All articles by Georgie Hobbs.
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Exhibition Road plans secure final £18.8m funding package
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council have today announced that they have secured £18.8m of funding for the Exhibition Road development plans.
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SFO steps up its investigation of £56m property fraud
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and City of London Police are investigating an alleged fraud on Allied Irish Banks‘(AIB) corporate banking department.
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OnlineJJB opts for CVA and sells Fitness Clubs for £83.4m
Beleaguered high street retailer JJB is to enter into company voluntary arrangements (CVA) with around 140 landlords over its closed stores.
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BPF says landlords and retail leaders must work together
The British Property Federation (BPF) has called on retail leaders to work with landlords to beat the recession.
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Macclesfield resi scheme gets green light
Bluemantle, a Cheshire-based property investment and development company, has won planning permission for a 13-acre residential-led mixed use development in Disley near Macclesfield.
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Network Rail searches for new commercial property chief
Network Rail is looking for a new director for commercial property after Mick Martin’s promotion to director for track asset management.
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2016 zero carbon targets not realistic, RICS warns Government
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said it is ‘not realistic’ to achieve zero carbon by 2016.
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Plans submitted for affordable eco-housing development in Kent
The government-funded Brownfield Land Assembly Company has submitted plans to turn a former tyre yard in Sittingbourne, Kent into eight new affordable eco-homes.
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OnlineHousing association sector exceeds landmark £10 bn turnover
Turnover in the housing association sector exceeded £10 bn for the first time in 2008, according to the Tenant Services Authority.
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OnlineTravelodge expands to the tune of £77m
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has exchanged on 12 new hotels at a combined investment value of £77m.
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OnlineAsda buys council offices in regeneration plan
Asda has bought Telford and Wrekin Council’s civic offices as part of a regeneration programme for the town centre.
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OnlineMIPIM 2009: Plans for Western Europe’s tallest mixed use towers in Paris unveiled
Developer Hermitage Group, working with EPAD, the public sector body responsible for development at La Défense in Paris, are planning to build a new 24-hour urban community housing Western Europe’s tallest mixed-use towers to the east of La Défense.
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Mishcon De Reya property partner appointed honorary Queen’s councel
Philip Freedman CBE, property development lawyer and partner at Mishcon de Reya, has been appointed be the Queen’s Counsel honoris causa.
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MIPIM 2009: Birmingham calls for inward investment
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby is to call on investors and banks at MIPIM to fund his £20bn ‘Big City Plan’.
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OnlineAsda reacts with ‘disappointment’ to competition test result
Budget supermarket Asda has said it is ‘obviously disappointed’ that the Competition Appeal Tribunal has upheld Tesco's challenge to the two-year competition test on ‘technical grounds’.
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OnlineRow breaks out over London’s affordable housing package
Housing minister, Margaret Beckett has labelled the new £135m housing package by the Homes and Communities Agency and London Mayor as ‘chaotic’.
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OnlineInterest rates cut by 0.5%
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to half and begun the process of pumping billions of pounds into Britain's economy.
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OnlineArsenal’s Queensland Road plans get go-ahead
Islington Council has approved the final element of Arsenal Football Club’s masterplan to regenerate the wide area around the premiership club’s Emirates Stadium.
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St. Modwen nets two tenants in Worcester
St. Modwen has completed two deals totalling 17,637 sq ft at its 23-acre Great Western Business Park in Worcester.
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OnlineHouse prices drop 2.3% in Halifax housing index
House prices dropped by 2.3% in February and were 17.7% lower on an annual basis, according to the Halifax monthly housing index.
