All Property Week articles in 8 September 2000 – Page 3

  • Markets

    Business parks comment: environmental control is an advantage managers must use

    8 September 2000

    Ten years ago there was no difference between office rents in town centres and on the edge of towns. Investors were sceptical about whether business parks could compete with established town centres. Those doubts have disappeared and business parks are no longer the poor relations. Over recent years, ...

  • Markets

    Planning - Allocation process well advanced

    8 September 2000

    Much of the land needed for development has been identified, with Colchester set for regeneration.

  • News

    Mapeley wins struggle for Abbey National's portfolio

    8 September 2000

    Soros consortium wins outsourcing contract for sale-and-leaseback of more than 6m sq ft of bank s estate

  • News

    Levi’s man rides to Liberty

    8 September 2000

    MWB chief executive Richard Balfour-Lynn has begun the transformation of retailer Liberty by making two appointments to the board. David Stroud, a former adviser to Levi s, has been appointed as commercial director and Lesley Norris, a former MWB-consultant, has been appointed finance director at the 125-year-old Regent ...

  • Markets

    The sky’s the limit

    8 September 2000

    Bigger, bolder and, some would say, wackier schemes have been unveiled throughout this year.

  • Markets

    Planning: implications of Local Plan inspector’s rejection of new settlement plans

    8 September 2000

    Wokingham District Council HAS received news that the Local Plan inspector has rejected all three proposals for new settlements of 2,500 homes south of the M4. The competing schemes included those at Shinfield, promoted by the University of Reading Spencers Wood and the council s preferred ...

  • News

    Scudder starts with a £33.5m portfolio buy

    8 September 2000

    Scudder Threadneedle has kick-started its property limited partnership, Scudder Threadneedle Tandem Property Fund with the acquisition of a £33.5m portfolio from Hemingway Properties . The nine-property portfolio is a mixture of office and retail that produces a total income of £2.85m, giving a net initial yield of 8.1% and a ...

  • News

    Railtrack aims for 20 depots

    8 September 2000

    Rail freight network would require greenbelt development

  • News

    Global Switch builds £1bn of sites

    8 September 2000

    Andy Ruhan, the Birmingham entrepreneur behind internet hotel business Global Switch, has revealed that nine additional international centres are under construction. The £1bn-plus development programme will create a network of facilities, prior to the company s flotation. Ruhan said: The flotation will probably be some time next year. The ...