All Property Week articles in 8 April 2004 – Page 3

  • News

    Halladale buys Gt Yarmouth mall

    8 April 2004

    Scottish property company Halladale has bought the 163,000 sq ft (15,143 sq m) Market Gate Shopping Centre in Great Yarmouth for £22.7m in a joint venture with Anglo Irish UK Property Fund and a private Irish investor. The deal, which reflects a net initial yield of 6.75%, was funded ...

  • News

    Hall's Wynyard Business Park gets go-ahead

    8 April 2004

    Planning permission has been granted for the first building at Wynyard Business Park on Teesside, owned by the former Newcastle United Football Club chairman Sir John Hall. The developers – Hall's company Cameron Hall and Industrial Securities, which is part of Mark Steinberg's Marcol Group – have secured detailed permission ...

  • News

    RICS slams 'pointless' FSA building insurance rules

    8 April 2004

    Regulations could ruin small firms, institution tells Gordon Brown

  • News

    Spring brings lettings in south Manchester

    8 April 2004

    South Manchester's office market is returning to life with a spate of letting activity after two difficult years. Caudwell Holdings, which owns retailer Phones 4u, has bought Building 1 at Taylor Woodrow 's Christie Fields office park in south Manchester for its own occupation. The speculatively built building totals ...

  • Markets

    Bon Marseille

    8 April 2004

    LESSON FOUR: Marseille shows how urban regeneration and inward investment has been achieved with an almost utopian vision of the public-private partnership.

  • Professional

    DLA recruits partners for Birmingham office

    8 April 2004

    Law firm DLA has poached two new property partners for its Birmingham office. Planning specialist Peter Taylor was previously with regional firm Hewitsons and becomes head of the planning team. Alex Jones specialises in property development and finance; he moves from Pinsetts.  

  • Markets

    Berth control

    8 April 2004

    Developers are hoping to get the go-ahead this week on four schemes to bring extra capacity to Britain's ports.

  • News

    Barwood plans mixed-use at Northants site

    8 April 2004

    Midlands-based developer Barwood has bought the final phase of development land at ProLogis's Grange Park near Northampton for a mixed-use scheme. Barwood is planning a £15m development on the 8 acre (3.2 ha) site, to include 50,000 sq ft (4,645 sq m) of offices, a public house and a care ...

  • News

    Irish bank buys Oxford centre

    8 April 2004

    Irish fund manager AIB Investment Managers has bought the Northgate Quarter shopping centre on Magdalen Street in Oxford for nearly £25.6m. The price reflects a net initial yield of 5.5%. The 170,506 sq ft (15,841 sq m) retail scheme was developed by Crest Nicholson and sold by Standard Life ...

  • Professional

    Balancing tenants' and investors' needs

    8 April 2004

    Detailed valuation methods have role to play in new era

  • Professional

    Gaffney appointed Mace & Jones partner

    8 April 2004

    Northern law firm Mace & Jones has appointed Mark Gaffney as a property partner based in its Liverpool office. Gaffney was previously with Addleshaw Goddard and has worked on property projects including the Commonwealth Games Sportcity site and Stonebridge Cross in Liverpool.  

  • News

    Slough changes agents

    8 April 2004

    Slough Estates has dropped Jones Lang LaSalle and CB Richard Ellis as agents on its Bath Road offices in Slough in favour of FPDSavills and Knight Frank . The appointment involves around 100,000 sq ft (9,300 sq m) of offices and development sites.

  • Professional

    ODPM and the Valuation Office Agency

    8 April 2004

    The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has apologised to local authorities for wrongly assessing the level of inflation used to adjust Business Rate Bills, not the Valuation Office Agency as stated in ‘In brief’.

  • News

    Suzuki roars into Milton Keynes after EP deal

    8 April 2004

    Motor vehicle manufacturer Suzuki is to relocate its UK parts distribution facility to Milton Keynes after buying a site from English Partnerships . Suzuki has bought a 10 acre (4 ha) site in Snelshall West, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, and signed a development agreement with shed specialist Rosemound ...

  • News

    Kempner stays as chief at Benchmark after GE deal

    8 April 2004

    GE Real Estate confirms £273m agreement for West End specialist and will keep 'respected team'

  • Markets

    Affluent foreign students to finance halls’ growth

    8 April 2004

    Influx of wealthy overseas students’ requirements will establish new property investment asset class

  • News

    Kelly to address BPF conference

    8 April 2004

    The British Property Federation ’s conference will be held in Brighton on 22 and 23 April. The timely event follows last month’s Budget, when the chancellor launched a consultation exercise on REITs, and the deputy prime minister’s imminent launch of consultation on flexible leases. Treasury financial secretary Ruth Kelly is ...

  • News

    Arlington buy ends long saga of Aberdeen sale

    8 April 2004

    Aberdeen Property Investors finally to be sold to business park specialist