PROPERTY NEWS August 19, 2010 LUXURY DEVELOPMENT ON FINCHLEY ROAD A slice of leafy North-West London has just become more accessible with the unveiling of West Heath Place, a collection of 48 apartments, including penthouses and a cottage on the Golders Green end of the Finchley Road. Flats from £795,000. For more info call Glentree Estates on 0208 201 8780 [...]
Defenders hold the key in Monday night battle August 19, 2010 MANCHESTER CITY VS LIVERPOOL MONDAY – 8.00PM SKY SPORTS MANCHESTER City would have counted themselves slightly fortunate to have escaped from White Hart Lane with a point on Saturday. Joe Hart produced a brilliant performance, particularly in the first half, while the defence looked fairly solid throughout. It will take a while for their attacking [...]
Blackpool buck the spending trend as agents rake in record £12.7m in fees August 18, 2010 BLACKPOOL are living proof that big money payments to agents don’t necessary bring success. Ian Holloway’s (right) men sealed a shock promotion to the Premier League last May after beating Cardiff in the Championship play-off final. But new figures released by the Football League yesterday showed the Seasiders achieved it with their house well and [...]
Stagecoach is on track as rail improves August 18, 2010 STAGECOACH yesterday reported a rise in sales at its British and US transport businesses, with its rail operations performing strongly. Stagecoach, operator of the South West Trains franchise in Britain and which last year failed in an attempt to buy rival National Express, said in a statement it had significant undrawn bank facilities. The company’s [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 15, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES PATERNOSTER IS PUT UP FOR SALE Paternoster, the specialist pensions business set up by former Prudential executive Mark Wood, has been put up for sale, with its original backers facing the potential loss of more than half their £500m equity investment. The majority of its backers are seeking an exit from a company [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK August 15, 2010 WEST London gastro pub Paradise By Way of Kensal Green is clearly onto a winner with its new ruse – a private karaoke room for well-oiled customers to sing their hearts out. This group ended up hogging the room for the whole night, paying a hefty £600 for the privilege. They fortified themselves for the [...]
London clubs set for boom season August 12, 2010 LAST year was a boom year for Premier League fortunes in the capital – and I expect this season to be even more successful in some ways. It may be unlikely that we get more than three London clubs finishing in the top four, as we did in May with Chelsea joined by Arsenal and [...]
GOING OUT August 12, 2010 August is the quietest month for clubs and so openings are thin on the ground in the West End. Last week however saw the launch of one of the biggest new venues in London (yes, Camden is in London) with a distinctly African theme. Shaka Zulu (www.ahaka-zulu.com) is Stables Market’s new destination restaurant, nightclub and [...]
Quintain JV sells offices at Pier Walk August 9, 2010 REAL estate investor Quintain has sold its Pier Walk development near Canary Wharf to DekaBank, Germany’s largest open-ended fund manager, for £97.1m. Quintain, which owned the seven-story building at Greenwich Peninsula in a joint venture with Bovis Lend Lease, said the sale represents a six per cent uplift on the property’s valuation in March and [...]
Panic over a new global food crisis is over-egged August 9, 2010 TRADERS have been watching wheat markets breathlessly over the past few days as the grain bounced up and then down. Having gained 8.08 per cent last Thursday – up 80 per cent on prices in the middle of June – the grain plummeted on Friday, wiping out much of Thursday’s gain to end the day [...]