Lucy Benyon
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Industrial evolution
The industrial market has seen increasing requirements for client-focused, short-term leases from new media and international occupiers. What are the implications for developers, agents, funds and surveyors?
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Self-preservation society
Self-storage has never been sexy. But serious operators are hoping to shake off the sector's tarnished image and attract blue-chip investment with their high-spec, good-quality operations.
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Cowboys under fire in RICS rating campaign
The RICS will today distribute 150,000 warning letters to trade associations and business groups nationally in a joint initiative with the DETR, the Valuation Office, the ISVA and the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation.
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University challenge
Yesterday, thousands of students across the country discovered the truth about their A level results. But few of those with the best results are likely to go into property. We ask whether the latest report from the RICS education task force can reverse the dumbing-down of property
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Grand central
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are now the leading destinations for developers wanting exposure to emerging European markets. In the concluding part of our series, the property market in these nations are examined
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Wilkinson gears up for Southern assault
The Worksop-based company has signed up to take 69,680 sq m (750,000 sq ft) in Newport after discounting a rival option in Hertfordshire – believed to be City & St James Developments’ Waltham Cross scheme.
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Electrolux’s clean start means twice the space
The electrical goods manufacturer is now searching for 5,580 sq m (600,000 sq ft) – half to replace the destroyed facility and the rest for a longer-term requirement for a rail-linked centre.
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Hammer it home
Jones Lang LaSalle's auctioneers take to the rostrum just six times a year. What do they get up to the rest of the time? We spent a day in JLL's auctions department to find out.
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Team spirit
If you're looking for a way to improve communications between you and your clients, teaming could be the management approach for your small firm.
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Niche work if you can get it
A steady stream of surveyors have ditched their pinstripes and become their own bosses. We investigate the trend and talk to three agents who have taken the plunge.
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The Parkridge family
Leisure and retail development may be slowing down, but Parkridge Developments – an offshoot of industrial developer Kingspark – is hoping to buck the market. And with Cine UK and Holiday Inn signed up to its schemes, it looks like the group is firmly on track.
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Playing with the big boys
Should smaller surveying firms continue to give free advice to national companies? This report examines how trading information can become a one-way street
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No more mister niche guy
Property company Miller Developments is shedding its reputation as a niche Scottish developer. Lucy Benyon reports on the company’s recent forays across the border
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Cutbacks and falling morale cripple VOA
Witnesses told a Treasury sub-committee last week that the agency’s five-year cost-cutting Next Steps review had a severe impact on the quality of service provided by the office.
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Let the investment begin
The buy-to-let sector is booming and the property sector has responded by setting up services to advise on, manage and even acquire properties for investors. This report looks at a sector that is shedding its Cinderella image
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Waiting on rating
Three years ago, the Bayliss Report proposed one of the most radical shake-ups of rating practice in decades. Yet with the 2000 rating revaluation just around the corner, measures to streamline the system are still not in place. In the run-up to revaluation, Property Week will monitor the progress of ...
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Child's play
The Government's pledge to provide 190,000 nursery spaces by 2002 could lead to 'explosive' growth in childcare. Jigsaw's Mike Hirsch tells us how property investors are keen for a piece of the action
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Rover takes Caterpillar site over Magna Park
The car manufacturer has spent the last nine months trying to find a site for a 213,675 sq m (2.3m sq ft) international distribution centre and was heavily tipped to go to Gazeley Properties’ Magna Park at Lutterworth.
