All Property Week articles in 8 October 1999
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News
Springtime for Meadowhall
Meadowhall Shopping Centre near Sheffield has risen in value by 7% to £1.25bn in the three months since British Land agreed to purchase it. An indicative valuation of the centre has been carried out for British Land as at 1 November, the date of the completion of the ...
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Professional
Making the web work
A dedicated web site should be more than just a status symbol. Lucy Benyon looks at how internet presence can be an effective marketing tool to help small businesses compete with larger firms, and talks to people who have made the web work for them
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Markets
Letting loose
Glasgow's market is improving, but oversupply is on the horizon, reports Stewart McIntosh
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Professional
Human rights, property wrongs
Unlikely as it may sound, the new Human Rights Act may have serious implications for the property industry, says Jennifer McDermott
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Insight
Hit the north
The government s annual survey of regional trends has revealed a huge difference between the prosperity of the north and south. In the second part of our feature on the RDAs strategies, Lucy Benyon asks whether the northern agencies will succeed in addressing the disparity
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Markets
Too hard to hurt
Rolling with the punches comes as second nature to every streetwise Glaswegian, but can the city absorb the shock of two massive shopping centres kicking in, asks Stewart McIntosh
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Moorfield sells giant portfolio
Moorfield Capital Partners is close to concluding the largest portfolio disposal since its formation in March. The £392m joint venture between Royal & SunAlliance, Moorfield Estates and the Barclay brothers is close to concluding a deal with Brixton Estates to offload an industrial portfolio ...
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Walton under fire over Liverpool site plans
A Liverpool MP has called for an urgent government investigation into the Walton Group, the controversial developer embroiled in three disputes over major city centre sites. Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside, has asked deputy prime minister John Prescott to look into a £4.4m DoE grant awarded to the ...
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Returns rise in the fall
Annual total returns rose to their highest level this year in September, according to the latest Richard Ellis St Quintin Monthly Index. After recording 10.5% in each of the previous three months, returns jumped to 11.2% in September. Year-on-year performance is now benefiting from the weakness in the market ...
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Investors shun UK for the euro-zone
British property is in danger of losing investors as a wall of money heads towards the Continent, an expert on European investment warned this week. 'Britain is already feeling the pinch,' said LaSalle Investment Management 's European director Christophe de Taurines. 'Nearly all the open-ended funds are looking in ...
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Markets
Notebook Sold down the river
For generations the Clyde was the economic heart of Glasgow. Can it beat as strongly again?
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Research It's official: Scottish property is different
Factors influencing take-up of space in Scotland don't match what's happening in the rest of the Britain.
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Docklands developers pay the price
Developers have been told they must stump up substantial funding to masterplan a swathe of London Docklands but they won t earn the right to hold the reins of development power. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets this week issued a detailed briefing document inviting masterplanning teams ...
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Rodamco in West End deal
Newly floated property company Rodamco UK is to redevelop a slice of London s West End with a £30m office scheme. The 5,700 sq m (61,420 sq ft) development at Kinnaird House in Pall Mall, managed for Rodamco by Haslemere Estates, is the culmination of more than a year ...
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Dundee City of Discovery finds market on the up
Call centres and leisure are staying strong.
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Developer Comment New life in old centres
Traditional investment strategies ignore the potential in neighbourhood shopping centres.
