All articles by Tim Danaher – Page 13
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£100m float on cards for Rotch resi ground rents
Tchenguiz brothers swap feudal freeholds for opportunity to supply low-cost utilities
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Markets
Faulty towers
Facing stiff competition from financial centres such as Paris and New York, the Corporation of London is still struggling to encourage towers in the City.
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Tishman secures first UK redevelopment at City site
The tower-loving US developer, Tishman Speyer, has added to its UK development programme by snapping up the £200m Bowring site, next to the Tower of London. The New York-based company has beaten off strong competition from UK developers to build the UK headquarters for the world s largest insurance brokers ...
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Trinity wins battle for £25m Leeds council portfolio
Trinity College adds to property holdings following purchase of ground-rent portfolio with £1m income
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L&R raises £140m to gear up for outsourcing drive
London & Regional has sold more than £140m of properties to finance a big push into the growing corporate outsourcing market. The company, run by the Livingstone brothers Richard and Ian, this week agreed to offload a mixed portfolio to Marylebone Warwick Balfour for more than £70m. The ...
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Capital’s councils squeeze tower development plans
City of Westminster and Tower Hamlets forced to rethink tall buildings policies as number of proposed towers increases
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LandSec to offload £100m of offices in new reshuffle
UK s largest quoted property company set to rationalise London office portfolio with sale of 12 properties
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Developers to pounce as RBS offloads properties
Property companies wait in wings to take properties sold off after NatWest takeover
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Electrolux plans Prologis tie-up
Fridges-to-Flymo giant in talks over outsourcing European distribution network to US group
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Plans to move nightclub to world’s tallest building
Malory Clifford took a step closer to fulfilling his dream of erecting the world s tallest building in London after submitting a revised bid for a site in Southwark. The developer has offered private Irish property investor Holleybrook £10m for the Newington Causeway site, behind the Ministry of Sound nightclub. ...
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British Land ups the ante in Broadgate rent battle
Highest-ever letting at British Land s £2bn City estate reinforces Ritblat s rental growth claim
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LSH secures US links with Studley
Ex-diamond-cutter s consultancy offers growth potential for LSH and WS Atkins
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E-threat to call centre market
Software giant Oracle to close redundant Dublin facility after just two years as internet sales soar
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World’s tallest building planned for Southwark
Blackfriars Investments is searching for a south London site to develop a 100-storey tower
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Six in the frame for Foster’s £200m City tower revamp
An elite group of six property developers are competing for the chance to redevelop insurance broker J&H Marsh & McLennan s new City HQ at Bowring Tower. US firm Tishman Speyer, Greycoat , Development Securities , AXA SunLife and Stuart lipton s project management company Stanhope, as well as ...
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Rotch fuels £300m Shell revamp in new partnership
The Tchenguiz brothers Rotch Property Group has joined forces with London & Regional to buy 180 of Shell UK s service stations in a groundbreaking £300m sale and leaseback. Both parties have injected 50% of the equity into a new acquisitive vehicle called Octane, which ...
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New millennium home for Old Mutual
Old Mutual has placed Millennium Bridge House under offer in the largest City letting deal of the year. The South African insurance giant is expected to complete the deal on the office building at 1 High Timber Street early in the new year. Advised by Healey & Baker , ...
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Chase real estate guru quits in strategy ruckus
Cesar Chekijian, Chase Manhattan s corporate real estate boss, has left after a disagreement over the banking giant s global property strategy. A pioneering figure in the world of corporate real estate for 25 years, Chekijian ended his 17-year relationship with the US s second-largest bank after it introduced ...
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Midtown faces style challenge
London s Midtown is to become home to the UK s first style factory after a German property developer trumped MEPC last week to buy Victoria House for £40m. Hamburg-based Bernhard Garbe Group acquired the building runner-up for the mayor s office ...
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Lipton to mastermind Singaporean UK drive
Stuart lipton , head of Stanhope, is to advise a powerful Singaporean property company as part of its plan to roll out a £400m UK development drive. Pidemco Land, which is part-owned by the Singaporean government and has assets of around £2.7bn, plans to increase its exposure to ...
