All Property Week articles in 5 September 2008 – Page 7
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News
Pretax profits up 39% for strong performer Regus
Regus put In a strong performance in the first half of the year
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News
Hammerson and Hermes opened their £350m Leicester Highcross shopping scheme yesterday
The scheme, anchored by John Lewis, House of Fraser and Debenhams, is 87% let by income
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Professional
What women want: Women in Property Student Awards 2008
Finalists in the Association of Women in Property’s National Student Awards 2008 tell Lydia Stockdale about their reasons for choosing property and their career expectations.Photographs by James Winspear
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News
Terra’s 19% NAV plunge
Terra Catalyst, the AIM-listed property share fund managed by corporate activist Laxey Partners, has revealed that its net asset value dropped by almost a fifth since its launch in February.
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Professional
Five entrepreneurs close in on £10m interest-free prize
Native Land, Cathedral, Neptune, Urban Space and Tolladine make it to south England and Wales final
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Markets
Developer trio vie to treat £1bn Watford mixed use
Land Securities Trillium, John Laing and Catalyst Lend Lease set to bid to develop health campus
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Morley seeks tribunal over £1.2m
Morley will go to the Lands Tribunal to seek a £1.2m refund of business rates paid on an empty property. If successful, the case could wreck Labour’s hopes of collecting £1bn in empty rates this year.
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Professional
Case news: Business Environment Bow Lane v Deanwater (31.08.08) and Herbert v Doyle and Talati (04.08.08)
Jonathan Ross shows that exaggerated claims result in unnecessary costs, while Warren Gordon reports on how a developer failed to secure key space needed for development
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Online
Chelsea Barracks £40m public sports facility unveiled
Project Blue, the joint venture between Christian Candy’s CPC and Qatari Diar, have unveiled images of a public sports complex to form part of its Chelsea Barracks plans.
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Online
£8bn F&C and REIT merger completes
REIT Asset Management, the investment manager owned by owned by entrepreneurs Leo Noé and Ivor Smith, has completed its merger with the property management business of F&C Asset Management.
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Online
EPRA 2008: EU-REIT regime "would create too much uncertainty"
The creation of a single European REIT regime now would create too much uncertainty to be successful, according to the European Public Real Estate Association.
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Online
Hammerson and Hermes open £350m Highcross shopping centre
The 1.1m sq ft scheme in Leicester is anchored by John Lewis, House of Fraser and Debenhams with a total of 120 stores, 15 restaurants and cafes.
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Online
Bank of England sticks to 5% interest rate
Interest rates have been kept at 5% for the fifth month in succession.
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Online
EPRA 2008: Worst may be over but expect more volatility
The worst of the downturn may be in sight for the European property market, but the volatility exhibited in the current market is here to stay.
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Online
DTZ carries out a further £15m of ‘cost saving measures’
DTZ revealed today that it expected to save a further £15m in ‘cost saving measures’ by next April.
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Online
Expansion drives sales growth at Whitbread
Whitbread today reported strong sales growth for the first half of the year, driven by its expansion plans.
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Online
EPRA 2008: Sustainability is good for your share price
A strong sustainability policy helps listed companies perform better, JP Morgan said today.
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Online
OGC launches guide to ‘revolutionise’ Civil Service property strategy
The Office of Government Commerce and workplace change consultants DEGW have launched a publication aimed at modernising Civil Service ways of working
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Online
Southern Cross looks to sell 20 care homes to reduce debt
Southern Cross, the care home operator, has appointed Knight Frank to sell 20 care homes to reduce its debt.