All Property Week articles in 13 March 2009
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APC Advice - Week 34: Supervisor and counsellor review (part 1 - explanation)
Jon Lever explains why you should knuckle down ahead of your final assessment interview, while Ben Elder tackles the environmental assessment competency
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Sellar’s Seal House recommended for approval
Sellar Property Group’s plans to redevelop Seal House near London Bridge have been recommended for approval by the City of London Corporation ahead of a meeting of the City’s planning and transportation committee meeting on Tuesday.
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Pidgley Jr puts his property company in liquidation
Cadenza, a property company run by Tony Pidgley Jr, the son of Berkeley Group founder Tony Pidgley, has gone into liquidation.
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OnlineFinancial regulation will not prevent house price booms, says HBF
The Home Builders’ Federation (HBF) today warned the government and the Financial Services Authority that regulation of the mortgage market was not a solution to the threat of future house price inflation.
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Online£180m Rathbone Market plans get approval from Thames Gateway
The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC) has given the green light to the £180m redevelopment of Rathbone Market in Canning Town, East London.
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OnlineGeoff Hoon tours Kent Thameside to explore Crossrail options
Transport secretary Geoff Hoon visited Kent Thameside yesterday to investigate the viability of Crossrail trains running through north Kent stations.
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Gravesend’s Clifton Wharf scheme receives planning consent
Down River Properties has won planning consent for Clifton Wharf, a riverfront development to the north-west of Gravesend Town Centre.
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Indian Builders target affordable homes
Indian real-estate companies, which a year ago were peddling luxury to the nation's growing middle class, are now trying to drive sales by pitching 'affordable' housing.
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HK government tenants slam rent rise
Angry tenants have accused the department responsible for managing government properties of setting above-market rental rates on a building in Pok Fu Lam by raising rents about 50%.
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S&P cuts ratings for seven Dubai developers
The knock-on effects from the global economic downturn led Standard & Poor’s, the global bond rating firm, to cut by one notch yesterday the credit ratings of Emaar Properties, the biggest developer in the country, and six other government-related companies, including the port operator Dubai World.
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Deyaar to hive off defaulters' properties
Deyaar Development, Dubai’s second-largest developer, will set up an asset fund for properties on which its customers have defaulted until conditions improve and they can be resold.
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US building sector rebounds
The US residential building sector showed renewed signs of life last month as falling construction costs prompted builders to break ground, offering a glimmer of hope that the real estate slump could be near its bottom.
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Geithner faces crucial toxic asset test
Tim Geithner, America’s beleaguered Treasury secretary, faces a critical test of his credibility when he unveils a much-anticipated plan to take toxic assets off bank balance sheets – in an announcement that could come within days.
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Libya eyes more property in west
Libya’s $70bn sovereign wealth fund is on the lookout for investments in western real estate markets, as Muammer Gaddafi’s regime flexes its financial muscle after emerging from its international isolation.
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Watchdog to order BAA break-up
The break-up of BAA’s monopoly ownership of the leading airports in London and Scotland will be ordered tomorrow by the Competition Commission in the most draconian corporate divestiture ever demanded by the watchdog.
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Morgan Sindall wins in Blackpool
The London-listed construction and regeneration group said that it had secured a £220m agreement to redevelop the north area of central Blackpool over the next decade.
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Cadenza in liquidation
The property company run by Tony Pidgley Jr, the property entrepreneur and son of Berkeley Group founder Tony Pidgley, has been put into voluntary liquidation.
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Derwent value down but interest up
The London-listed property group said that there had been a 22% decline in the value of its portfolio, but it hoped to take advantage of opportunities when the market recovered. It also announced the sale of its freehold interest in an office building next to Marylebone station, Central London, for ...
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'Gem of Tanzania' mystery deepens as experts doubt its existence
The mystery surrounding the “Gem of Tanzania” ruby deepened yesterday after industry experts said they had never heard of that particular stone, nor of a ruby worth that much.
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Councils attack business rate rise
Small companies in London are set to be hit with a business rates 'double whammy' that could force them to pay up to £500 extra tax.
