All Property Week articles in 8 June 2007 – Page 6

  • Professional

    Site contamination

    8 June 2007

    Question: My local authority has made planning consent for housing development on a former metal plating site conditional on remediation. Could risk assessment demonstrate that this is unnecessary?

  • News

    Urban regeneration company ReB

    8 June 2007

    Urban regeneration company ReBlackpool is pinning its hopes on funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks programme for its People’s Playground scheme in the Lancashire resort.

  • Scarcity: delays in rebuilding Ground Zero have added to the supply shortage
    News

    Manhattan view: Steve Cuozzo Condo cocktail gets commercial shakedown

    8 June 2007

    The office market is overtaking residential in the Big Apple, says New York Post managing editor Steve Cuozzo

  • Markets

    Legal & General markets Hove City Park space

    8 June 2007

    Five prospective office tenants are vying to take the surplus space that Legal & General has failed to fill at City Park in Hove. Legal & General made headlines two years ago by relocating its Hove staff to Mountgrange’s speculative 200,000 sq ft City Park on the former Alliance ...

  • News

    City view: Jenny Davey

    8 June 2007

    All that glitters is not gold, but in the case of investors who bought shops in Bond Street during the last five years, the returns have been even better than buying the precious metal.

  • News

    Grimley given a Chance at Wharf

    8 June 2007

    Clifford Chance has appointed GVA Grimley to market space at its London headquarters at 10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, with CB Richard Ellis. The law firm wants to sublet 79,527 sq ft of its 11th, 16th and 17th floors in the 30-storey 1m sq ft Kohn Pederson Fox-designed building. ...

  • News

    Cerberus and Hilco team up for Focus DIY project

    8 June 2007

    Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm, and US debt specialist Hilco are set to agree the purchase of Focus, the DIY retailer today.

  • Professional

    Case news

    8 June 2007

    Jonathan Ross reports on how a tenant lost out in a Court of Appeal decision over rent, while Warren Gordon looks at a property adviser’s defence of statutory limitation

  • Insight

    A sound economy means property can’t go too far wrong

    8 June 2007

    The developer’s view, with Mike Slade

  • News

    Westminster set to defer Candy scheme

    8 June 2007

    Westminster City Council was last night expected to defer a decision on the future of the Middlesex Hospital site in London’s West End.

  • News

    Colliers CRE opens in Cambridge

    8 June 2007

    Dodson Jones focused on business space, high-tech and life sciences sectors.

  • News

    Savills calls ‘turn’ in market

    8 June 2007

    Savills claimed this week the market had reached a ‘turning point’ in its annual Financing Property presentation.

  • Professional

    Cadogan wins landmark long-leasehold victory

    8 June 2007

    Court rules that mixed-use head lessees do not have automatic right to extend tenure

  • News

    Cadbury Uxbridge move

    8 June 2007

    Cadbury Schweppes is to move to Macquarie Goodman’s Uxbridge Business Park in west London next spring.

  • News

    JLL buys project and cost manager

    8 June 2007

    Jones Lang LaSalle has bought project and cost manager KHK Group.

  • News

    Norwich buys in Oxford Street

    8 June 2007

    Norwich Property Trust, managed by Morley, has bought Academy House at 161-167 Oxford Street in London’s West End from an Irish client of Morgan Williams for £48m, reflecting an equivalent yield of 5%.

  • News

    Oregan buys Victoria offices

    8 June 2007

    Irish company Oregan Financial, headed by stockbroker Joe O’Regan, has bought 10-18 Victoria Street in Westminster for £70m at a yield of 4.2%.

  • News

    PPG buys Leeds shops and offices

    8 June 2007

    PPG Land has bought a 30,500 sq ft retail and office block at 4-5 Albion Place and 9 Lands Lane in Leeds for £16.4m from CB Richard Ellis Investors a net initial yield of 4.85%. HP Four and Gooch Cunliffe Whale advised the vendor; Jones Lang LaSalle advised PPG.

  • Markets

    Ucky business

    8 June 2007

    Proposals for a new Argos have unsettled tenants at Uckfield’s market hall. Christine Eade reports

  • Showing his colours: Taylor opposes the Beetham Tower
    Markets

    Brighton’s green light

    8 June 2007

    Green Party councillor Keith Taylor is bringing a new agenda to the seaside town’s planning committee.