All Property Week articles in 7 July 2000 – Page 2

  • Markets

    Shopping and changing

    7 July 2000

    Birmingham joins the fashionable fray to become a shopper s paradise.

  • Markets

    An outside chance

    7 July 2000

    For years, speculative industrial schemes in the West Midlands have been dominated by local developers. Now investors from outside the region are trying to muscle in on the sector.

  • Insight

    London calling

    7 July 2000

    These are the people advising Ken Livingstone on issues in London that will affect the property industry. Kristina Smith and Christine Eade look at how the Greater London Authority fits together

  • News

    Jonas eats into business for a net foothold

    7 July 2000

    Drivers Jonas has revealed an internet project that will cannibalise between 10% and 15% of the firm s business in an initiative designed to shake-up the surveying world. Rather than focusing on agency, Groundbreaker.Net will offer online property advice for occupiers or managers of commercial property. A separate company ...

  • News

    First Brum core offices in years

    7 July 2000

    Frontier Estates , the milton Keynes-based developer backed by Palmer Capital Partners, received planning permission from Birmingham City Council for Spectrum, a speculative 5,300 sq m (57,000 sq ft) office scheme in Edmund Street. The scheme is expected to help alleviate the shortage of Grade A office space in ...

  • Professional

    Fat boys slim

    7 July 2000

    The young agent’s lifestyle can be a never-ending social whirl of lunching and drinking. But while the deals are being done, what price is your body paying?

  • Markets

    Staying within the boundaries

    7 July 2000

    A shortage of industrial space needs to be addressed to fulfil current and future demands.

  • News

    Office or home bids

    7 July 2000

    Grosvenor Estate has put its former headquarters on the commercial and residential markets to see which raises the highest price. The estate has instructed Jones Lang Lasalle to search for office occupiers and Peter Wetherell of Wetherell & Co the Mayfair estate agent to look for those who ...

  • News

    Entrepreneur set to bid for M&S City flagship

    7 July 2000

    Private group Afon due to announce cheeky plans for 30-storey tower at Fenchurch Street

  • News

    Raglan and Eskmuir join privatisation bandwagon

    7 July 2000

    Two small property companies to quit stock market because lack of investor interest

  • News

    Strong market aids Saville NAV success

    7 July 2000

    Industrial specialist launches 'transparent' property contracts for occupiers

  • Markets

    Industrial research: automotive industry take-up drops off after four years

    7 July 2000

    This year is likely to see the lowest total take-up of new-build industrial and distribution space in the West Midlands since 1996. Based on the take-up totals so far this year, it is projected that the total for the year will be 200,425 sq m (2.15m sq ft). This figure ...

  • News

    GLA acts to keep an eye on Ken’s planning powers

    7 July 2000

    Development in London is to get an extra layer of scrutiny with the creation of a planning committee at the Greater London Authority . This development has added to industry concerns about the prospect of further bureaucracy clogging up London planning. The committee will scrutinise the newly elected mayor s ...

  • News

    Task Force Report delay ‘disgrace’

    7 July 2000

    The DETR select committee reporting on the Urban White Paper has slammed the Treasury for the inertia on implementing Lord Rogers Urban Task Force Report. In a report published yesterday Andrew Bennett MP accused the Treasury of kicking the task force report into deep jungle . Bennett ...

  • News

    NHP nurses £7m losses

    7 July 2000

    Nursing Home Properties has reported a £7m pre-tax loss in the six months to 31 March, after taking an £18m hit from exceptional items. The biggest single writedown £14m was taken after the company assessed that Ultima, a tenant for which it agreed to provide bank ...

  • News

    AIG’s £625m new fund forEuropean property assault

    7 July 2000

    Former AXA Sun Life man Mark Burton heads rush to secure funds from US and Middle East investors for Euro venture

  • News

    Portfolio bags Centre Point in £392m bid for Oldham

    7 July 2000

    Investor swoops for vintage Oldham Estate portfolio in shadow of MEPC s imminent deal with Hermes and GE Capital

  • News

    L&G in £27m Manchester sale

    7 July 2000

    Legal & General has completed the biggest office investment deal in Manchester this year. The fund has agreed to sell its long leasehold interest in Heron House on Albert Square to a private client of Andrew Barrs for £27m, reflecting a net initial yield of 6.75% on the ...

  • News

    Mentmore declares 130% profit increase

    7 July 2000

    Pre-tax profits hit £15.7m for space management company as all divisions come good