All Property Week articles in 8 June 2012 – Page 7
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Markets
English Cities plans third phase for Merchant Gate
English Cities Fund, the joint venture between Muse Developments, Legal & General, and the Homes and Communities Agency, is in discussions to launch a third phase of its Merchant Gate scheme in Wakefield.
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News
Widows cheers Keir with spec funds for Roxhill in Northants
Sheds veteran wins funding package for largest speculative development since Lehman Brothers collapse
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News
IPD’s service charge pilot
IPD is piloting a new benchmarking service to provide greater transparency on service charges, which are a source of conflict between landlords and tenants.
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Markets
Threadneedle’s Core challenge
Threadneedle has bought the Core shopping centre in Leeds out of receivership for more than £38m.
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News
Olympian takes CBRE for spin
Spot the Olympic cyclist among the industrial property agents. Hint: he has massive thighs and is in the centre (below).
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News
Clinton Cards creditor shows its hand
US group Schurman Retail is to meet with landlords next week to outline its strategy for collapsed retailer Clinton Cards, which it was close to buying as Property Week went to press.
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Markets
Calling developers for Old Oak Common
Developers will be asked to come forward to consult on the regeneration of a huge site to the north of Wormwood Scrubs next summer. This will follow the publication of an initial “Opportunity Area Planning Framework”.
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Markets
Restaurants on menu at Ealing Broadway
Wereldhave is to target new restaurateurs for its revamped leisure units, in addition to Republic, Arcadia brands, Superdry and an Apple reseller at Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre.
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News
Intimissimi extends Oxford Street brief
Italian lingerie retailer Intimissimi has signed up for its second store on London’s Oxford Street.
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Markets
Long-suffering Bradford’s patience with Westfield finally snaps
Protestors descended on Westfield’s Bradford site last week, demanding a public inquiry into why the developer had made no progress on its planned retail scheme in the past eight years.
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Insight
China’s property boom reminds me of Spain
On a recent trip to China, I found the evidence of a sagging property market overwhelming. Going from Beijing via Nanjing and Kunshan to Shanghai, I was reminded of the property boom and bust in Spain: empty apartment blocks and numerous too-big-to-finish projects.
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Markets
CBRE markets historic Briggate retail block
A prime retail block on Leeds’ main shopping street, Briggate, has been brought to the market by CBRE.
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News
Investors throw in their hand — and blame their fund manager
The unravelling of the German open-ended fund sector has been relatively dramatic. Two separate €6bn funds closed within three weeks of each other, showing investors and fund managers are clearly not happy.
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News
Blackstone takes on Lloyds’ Oz default loans
Blackstone and Morgan Stanley have bought £809m of distressed Australian property loans from Lloyds Banking Group.
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Markets
And finally … happy birthday Dransfield
Many happy returns to Barnsley-based Dransfield Properties, which this year celebrates its 20th birthday and is showing Mary Portas a thing or two about reviving beleaguered high streets.
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Professional
Two degrees of separation between us and ‘extremely dangerous’ climate
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while someone delivers such a skilful and impassioned assault on received wisdom that it feels like being caught smack on the chin by a thunderous right hook.
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Markets
Hammerson bets on Eastgate casino
Hammerson’s director of retail development, Robin Dobson, insists its £600m Eastgate scheme in Leeds is firmly on track, although a start date for the development has still not been set.
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Markets
Benson Elliot plans Ealing facelift
Arcadia Centre will be redeveloped to attract potential Crossrail footfall. David Hatcher reports
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Markets
What goes up … west London is at risk of becoming victim of own success
We made our investment in Hammersmith Grove in the dark days of 2009. With no new developments in Hammersmith for the past decade, we wait to see whether our 110,000 sq ft prime office building will be a triumph of foresight despite the gloomy economic landscape.
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Professional
Desert island bricks: Barney Kelham
Head of developer UK & European Investments Barney Kelham shares his favourite buildings from across the world