All Property Week articles in 7 July 2000
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Insight
Reinventing the wheel
ISVA seminars have been allowed to continue a full six months after the organisation s merger with the RICS. This reprieve is now at an end. Christine Eade finds that not all ex-ISVA members are happy with the scenario
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News
TrizecHahn in retreat from Milan
Giant Canadian Investor TrizecHan is to close its Milan office early next year. The firm plans to consolidate its European operations in Germany, Spain and Hungary. Phillip Rose , chief operating officer, TrizecHahn Europe, said: Italy for us is not a material market in terms of quantity or activity. ...
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Professional
Seminal thoughts on social housing
The government’s push for more social housing has provoked angry responses in the property industry. Last month, developers, planners and housebuilders voiced their concerns at a Mishcon de Reya seminar on affordable housing
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News
Mobbs hits out at SERPLAN guidelines
Demand for housing and parking severely underestimated says Slough chief
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News
Push for more Heathrow greenfield sites
Land Securities is spearheading a push to develop more greenfield sites near Heathrow Airport to ease the pressure on supply of industrial warehousing in the Thames Valley. The company, in a joint venture with salmon Harvester Properties, has submitted a planning application for a £9.5m, 5,574 sq m ...
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News
HSBC picks top five favourites
Freeport , Workspace , Helical Bar , Pillar and St Modwen are the top five performing property companies over the medium to longer term, according to investment bank hsbc . 'All five companies show top quartile performance and have outperformed both the direct property market and the wider ...
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News
Landlords race to wire up European space
Two rival consortia of landlords have started the race to wire up more than 25m sq m (250m sq ft) of office, retail and industrial space in Europe. In separate agreements announced last week, two of the world s most powerful investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, ...
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News
Good year for DTZ and Savills
The two major UK-quoted property services firms, DTZ and Savills , reported impressive annual results this week, both due to the breadth of their businesses. In the year to 30 April DTZ s pre-tax profits increased 64% to £19.3m on turnover up 23% to £120.4m, while Savills raised profits by ...
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Markets
Diversifying inward investment
The West Midlands needs to look beyond automotive industry investment to survive.
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News
Orb goes private at huge discount
Orb Estates is the latest small property company to go private. Fund manager Lynch Talbot is making a 60p-a-share cash offer for Orb through its wholly-owned subsidiary Tabsie Ventures. The offer values Orb at £24m and is being financed with a loan from Royal Bank of Scotland . It is ...
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News
Property the dominant force despite share inertia
Property shares outperformed the overall stock market for the fourth week in a row last week despite remaining static. The Real Estate Index stuck at 1972 but the All-Share dropped for a second week to 3030 from 3059. Of the majors, Canary Wharf Group was the biggest riser, up ...
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Professional
Damages limitations
A recent case serves as a cautionary tale regarding the limits on the damages that can be claimed against surveyors, but surveyors can't rest on their laurels.
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News
Power giant cooks up giant West End deal
Enron is on the hunt for one million sq ft of office space to cope with seven-fold expansion
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Markets
Confidence in the workplace
Developers and occupiers alike are pushing the market for good-quality office developments.
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Insight
Cold storage
The statistics in FOCUS on Retail Demand reveal that retailers demand for space has fallen. Christine Eade analyses what this means for the market and reports on the areas are that are hot and those that are not
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Markets
A touch of class
Affluent residents to the south and east of Birmingham will be spoilt for choice when buying clothes and home furnishings from next year. How much of a threat will Solihull pose to the rest of the West Midlands after doubling the size of its retail offer, asks Guy Sheppard
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News
Etam clears deputy of fraud claim
Retailer withdraws writ against former group property manager Fretten, ending four-year fight that ruined autumn of his career
