All Property Week articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 9
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News
AAIM director LeGassick in Labour ‘cash for mention’ affair
Stuart LeGassick, joint founder of AAIM, has donated £25,000 to the Labour Party at an auction, in exchange for a plug in spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s new book, All in the Mind.
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News
Bargain hunters boost Allsop success rate to 86%
Distressed residential lots help auction house to almost £60m of sales
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News
JLL auction sells less than 60%
Jones Lang LaSalle was the weakest performer of the big auction houses in the October commercial sales.
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Insight
Over-55 ‘empty nesters’ should downsize to free up market
Sir, I was interested to hear minister for housing Margaret Beckett’s reaction to Julie Rugg’s regulation recommendations for the private rental sector this week and can only hope that positive praise from the government is converted into positive action in the very near future.
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News
Cripp steers Andrews & Robertson to £5.8m
In its first auction since it was acquired by Robin Cripp earlier this year, Andrews & Robertson, in association with Willmotts, sold just under half its residential catalogue.
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News
Jones Lang LaSalle to cut up to 40 more jobs
Jones Lang LaSalle is to make a further 30-40 redundancies as economic conditions deteriorate.
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Online
Multi on its marks at £300m Wolverhampton scheme
Developer pledges to start on site in March after Marks & Spencer signs up
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Online
Ashwell seeks £30m to plug Icelandic funding gap
Developer ‘reviewing a range of options’ with administrator over giant Chelmsford scheme
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Online
BAA pledges £230m of Crossrail funding
Airport operator BAA has agreed £230m of funding for Crossrail, London’s proposed £16bn east-west rail link.
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Professional
Lend Lease reports 23% reduction in Meadows energy use
Lend Lease’s Sustainability Update, published last week, announced a 23% reduction in energy use at its Meadows shopping centre in Chelmsford over two years to 30 June.
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Online
Barcelona Office Market View Q3 2008
Prime rents fall for Barcelona offices despite low vacancy rate, finds CBRE’s latest research into Barcelona’ s office market.
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News
City view: 7 November 2008
For property investors the most terrifying aspect of this recession is another R word.
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Online
German Open-Ended Funds September 2008, research from CBRE
The events of late September and the German government guarantee of bank despots resulted in major reallocation from different investment classes, including GOEFs. As a result the September net inflows into the GOEFs were negative, at -€238 million.
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Online
CBRE’s Berlin office market view Q3 2008
Office vacancy stable as take-up falls behind 2007 level
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News
First Rand Bank takes first 20 Gracechurch Street letting
Aviva Investors and Atlas Capital Group have confirmed the first office letting at 20 Gracechurch Street in the City of London.
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Markets
Argent self-funds £2bn King’s Cross development
Argent’s £2bn King’s Cross scheme, which faced delays when financing fell through, is picking up speed now that the developer is funding the project itself.
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News
NFU Mutual’s £15.3m purchase
NFU Mutual Insurance Society has bought a £15.3m block next to its £50m retail and leisure centre, the Brewery, in Cheltenham.
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Online
Catalyst converts £1.7bn AAIM fund
Fund manager set to take over running of celebrity-backed investor’s Symmetry fund
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News
Zakay dips into £1bn pot for Spanish supermarket sweep
Topland buys 15-strong Eroski portfolio in €361m sale-and-leaseback agreement