All Property Week articles in 9 February 2001
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Professional
Tenants' right to terminate
It was previously thought that accepted repudiation related only to the law of contract. However, times are changing and the doctoring can now apply to the law of leases
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Professional
Q&A
Is a covenant to keep 'in good condition and repair' more onerous than one simply to repair?
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Professional
People
Hot propertyPeter Pereira Gray, 48 next week, has been appointed property investment manager at the Wellcome Trust. Formerly a director of fund management at Prudential Property he is responsible for the managing trust's commercial and residential property investment portfolio. A father of three, he says his interest are his ...
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News
Oracle reduces space
Hi-tech company Oracle has delivered a blow to the Midlands market by significantly scaling down its plans at Blythe Valley Park in Solihull.
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Markets
Sussex: top shopping locations
The table and map attached, based on the results of The National Survey of Local Shopping Patterns, shows the top 10 comparison goods trading locations in Sussex. The first column shows the comparison goods shopping population attracted by each trading location. The second and third columns show the accumulated comparison ...
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Insight
At Liberty
MWB's strategy of diversification has been well received by the City. But can a property company really reverse the fortunes of an ailing department store? We talk to Richard Balfour-Lynn and newly appointed Liberty chief executive Fiona Harrison
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Professional
Labour's law man
The name of minister David Lock has been appearing more and more in the papers. Liz Hamson meets the man who is putting property law issues in the news
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News
Property returns start to improve
Property returns have started 2001 with signs that the weakening performance of recent months may be levelling out. All property capital values on the Insignia Richard Ellis Monthly Index rose in January for the first time since last August. The principal driver was the office sector with capital growth ...
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News
Hammersmith set for new rent record
Hammersmith's record office rent since the last cycle looks set to be broken with a deal at £419.80/sq m (£39/sq ft). Business-to-business procurement manager Advantage E is in negotiations to take 1,850 sq m (19,915 sq ft) on the top floor of the Waterfront building at Hammersmith Embankment. Jones ...
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News
Pepper poaches pair of Greens
Specialist City agent Morgan Pepper has poached two management specialists from Kinney Green to set up a specialist asset management arm.
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News
Mixed news for Finelist units
More than 200 landlords owning properties leased to companies in the Finelist Group, which collapsed last October, will soon have new tenants.
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News
NTL squeezed by US telecoms fear
Signs that the telecoms market is feeling the chill from America increased this week when NTL decided to assign the leases on 10,220 sq m (110,000 sq ft) it pre-let last year, before it even moved in.
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News
Edinburgh store plans speculative office scheme
Edinburgh shopping institution Wilkies has finalised plans to demolish its flagship 100-year-old Edinburgh store on Shandwick Place and replace it with a speculative office scheme and a revamped shop.
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News
Full house: Edinburgh's Greenside Place success helps strengthen Princes Street's east end
Pillar Projects and Parlison Properties are about to tie up deals on the remaining space at their 23,225 sq m (250,000 sq ft) Omni leisure scheme at Greenside Place in Edinburgh.
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Markets
Docklands offices: No room at the Wharf
As Canary Wharf's supply line runs dry, there are new prospects for Docklands.
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Markets
Planning: South Downs review may stifle development
Despite John Prescott's victory over West Sussex County Council, forcing it to accommodate more houses than it wished, the argument continues in neighbouring East Sussex.
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News
Let the people decide the future of the Dome
I have an admission to make. Despite being a keen critic of the way in which the government has mismanaged the Millennium Dome, I rather like the structure.
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Markets
Crawley offices: Going steady
The outlook for Crawley is stable, with take-up expected to continue in 2001
