s beaming grin is not large enough to outshine ...
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News
JLL Wallis promotion
Jones Lang LaSalle has promoted Jonathan Wallis to head of investment at its Birmingham office. Wallis has been at JLL for six years and will be in charge of JLL’s capital markets team based in Birmingham. The promotion marks a change in focus for Wallis, who will leave ...
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News
Topland shed is L'Oréal and it's worth it
Topland Group has pulled off its second large shed deal of the year by agreeing to develop a distribution warehouse for L'Oréal in Manchester. The private property company, run by Eddie and Sol Zakay, will develop a 256,947 sq ft (23,870 sq m) warehouse for the French cosmetics company at ...
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Professional
Inside parliament
Planning tariff enigmaLast year the Government withdrew its consultation paper on planning tariffs after it became apparent that it had little clue about how it would all work.It has now issued a new consultation paper setting out plans for a new, optional planning charge which could be used as an ...
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Markets
Olympic hurdle
London's Olympic bid requires 500 acres in the Lower Lea Valley east of the capital, but assembling it isn't going to be easy.
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News
New Red Mall home for M&S
Marks & Spencer is poised to sign for a 60,000 sq ft (5,574 sq m) store at Red Mall, Green Property’s extension to its Blanchardstown shopping centre in Dublin. Palmer McCormack and Jones Lang LaSalle are the joint letting agents. Hamilton Osborne King is acting for M&S. ...
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News
High street uses targeted
The Government has announced a big shake-up of high street planning to combat what it calls 'theme park hell'. Planning minister Keith Hill said new measures would come into force next summer to stop traditional pubs becoming burger bars and bingo halls converting to night clubs without local authority consultation. ...
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News
Savills shares hit new high
Savills ’ shares hit their highest ever price last week after the company said full-year profits would be ‘materially’ better than expected because the property market had improved more than anticipated in the second half of this year. Analysts are forecasting the results to be 20% better than previously estimated, ...
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News
Helical and Pru’s Surrey office scales new Heights
Helical Bar and Prudential have tied up the first letting at their office development The Heights at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. In a rare Thames Valley deal, Kia Motors has taken 15,774 sq ft (1,465 sq m) at the scheme, which is being developed jointly with Averley Wood ...
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Markets
In for the long haul
The south-west is England's largest region, but its RDA is determined that neither economic imbalances or physical distances will restrict its development.
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News
New investor guide for IFAs
The Investment Property Forum has launched a guide to help independent financial advisers (IFAs) advise private investors of opportunities and risks in commercial property investment. The guide describes the commercial property investment market, sets out the attributes of property, examines the mechanics of ownership structures and valuation, provides details ...
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Markets
Magnet’s sexy name gets right to the Point
Essex-based developer John F Hunt is hoping that industrial occupiers in Thurrock will be drawn like iron filings to its new scheme, Magnet Point (pictured above). Speculative development starts in the New Year, proving a range of units between 1,900 and 20,000 sq ft (176 and 1,858 sq m), which ...
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Markets
Gift of the Garbe
German developer Garbe gets a decidedly unsporting welcome each time its executives stroll into Victoria House in Holborn. Its tenant Sport England has installed a sports viewing gallery complete with widescreen plasma TV, showing England’s greatest sporting moments. Unfortunately this includes cyclical coverage of the football team’s 5 -1 demolition ...
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News
Funds urged to raise property weighting
New accounting standard could boost pension funds’ investment fivefold
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Markets
Fight for the law
Land Securities and Delancey's huge schemes around London's Fetter Lane will both chase the same occupiers.
