All articles by Tim Danaher – Page 12
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Insight
Death of the salesmen?
Goldman Sachs new initiative to connect property buyers and sellers online is only the first in a new wave of threats to the profession.
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News
Pound forces Germans to quit London
Savills to sell £250m DEGI portfolio and DGI halts UK investment
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News
Soros opts for property to hedge hi-tech losses
Soros Real Estate Partners could benefit from strategic rethink as billionaire turns bear
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Insight
Public Sector
The public sector has been quickest to recognise the potential benefits of corporate outsourcing. Last week, the BBC became the latest public body to throw its hat into the PFI ring when it launched a tender process to redevelop its £430m property portfolio. The corporation plans to slash its property ...
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Insight
Please re-lease me
I would be astounded to hear of any major corporate in five years time having significant direct interests in property, says Oliver Jones, Citex s chief executive. Viewing the aggressive way outsourcing specialists such as Citex, Trillium, Servus and Mapeley are actively marketing themselves to companies in ...
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News
Gap to double UK size with record distribution deal
Gap could double its UK outlets in the next five years, having just signed the market s largest-ever distribution deal at Grosvenor and Wilson Bowden s Coton Park. The fashion retail giant will occupy 120,770 sq m (1.3m sq ft) of distribution space at the Rugby site, a facility ...
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Shurgard to mount assault on UK market
US REIT Shurgard is planning an assault on the UK self-storage market. Shurgard, which has 380 centres in the US and is the second-largest self-storage operator in Europe, intends to open between 50 and 60 centres in the UK in the next three to four years. Shurgard is a ...
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News
Goldman Sachs internet shock
Global US investment bank cuts out agents in revolutionary plan to trade properties over the web
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News
King’s Cross scheme to join Brindleyplace in Argent fund
Argent s £350m partnership could be extended to incorporate landmark £1.5bn north London regeneration project
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JLL to mastermind HSBC’s City exodus
Army of firms called in to help co-ordinate bank s relocation to Docklands by 2002
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Standard Chartered kicks off global property review
Advisers appointed for global lease and management audit of banking giant s 2,000-strong worldwide portfolio
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News
Pru to reduce Thames Valley exposure to minimise risks
The Prudential intends to reduce its exposure in the Thames Valley office market in a move that could see it set up a £1bn limited partnership. A week after the UK s largest insurance firm agreed terms with Cisco Systems to occupy its GreenPark scheme, it is already planning ...
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Grosvenor branches out with two new joint ventures
Grosvenor joins forces with Wilson Bowden to re-enter industrial sector and signs alliance with Pidemco Land
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Prescott pickles ‘erotic gherkin’ with EIA demand
Deputy prime minister s decision on Swiss Re s City headquarters sets precedent for lengthy planning delays
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Safeland creates on-line property trading venture
Quoted property company joins e-commerce frenzy with free internet commercial property listing
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Ballymore chops 12 floors off Millharbour tower plans
Ballymore has lopped 12 storeys off its proposed tower in London s Docklands to comply with Tower Hamlets planners vision of the Millennium Quarter. Ballymore submitted a revised planning application for its landmark 1 Millharbour scheme last week so that it would fall within the 25-storey limit imposed by ...
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News
Rotch and UAE in £75m petrol plan
Alliance provides Tchenguiz brothers with new funds to fuel expansion plans
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News
£2bn race to beat duty rise
At least 20 deals squeeze through before Stamp Duty rise, including Green Property s £400m P&O portfolio acquisition
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Markets
Recovery play
Earlier this season Newcastle United were in trouble and it seemed everyone had an opinion on the club's inevitable demisse. But now things have changed, just as in Newcastle itself, which is experiencing an upturn in investment, development and success.
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News
Lawyers opt for Square Mile despite Canary Wharf drive
City beats off Canary Wharf in race to sign up space-hungry corporate law firms Withers and Freshfields
