All Property Week articles in 8 April 2004 – Page 2
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EH’s friendly face
English Heritage has unveiled a new system of heritage protection, designed to reduce conflict with owners and developers, writes Polly Mackenzie. Under the proposed system, EH will establish statutory management agreements on listed properties, outlining a strategy for maintaining buildings in use. EH yesterday announced a pilot scheme: 15 ...
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Professional
Going down?
The methods used to design lift systems in offices are unreliable and out of date.
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Double fund launch opens the door for retail investors
Two new property investment funds open to private investors were launched this week, both aiming to capitalise on the improving south-east property market. The funds have been launched by Southampton-based financial specialist Buchanans Corporate Capital, which aims to raise £2m of equity from investors through the limited partnership vehicles. Wealthy ...
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Markets
Flats dominate resi supply
Residential supply is rapidly being dominated by the development of flats, and this movement – partly fuelled by government policy – is undermining the government’s renewed efforts to solve the housing shortage, according to new research from FPDSavills. In its latest residential research bulletin, the firm says that flats accounted ...
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Full disclosure
A new clampdown could almost extinguish tax avoidance in the property industry.
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Vive La Défense
Lesson three: how the Parisian office market kept its head above water in a time of worldwide economic strife.
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Cyril Sweett launches sustainability team
Project manager and cost consultancy Cyril Sweett has launched an in-house team to advise developers on sustainability. It will be led by Adam Mactavish and Isabel McAllister, recruited from environmental consultant Entec.
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Newcastle warehouse conversion
An old bonded sherry warehouse in the quayside area of Newcastle upon Tyne is to be transformed into a £30m development by local housebuilder Adamson Developments. Adamson has secured planning permission to turn the 160-year-old eight-storey property into 134 flats as part of the ongoing regeneration of the city's quayside ...
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Gleeds closes M&S management deal
Gleeds has clinched a three-year deal with Marks & Spencer to manage its property repairs contracts for 300 branches. A team of 22 has been created at Gleeds to run the service, previously administered by WS Atkins.
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Savills still top of share league as rivals close in
Last year's runaway winner joint top with St Modwen and LAP after a good start to 2004 for property
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Listing threat to City landmarks
Preservation orders on post-war buildings could scupper development in Square Mile
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Inner City: John Waples
The headhunters at the international search company Egon Zehnder International have a tough job on their hands trying to find a successor to Chris Peacock , the former chief executive at Jones Lang LaSalle . There are some worthy internal candidates, including Peter Barge, who runs the Asia Pacific region; ...
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SIICS and the city
Lesson one: As our government considers introducing a tax-transparent property vehicle, France has found that its equivalent – known as the SIIC – has raised share prices and increased trading. Natalie Stevenson reports
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Professional
CHP turns up the heat
A permanent forum to raise awareness and adoption of combined heat and power (CHP) technology has been launched by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. CHP helps to reduce running costs and carbon emissions, the institution says. The group will hold its first one-day seminar on 20 May. More ...
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Chesterton Newcastle chief quits for rival firm
The head of Chesterton 's Newcastle upon Tyne office has quit to join a new firm set up by Chesterton's former deputy chairman Gavin Black. Chris Pearson, an office leasing specialist, has left after 16 years with the firm to join Gavin Black's eponymous new property consultancy in the city. ...
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Check-in time
Volatile demand at secondary locations is the only cloud on the horizon for the airport hotel market.
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Silverlink steams in to Newcastle centre
North-east specialist selected to develop historic Stephenson Quarter
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Townsend celebrates his century
John Townsend, senior auctioneer at Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker , celebrated his 100th auction this week at a surprise drinks party held in his honour at BAFTA in London’s Piccadilly. More than 200 of Townsend’s colleagues and friends were there to mark the occasion. Townsend said: ‘It was ...
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Post-auction sales highlight caution
Prospect of interest rate rise threatens to dampen investors’ enthusiasm
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Hammerson buys Exchange site
Hammerson has been confirmed as the buyer of the prestigious London Stock Exchange site for £68m. As exclusively revealed in Property Week, the company has beaten rivals Buckingham Securities, and consortia of Hines and UBS, and Greycoat with Starwood Capital. The site comes with consent for a Nicholas ...
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