All Property Week articles in 15 October 2010
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Finance guru calls for end of stamp duty
Finance expert Justin Urquhart Stewart has called on the Government to abolish stamp duty in order to get the housing market moving and says the treasury would reap more benefit from the additional VAT paid by homebuyers.
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Podcast 31: Finance guru Justin Urquhart Stewart calls for end of Stamp Duty
James Max is joined by BBC finance expert Justin Urquhart Stewart to look at the economy and personal finance issues and he is joined by Claire Wood of Firebox.com to look at what is hot in Christmas shopping this year.
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Podcast 30: CoStar reveals results of its London Inventory project and investors get a 'heads up' on what's hot
Hear what CoStar is doing through its London Inventory Project to calculate the true vacancy rate in the capital - also, Richard Hunter of Hargreaves Lansdown looks at where investors should target their efforts in the coming months and years.
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Geronimo opens first City pub at Broadgate
Geronimo Inns has opened its first pub in the Square Mile at British Land and Blackstone’s Broadgate Estate.
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LONDON LIVE: What are the prospects for London's suburbs? Ask our experts.
From 3:30pm today London Live’s final webinar of the day will take a closer look at London’s outer boroughs.
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Cushman poaches Asia-Pacific capital markets MD from DTZ
Cushman Wakefield has poached its new managing director for Asia Pacific capital markets from DTZ.
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Axa forward-funds Premier Inn in Stratford Upon Avon
Axa Insurance UK and AXA PPP Healthcare have agreed to forward-purchase a 130-bed Premier Inn Hotel in Stratford Upon Avon.
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City of London planning chief wins big at Offices 10
City of London chief planning officer Peter Rees was the big winner at Tuesday night’s Offices Awards.
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Knight Frank replaces JLL and BNPPRE on Leeds scheme
Knight Frank has been appointed to market 122,000 sq ft of office space in an IVG office scheme in Leeds.
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First Cadbury Cocoa House opens at Bluewater
The first Cadbury’s themed café opened at the Bluewater shopping centre this week, as sales at the centre continued to grow.
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Invista buys on Borough High Street
Invista Real Estate Investment Management has bought a property on Borough High Street in central London for £5.75m.
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Podcast 29: Mark Routledge of CBRE and Phil Tennant of Hamptons
In this episode our inimitable host James Max is joined by Hamptons International’s Phil Tennant to talk about iPad apps and what is happening to the housing market.
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Spending Review: warning over CRC "stealth tax"
Government plans to overhaul the Carbon Reduction Commitment will turn it into a stealth tax, sustainability experts have warned.
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Spending Review: Public sector cuts could lead to "dire situation" for private rented sector
Lenders and fund managers today warned of rising residential rents and repossessions as a result of the public sector cuts in the coalition’s comprehensive spending review.
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Osborne confirms London and Bristol property vehicles
The government has today confirmed plans to introduce two property vehicles to own and manage its office estate, one in central London and one in Bristol.
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Spending Review: Chancellor adds £400m to Regional Growth Fund
The government will add £400m to the planned Regional Growth Fund designed to stimulate private sector projects, topping up the pot to £1.4bn over the next three years.
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Auction for injured servicemen goes live
The Coldstream Cup Online Auction , an online auction to raise money for the injured service men and bereaved service families, has gone live.
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Spending Review: Osborne confirms new council spending powers
Chancellor George Osborne today said that the government would implement “massive devolution of financial control” to local authorities, including the tax increment financing (TIF) model for funding infrastructure.
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Spending Review: asset sales among £6bn back-office cuts
Asset sales and property savings are among £6n of planned cuts to administrative budgets, announced today by chancellor George Osborne.