All Property Week articles in 9 July 1999 – Page 2
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Evans set to go private despite minority veto
Evans of Leeds has gained shareholder approval for its controversial plans to go private, despite a significant minority voting against the deal. The Evans family, founder and majority owner of the company, was offering 125p a share for the 47% it did not already own, compared with net asset ...
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A new dawn for tenants: the landlord that likes to say yes
This report warns that the traditional stand-off relationship between landlord and tenant will no longer work. Property owners must become as dynamic as their occupiers
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Crossing the fence
Are you a thirty- something industrial agent who admires the Richardson twins and one day hopes to emulate their position as the most famous property tycoons in the West Midlands? If so, you should be well placed to start realising your secret ambition. In the last two years, ...
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Sent to Coventry
Coventry has 150,000 households in its catchment, but fails to live up to its potential as a retail centre. This report examines whether a string of new schemes will improve the town's fortunes
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Coventry
Development and regeneration characterise Coventry s property scene as we approach the new millennium. Both are guaranteed to push the city s profile higher, both regionally and nationally. Relocation to the city coupled with the expansion of existing occupiers has resulted in a dearth of quality stock in all sectors, ...
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Row over greenbelt continues
The government is racing ahead to end the row over industrial development proposals which could infringe on greenbelt land. While attention has concentrated on the Rogers Committee proposals for urban regeneration, Whitehall has quietly commissioned research into the impact of clusters of growth industries such as IT around Cambridge and ...
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Property companies love shopping
Property companies have maintained their assault on the traditionally institutional domain of shopping centre investment, by accounting for 73% of the total transacted, says new research. Despite a drop in investment figures from £718.9m in the last quarter to £371m in the second quarter of 1999, the DTZ ...
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Parking limits un-green claim
Restraining car parking in locations poorly served by public transport will undermine working practices and technologies likely to reduce traffic congestion, a leading property manager has warned. Ashley Dabson , Compaq UK & Ireland property manager, told the Futures in Management Property and Facility conference in London that flexible working ...
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Lawyers shuffle City deck
Law firms Dibb Lupton Alsop and Freshfields are close to completing two complex deals in the City to take more space, because of the dearth of new supply in the market. Dibb Lupton Alsop is understood to have placed Royal London s 10,220 sq m (110,000 sq ...
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Cities on the road to nowhere
It s not often you hear agents talking down their local market. But however you look at this week s survey, it s hard to escape the conclusion that the West Midlands property market is doing pretty well. Whether it s the extraordinary range of leisure schemes planned (p38), ...
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PillarCaisse lures retail kings to Castle Quay
All the national multiples that have left Banbury s prime pitch to take space in the extension to the town s Castle Quay scheme can easily be replaced by other retailers, according to Graham Handley, chief executive of Cherwell District Council. Handley was speaking at the handover ceremony ...
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New town demanded for Cambridgeshire
Radical proposals for a new town and increased housing allocations in Cambridgeshire were floated this week, following the first inquiry into draft regional planning guidance. Inspectors at the public inquiry have recommended a 14% increase in the number of new homes to be built in Cambridgeshire between 1995 and 2016. ...
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JLL severs link to JLW California
Jones Lang Lasalle has sold regional American arm JLW California to US broker Kennedy-Wilson. The California office, which has around 653,320 sq m (7m sq ft) of office and industrial properties under management, was sold for an undisclosed figure. The takeover enlarges Kennedy-Wilson s management portfolio to ...
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The grand new Duke of Yorks: Cadogan goes marching in
The Cadogan Estate launched proposals this week to redevelop the Duke of York s headquarters site in Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW3. The scheme will total 12,450 sq m (134,000 sq ft) comprising 34 shop units and kiosks, 26 flats available on affordable rents, a museum or gallery and ...
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Buyers are in love with Shakespeare's theatre
Views of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre at Bankside, London SE1, helped Berkeley Homes to sell 68 of the 71 flats at its Benbow House scheme almost as soon as they came to the market last month. After last weekend, only three penthouses, where prices begin at £1.75m, were left. Most flats ...
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C&R set to buy Epsom shopping centre
The shopping centre investment market is set to undergo a period of frenetic activity with £1.7bn of deals about to change hands. Capital & Regional is rumoured to be the prospective buyer of Standard Life 's Ashley shopping centre in Epsom. Following best bids last week, ...
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Give my regards to Broad Street
Fun-loving Brummies are in for the time of their lives over the next two years, but could too much of a good thing spoil the party for the investors?
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Pollution time bomb
Later this year landowners and occupiers will face new liabilities for land contamination,as the government makes sure the polluter pays.
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Consent for Bishopsbridge
Regalian and NFc are now in a position to sell their Paddington Goods Yard site in London after winning detailed planning consent this week. The 157,933 sq m (1.7m sq ft) development will include offices, residential, industrial, retail and restaurants. It is one of two schemes in the ...
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Birmingham offices
Office agents have a great deal to talk about over a cold beer this summer car parking, office supply, alternative uses and, of course, the state of English cricket! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott plans to tax workers for office parking spaces across the country. There is a ...
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