All articles by Heather Greig-Smith – Page 7
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MarketsNot yet REIT for conversion
The sector needs to expand and ‘professionalise’ before real estate investment trust conversion can be considered.
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Basic instinct
The market for serviced office space is growing confidently, but more and more companies are going down the no-frills road.
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NewsFrogmore JV buys Barclay brothers Manchester site
Frogmore Northern acquires 280,000 sq ft Universal House in city centre
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InsightThe early developers
Drivers Jonas takes pupils on a tour of the property industry and makes them developers for a day.
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Markets
The market in minutes
Heather Greig-Smith gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region
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MarketsThe four Asketeers
Manchester-based Ask has handed four young developers the responsibility of bringing forward £1bn of north-west schemes. Heather Greig-Smith meets the team.
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MarketsAnything you can do...
...Erinaceous plans to do better, by using the acquisition of Manchester-based Dunlop Heywood Lorenz to help it create a one-stop shop for property services.
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MarketsAll change at Piccadilly
A partnership between developers and the public sector is transforming central Manchester’s once grimy Piccadilly area into a chic, modern office location.
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LSH wins bid to manage Manchester airport portfolio
Lambert Smith Hampton beats CB Richard Ellis to manage non-core property estate
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MarketsStealing the limelight
Liverpool’s Lime Street station will be welcoming visitors to the European Capital of Culture in 2008. But before then it needs extensive redevelopment.
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InsightReal estate roulette
Foreign investors have to gamble on Brazil’s currency, the real, and finance schemes with an array of imaginative funding structures.
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MarketsLiving on the Edge
Mixed-use development is vital to Liverpool’s success as European Capital of Culture. Property Week profiles two teams working towards 2008. Photograph by Anthony Lycette
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MarketsComing off benefits
Can Liverpool’s renaissance continue without Stamp Duty exemption and European Union Objective 1 grants?
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MarketsSister act
Sisters Wendy and Jennifer Dixon are at the forefront of Liverpool’s Ropewalks area regeneration programme. Photograph by Dominik Gigler
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InsightFrom Moscow to Mayfair
Regeneration need not be confined to northern inner cities. A young Russian tycoon is hoping to bring socially responsible development to one of London’s richest locations
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InsightStrike it lucky
The government’s gambling bill has limited the number of supercasinos in the UK to just eight, and cities in the north-west are hoping to hit the jackpot.
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InsightLate developer
After almost a decade, work has finally started on Kingsway Business Park, a £315m scheme on the M62 near Manchester.
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InsightHere comes the fund
The Agora Shopping Centres Fund is polishing up its prize assets in the north-west.
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InsightA tale of two brothers
Brothers Mohammed Ishtiaq and Mohammed Afaq run development and architecture firms from Manchester.
