Estates Gazette 1315 – 13 April 2013

Estates Gazette 1315 – 13 April 2013   Editor’s comment5 Editor’s comment   News29 Oaktree plants £300m acorn29 Lend Lease has a view to early sales30 Berkeley reprints Wapping plans30 Pidgley bids for a bigger slice of Docklands30 Hilco tunes up HMV rent reductions30 Deals31 Jones to cash in on deal of downturn31 House of Hackney furnishes record rent for Shoreditch HQ31 Mitsui banks on Nomura House31 Saatchi & Saatchi books into British Land’s Regent’s Place32 £100m Shaftesbury Avenue asset in play32 Canada Life parks £20m in Grand Central32 Firms rush to beat Thames Valley shortages32 Top stories from EGi33 Ping An signals start of Chinese invasion with £260m Lloyd’s offer33 Westfield plans are child’s play33 Cains brews £50m leisure conversion33 Monumental Skanska build moves closer34 Margaret Thatcher: ‘Property’s greatest friend’36 Going into battle against the VOA   Finance39 Rockspring sees opportunity39 L&G to double UK real estates investment39 Dublin job for former Barings Bank rogue Nick Leeson40 Analysis: HBOS – an accident waiting to happen41 How personal agendas damage the common good – and UK plc44 Residential: SIPPs unlikely to slake thirst for new homes45 Residential: Housing sector’s recovery is under way, but talk of a boom is too soon   Auction news43 London resi outstrips private treaty at Allsop43 March top performers   Comment46 Investment is needed to insulate old stock against energy efficiency’s chill46 The Rt Hon John Gummer on Baroness Thatcher48 Letters: your view48 Peter Bill: Propco execs double their remuneration   In depth50 Can good office design raise rents?   Interview54 Happily ever after: Linda Morey Smith   Focus: Finance59 CMBS: food for thought62 Debt funds: lost in the fanfare66 Show me the money69 Budget 2013: what does it mean for you?   Focus: London75 Banking sector dominates the City 80 Refurbishment: redevelopment rethink84 Public sector: running on empty88 Retail: wealth leads to health on London’s high streets92 King of the (financial) castle95 The last word: figuring out the facts   Practice and law96 Squats go to work99 Dispensation clarified100 Landed estates revisited102 View from the bar: an unfair measure103 Remote expectations104 Parshall v Hackney105 R (on the application of Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council and another/i>106 Dacorum Borough Council v Sims   EG Life111 Careers: that’s entertainment113 How to… optimise return on investment114 Events122 Diary   Estates Gazette 1314 – 6 April 2013 Estates Gazette 1313 – 30 March 2013 Estates Gazette 1312 – 23 March 2013 Estates Gazette 1311 – 16 March 2013 Estates Gazette 1310 – 9 March 2013 Estates Gazette 1309 – 2 March 2013 Estates Gazette 1308 – 23 February 2013 Estates Gazette 1307 – 16 February 2013 Estates Gazette 1306 – 9 February 2013 Estates Gazette 1305 – 2 February 2013 Estates Gazette 1304 – 26 January 2013 Estates Gazette 1303 – 19 January 2013 Estates Gazette 1302 – 12 January 2013 Estates Gazette 1301 – 5 January 2013 Estates Gazette 1250 – 15 December 2012 Estates Gazette 1249 – 8 December 2012 Estates Gazette 1248 – 1 December 2012 Estates Gazette 1247 – 24 November 2012 Estates Gazette 1246 – 17 November 2012 Estates Gazette 1245 – 10 November 2012 Estates Gazette 1244 – 3 November 2012 Estates Gazette 1243 – 27 October 2012 Estates Gazette 1242 – 20 October 2012 Estates Gazette 1241 – 13 October 2012 Estates Gazette 1240 – 6 October 2012 Estates Gazette 1239 – 29 September 2012 Estates Gazette 1238 – 22 September 2012 Estates Gazette 1237 – 15 September 2012 Estates Gazette 1236 – 8 September 2012 Estates Gazette 1235 – 1 September 2012 Estates Gazette 1234 – 25 August 2012 Estates Gazette 1233 – 18 August 2012 Estates Gazette 1232 – 11 August 2012 Estates Gazette 1231 – 4 August 2012 Estates Gazette 1230 – 28 July 2012 Estates Gazette 1229 – 21 July 2012 Estates Gazette 1228 – 14 July 2012 Estates Gazette 1227 – 7 July 2012 Estates Gazette 1226 – 30 June 2012 Estates Gazette 1225 – 23 June 2012 Estates Gazette 1224 – 16 June 2012 Estates Gazette 1223 – 9 June 2012 Estates Gazette 1222 – 2 June 2012 Estates Gazette 1221 – 26 May 2012 Estates Gazette 1220 – 19 May 2012 Estates Gazette 1219 – 12 May 2012 Estates Gazette 1218 – 5 May 2012 Estates Gazette 1217 – 28 April 2012 Estates Gazette 1216 – 21 April 2012 Estates Gazette 1215 – 14 April 2012 Estates Gazette 1214 – 7 April 2012 Estates Gazette 1213 – 31 March 2012 Estates Gazette 1212 – 24 March 2012 Estates Gazette 1211 – 17 March 2012 Estates Gazette 1210 – 10 March 2012 Estates Gazette 1209 – 3 March 2012