All Property Week articles in 9 April 2010 – Page 5

  • Online

    Underground five-star hotel plans submitted

    2010-04-09T09:19:00Z

    Plans for a five-star underground hotel at Hersham Golf Club have been submitted today by Claudel Venture Holdings, part of the international leisure company Arkin Group to Elmbridge Borough Council

  • Online

    Property to feature in Tories’ £6bn savings plan

    2010-04-09T09:18:00Z

    The Conservative Party has explained how it plans to make efficiency savings worth £6bn in the current financial year if it wins power at the general election.

  • Online

    McPherson buys Ethel Austin again

    2010-04-09T09:15:00Z

    Ethel Austin, the clothing chain, has been sold back to Elaine McPherson for a second time. McPherson previously bought the budget clothing business out of administration in 2008.

  • Online

    John Lewis reviews future of Chelsea development site

    2010-04-09T09:13:00Z

    The John Lewis Partnership is reviewing the future of a prime Chelsea development site.

  • Online

    LaSalle completes Munich office scheme

    2010-04-09T08:16:00Z

    LaSalle Investment Management has completed Metris, an office development in Munich, Germany.

  • News

    Parties’ property plans

    9 April 2010

    The Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties this week set out their stalls to lead the country as prime minister Gordon Brown confirmed that the general election will be held on 6 May. But what are their positions on policies that might affect the property industry?

  • News

    Pop on, pop in and pop out

    9 April 2010

    Standard Life Investments hosted probably the most glamorous party to ever have been held by a property fund manager last week.

  • Insight

    New rates spell trouble

    9 April 2010

    Sir, I want to purchase a business in the London area that includes freehold property (Professional, 26.03.10)

  • News

    Starwood reaches milestone

    9 April 2010

    US-based hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide opened its 1,000th hotel this week: the Sheraton Qiandao Lake Resort in Chun’an County, Hangzhou, China.

  • News

    Lifted spirits

    9 April 2010

    Surveying firm Kenington celebrated its 75th birthday a fortnight ago at the Marylebone Hotel on Welbeck Street in London’s West End.

  • News

    Resi landlords vote Tory

    9 April 2010

    Residential landlords believe a Conservative government would best represent the private-rented sector, a survey by Young Group has found. In the residential developer’s latest Young Index, 84% of the landlords questioned said a Tory government would bring the biggest benefit to their sector. Only 13% thought Labour would create the ...

  • News

    Savills prize Lamb

    9 April 2010

    Savills’ city leasing agent Josh Lamb is used to towering over the competition, which is understandable when you are 6 ft 7 in tall

  • News

    Knit won

    9 April 2010

    Business services company Opus Trust Group has taken 14,100 sq ft at Great Portland Estates’ Woolyard scheme on Bermondsey Street, near London Bridge, on a 20-year lease at £395,000 a year.

  • Markets

    Greater incentives now than in recession

    9 April 2010

    Report counters recent suggestions that it is no longer an occupiers’ market

  • News

    A glass and a half on the high street

    9 April 2010

    US owner Kraft plays on Cadbury’s British heritage with launch of 60 Cocoa House cafes

  • News

    Servicer gets ‘mixed results’ from Maud

    9 April 2010

    CB Richard Ellis Loan Servicing said its efforts to “engage positively” with Glenn Maud’s Propinvest to actively manage a portfolio of properties held in a securitised debt vehicle had “produced mixed results”.

  • Markets

    London Gateway targets high street retailers

    9 April 2010

    DP World seeks prelets for massive deep-sea port on Thames

  • News

    Furniture Village’s hat-trick

    9 April 2010

    Furniture retailer Furniture Village has taken a 16,000 sq ft former Curry’s unit with a full trading mezzanine on Kingston Road in New Malden, south London.

  • News

    Fund managers must prioritise

    9 April 2010

    The latest data shows that the UK exited the recession at the end of 2009 with greater momentum than initially estimated. There is a growing feeling that the worst is over and that, while the recovery will remain sluggish beyond 2010, life has returned to property markets around the globe. ...

  • Insight

    Nationwide: Susan Freeman

    9 April 2010

    Westminster’s Angela Hooper was property peacemaker