All articles by Robert Sharp – Page 2

  • Colour scheme: Greenford Park off the A40
    Markets

    Local knowledge

    26 November 2004

    Essential information, project updates and gossip.

  • Going up: the Anglo Business Park in Aylesbury
    Insight

    Small industrial occupiers thrive on pure speculation

    Property Direct November 2004

    Chesham and Aylesbury are benefiting from an upsurge of speculative development in the industrial sector.

  • Insight

    Not everything in the garden of England is rosy

    Property Direct November 2004

    Inward investment agency Locate in Kent reports decreasing levels of demand from office and industrial occupiers.

  • Shop options: SIPP investors will be able to buy commercial property with flats above
    Insight

    A step-by-step guide to buying property for your pension

    Property Direct November 2004

    From April 2006, residential as well as commercial property can be bought with self-invested personal pensions. Here, Robert Sharp gives you the lowdown on when, what and how to buy

  • The sharp end: workers in the Gillette factory shortly after it opened
    Markets

    The best a plan can get

    26 November 2004

    One of west London’s most distinctive buildings is set to change hands as Gillette moves its operations to Poland.

  • BID goodbye to graffiti: one of the services occupiers could pay for
    Insight

    BIDs: benefit or burden for small business occupiers?

    Property Direct November 2004

    Kingston upon Thames has voted for a business improvement district and London’s Piccadilly may follow suit next week. What will that mean for the areas’ small business occupiers?

  • RAF Northolt. Nearly 1m sq ft of buildings including accommodation for 1,750 staff
    Markets

    Airfields of vision

    26 November 2004

    A government review of its property holdings could mean up to 346 acres of Ministry of Defence land is made available for redevelopment.

  • Insight

    Property at war

    19 November 2004

    Robert Sharp investigates how the property industry, from the Duke of Westminster down, is caught up in the conflict in Iraq

  • Lighting up: Trinny and Susannah will switch on the Bond Street lights
    Markets

    Local knowledge

    05 November 2004

    Essential information, project updates and gossip

  • Burning issues: Derwent Valley's proposed redevelopment of the fire-damaged Telstar House
    Markets

    Paddington’s home run

    05 November 2004

    Developers in Paddington are looking to capitalise on the government’s drive for more housing, but residential is not the only game in town.

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    Markets

    Hanover's handover

    05 November 2004

    Agents have been moving out of Hanover Square, and Mayfair is playing host to a slew of new development. But could Crossrail put a spanner in the works?

  • It's a mini adventure: Apple's stateside "mini stores" are the forerunners to its impending London store on Regent Street
    Markets

    Core business

    05 November 2004

    The Crown Estate hopes to update Regent Street’s staid image by luring computer manufacturer Apple to open its first UK store

  • Laboratory experiment: Cambridge's joint venture will team it with a private developer
    Markets

    Student union

    22 October 2004

    Cambridge University is set to sign a unique joint venture with a private developer to build commercial space on university land.

  • Sunnier horizon: given the pensions crisis, investors have more choice in where to invest through SIPPs
    Markets

    SIPPing pretty

    22 October 2004

    Ipswich SIPPs specialist Suffolk Life is planning to use its directors’ pensions to fund an office move and expansion

  • WinRo-win situation: the three plots will be worth £30m on completion
    Markets

    Spec it out

    22 October 2004

    Ipswich’s first speculative industrial build for 15 years is planned after the sale of the last plot of land at Ransomes Europark

  • Where it all began: Carter Jonas's original office in Cambridge is a world away from the cutting-edge schemes, such as St John's Innovation Centre and Granta Park, that it now works on
    Markets

    Past masters

    22 October 2004

    Cambridgeshire consultant Carter Jonas has grown from 19th-century rural land auctioneer into 21st-century science and technology specialist.

  • Markets

    Local knowledge

    22 October 2004

    Essential information, project updates and gossip.

  • Canadian club: the £50m redevelopment of the Vancouver Centre will double its size to 400,000 sq ft
    Markets

    A pair of King's

    22 October 2004

    Two retail schemes will transform King’s Lynn town centre and provide plenty of shops for the future residents of the fourth Millennium Community

  • Prime spot: new laws may release greenfield and brownfield land for development in Cambridgeshire
    Markets

    Housing benefit

    22 October 2004

    The establishment of a unique development body in Cambridgeshire could provide the key to solving the region’s housing shortage.

  • To Hull and back: the Northern Way envisages the port of Hull as the UK’s centre of freight shipping
    Markets

    Slow boats from China

    8 October 2004

    To cope with increased imports from the likes of China, the three northern RDAs want the Humber to become the UK’s main hub for shipping. But can it compete with ports in the south?