All Property Week articles in 19 June 2009
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APC Advice - Week 48: Month 23/24 supervisor and counsellor review (part 3)
Jon Lever explains the final steps supervisors and counsellors can take to assist the candidate’s preparation, and Ben Elder talks about the competency on
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GVA Grimley: 'Scottish Town Centres: Still the Life and Soul?'
Throughout the early part of 2009 GVA Grimley has been undertaking independent research examining key market trends that are affecting Scotland’s town centres. This research has included a detailed survey of Scotland’s local planning authorities and town centre managers. It has also included the collation and analysis of retail floorspace ...
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Europa Capital buys Land Securities shopping centre
Europa Capital has bought Land Securities' Fremlin Walk shopping centre in Maidstone for around £70m, reflecting a yield of between 8.5-8.75%.
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Triathlon Homes secures £95m loan
Triathlon Homes has secured a £95m loan from the European Investment Bank which will assist in the building of the 2012 Olympic Village.
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Permira-owned firm buys hotel and conference centre
Principal Hayley Hotels and Conference Venues, the Permira owned investment firm, has bought the 222-bedroom Quality Hotel in Glasgow and New Connaught Rooms, a London conference centre.
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REITs 'failed to live up to expectations' say Lords
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have failed to live up to expectations, the House of Lords select committee on economic affairs has concluded.
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Birmingham chills out at Lancaster Circus
Birmingham City Council’s contract to refurbish 1 Lancaster Circus, one of the authority’s office buildings, has become the location for one of UK’s largest ever chilled beam installations.
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Green light for Airdrie plans
AWG Property and WG Mitchell have won planning consent for a state of the art health centre, offices and retail scheme in Airdrie town centre in Scotland.
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UK retail sales fall further, CBI says
UK retail sales fell for the second month running in the year to June, the CBI Distributive Trades Survey revealed today, though the decline was less severe than falls recorded between July 2008 and March 2009.
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Credit Suisse upgrades UK commercial property shares
Credit Suisse has raised its recommendation for UK commercial property shares to ‘overweight’ because ‘the UK economic momentum is better than any other developed country'.
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Development Securities raises £94m for bargain hunting
Development Securites is raising £94m of new equity to fund expansion.
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Valad sells Swansea trade park
Valad Property Group has sold the Cwmdu Trade Park in Swansea for £7.2m reflecting a net initial yield of 10% to a local cash investor.
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Duchy Estate suffers first valuation fall
The Prince of Wales’s Duchy estate has suffered the first fall in property values since it first revalued its properties 10 years ago.
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Affordable housing a misnomer says financier
Deepak Parekh, chairman of HDFC, the company credited with setting up the housing finance market in India from the scratch, feels that in its present form, affordable housing is a `misnomer'.
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US house builders swoop on cheap land
US home builders, long burdened with excess holdings of land, now are shopping for more of it.
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Mainland China luxury home prices surge
Luxury residential properties across major mainland cities have been widely sought after by both investors and wealthy end-users in the past two months, say property agents.
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Beijing aims for stable long term growth
The central government has changed tack on measures to stimulate the property market and is now targeting sustainable and stable longer-term growth rather than a short-term boost to demand.
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HSBC to cut UAE mortgage rates
HSBC is to cut the mortgage rate for its Flexi Loan customers in the UAE by 100 basis points from 1 July.
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Low appraisals stifle US recovery
Low home appraisals could be scuppering US housing recovery.
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China property stocks set to soar say Henderson
China property stocks may extend gains as home prices in the world’s third-largest economy outstrip analyst estimates amid demand for better housing, Henderson Global Investors’ Andrew Mattock said.