All articles by Simon Creasey – Page 4
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Markets
Croydon offices: Home alone
The Home Office dominates Croydon's office market, but with it comes queues of asylum seekers. Is this the image the town wants to project?
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MarketsShell Haven: Haven can wait
The inquiry into P&O's plans for Shell Haven in Essex is expected to last more than four months. We were on site as the battle got under way
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MarketsReading faces up to the realities of oversupply
With millions of square feet returning to the market in the Thames Valley, landlords and corporate occupiers are resorting to incentives and rent-slashing to entice tenants.
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MarketsHerts misses a beat in the property cycle
The market is awash with speculatively built space, so it is a bad time to be looking for good tenants.
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MarketsThe lifecycle of a leaseback
With retailers keen to focus on their core business and take advantage of investor appetite for property, sale-and-leaseback deals are on the increase.
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MarketsLeisure: The fizz kid
Champagne heir Amaury Taittinger has added some sparkle to Liverpool with his casino and hotel concepts. Now he's looking to expand his operations.
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MarketsCapital of culture: Mersey heat
Dubbed 'Livercool' in this month's Tatler, the Merseyside city hopes to capitalise on its regeneration efforts in its bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.
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MarketsAction packed
The Shambles, the Triangle and the Trafford Centre are leading the way in a spate of north-west retail activity.
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MarketsRegeneration: Wakefield wakes up
While nearby cities like Leeds are hampered by high rents and space shortages, cheaper Wakefield's excellent road links and top-drawer accommodation could make it the next place to be.
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MarketsProfile: Leeds' first lady
Jan Fletcher, gourmet chip shop owner and former Yorkshire Woman of the Year, has been accumulating land around Leeds city centre for 20 years. We discover what she plans to do with it
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Markets
Offices: Down town
Everyone will be hoping for an upturn in 2003 – last year was one of the worst in a while for the Leeds office market.
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MarketsSorry, no change
Shoppers in Leeds have been looking forward to the overhaul of the Trinity Arcade. Two years later they're still waiting and the city's retail future remains uncertain.
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Thames regeneration opens Gateway to opportunity
Billions of pounds of investment are flooding into an area the size of Tokyo stretching from the CIty of London to Thurrock on Essex and Dartford in Kent.
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MarketsFormer Royal investors help keep property REAL
Three property investment experts from Royal & SunAlliance have set up a consultancy to advise investors on how to make the most of their assets.
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Small firms have growing property problems
More small and medium-sized enterprises have difficulties finding suitable premises with space for expansion and with inflexible lease terms.
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MarketsChatham Maritime is a talking point in Kent
The South East of England Development Agency's regeneration of the former derelict naval yard is one of the area's biggest success stories.
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Welsh lettings boom leads to office stock shortage
With average office take-up in Cardiff reaching almost 600,000 sq ft, the market in south Wales is feeling the squeeze and rents are on the up.
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MarketsBig City firms make contingencies in Kent
City-based companies are turning to Kent for disaster recovery space and as an economical home for back-office functions.
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MarketsRegeneration: Arsenal's perfect pitch
The double-winners seem to have it all, but they want more: 27 acres of prime development and a new 60,000-seat stadium.
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MarketsIndustrial: Out of site
Warrington's transport links and location make it ideal for large distribution sheds, but this is useless when development sites are nowhere to be seen. The town has missed out in the past and more problems are on the horizon.
