Business news for Fri, 28 Mar 2008 & with word property. 14 news.

Robert Tchenguiz, the property entrepreneur facing heavy losses on stakes in retailer J Sainsbury and pub group Mitchells & Butlers, accusing the boards of both companies of failing to maximise shareholder value from their property assets

Vincent Tchenguiz, the property entrepreneur, is seeing parallels between the markets now and the recession in the early 1990s, when his property holdings were almost wiped out by the fall in asset values

CAVE CREEK - Cave Creek built a water storage tank partly on land it doesn't own and now plans to buy the property for $1.2 million.

The corporate activist has been building its shareholding in Shaftesbury and analysts are expecting management of the property specialist to face pressure to improve its share price

The news from the UK's property market has not improved but Neil Hume explains why housebuilders were among the best performing stocks in London this week

Buying insurance is a critical part of being in business for a small company, but it's often either overlooked or given short shrift.

The bursting of Spain's property bubble means a real estate tycoon's ambition to build a Manhattan in La Mancha looks like a Quixotic dream

The Guernsey-based property investment and outsourcing company, has ended talks about a possible deal with its majority shareholder, US hedge fund Fortress, about taking it private

New provincial money intended to build new roads and bridges will be used to fill a hole in the City of Ottawa's budget, keeping next year's property tax hike at 4.9 per cent as originally planned, city council has decided.

"Has anyone out there," asked an SFGate reader, "heard anybody say anything nice about Larry?" Not so much, at least on SFGate in the wake of The Chronicle's story Thursday on the multibillionaire's $3 million property tax break on his now "functionally...

Hermes Real Estate has pulled all sales of indirect assets as it struggles to find appetite among investors in a difficult property investment market. The fund manager...

Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz placed his Laurel pubs and restaurants business into administration yesterday - then immediately bought back the bulk of the estate from the administrator.

Heather Capital, a hedge fund run by Scottish millionaire Gregory King, is to launch a ?1bn fund targeting distressed property sellers.

Songbird Estates, the partially listed property company that owns 61pc of Canary Wharf Group, said it "was looking very closely" at a couple of assets outside its London Docklands heartland despite profits being hit by the collapse in commercial property values.