All articles by Heather Greig-Smith – Page 5
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Markets
Lucky breaks
A team of investors is feeding the demand for small, refurbished industrial space in Plymouth by breaking up the big sheds that no longer find occupiers.
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News
Argent tunes up giant Manchester scheme
Former fire station in city centre to be redeveloped into leisure complex
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InsightThe man who wants to buy Stanhope
David Camp is negotiating a deal with property legend Sir Stuart Lipton to buy the developer he built up.
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MarketsBulging retail pipeline fuels concern over development
More than 10m sq ft coming on stream in 2007/08 could struggle to find tenants
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MarketsA hard task master
Architect Lord Rogers has produced a more balanced analysis of government regeneration policy than initial reports suggested.
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NewsMiliband: no ‘Stalinist’ Thames Gateway
Minister defies Lord Rogers’ reconvened Urban Task Force
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MarketsInvestment partnership focuses on city’s relocation potential
Invest Milton Keynes woos owner-occupiers as city rises to Prescott plan.
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MarketsUrban Splash chief to chair Centre for Cities think tank
Tom Bloxham teams up with former lad mag editor James Brown on policy forum
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MarketsKent Science Park creates more room for bioscience start-ups
Kent Science Park has announced plans to improve its facilities for small occupiers and start-up businesses. The park is to create space for more than 40 small businesses in a so-called Bio-Accelerator, a plan that aims to bring jobs to the area and strengthen Kent’s science cluster. Swale Borough Council ...
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Markets
Barratt plans reorganisation in ‘challenging’ market
Housebuilder Barratt has announced that it is to reorganise its executive structure in a bid to deliver future growth and allow the board to focus on long-term objectives.
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Markets
Stay one step ahead of the break clause
Break clauses sound like a simple concept, but lawyers say they are a ‘legal minefield’ for occupiers. There are numerous ways in which a landlord can hang on to an inexperienced and unprepared tenant. This month the Financial Times won a dispute with its landlord over the break clause in ...
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Markets
LandSecs takes control of Maidstone’s Fremlin
Forward purchase pays off as Centros Miller hands over shopping centre
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MarketsResi tower to lift £100m Liverpool scheme
Paul Bolton and Mark Connor’s Vermont Developments applies for planning
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Online
Resi tower to lift £100m Liverpool scheme
Vermont Developments this week submitted a planning application for a £100m mixed-use scheme in Liverpool.
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MarketsThe market in minutes
Heather Greig-Smith gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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MarketsAsk to sell individual offices in Manchester
Developer launches concept to sell rather than lease city centre offices
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MarketsThe ascent of Man
Step out of your office in Douglas and the ocean is a stone’s throw away. The smell of salt and seaweed hangs in the air and, as it gets dark, fairy lights twinkle all year round on the promenade. The Isle of Man’s capital feels far from the rat race ...
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News
Grimley and Dunlop Haywards seal northern takeovers
Agency big guns acquire small firms in Newcastle and Yorkshire
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InsightThe screen test
Plasma television screens have come to symbolise property advisers’ new offices. Over the next six pages, Heather Greig-Smith sees whether their exodus from Hanover Square has been a success (p36-37), and looks at the plans of the next wave of firms to relocate (p38-39). Photographs by Gautier Deblonde
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NewsKen: protect planners from developers
London mayor says planners are ill-equipped against property ‘bastards’
