All Property Week articles in 20 March 2009
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APC Advice - Week 35: Supervisor and counsellor review (part 2 - candidate preparation)
Jon Lever tells you the steps you should take ahead of the 18-month meeting, and Ben Elder looks at the competency on corporate finance
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'No surprise administrations' on quarter day, says DTZ's Chase (video)
Despite concern 'quarter day' - when retailers are due to make their latest quarterly rental payment - could result in a number admitting financial problems, DTZ's Martyn Chase is not expecting any surprise bad news.
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Wembley Stadium students scheme wins planning appeal
Student accommodation company Victoria Hall has won a planning appeal over its plans to develop a £25m apartment block near Wembley Stadium.
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Lord mayor of London calls for end to empty rates tax
Lord mayor of London Ian Luder said the empty rates tax was harming London and would damage its attractiveness as a global financial centre.
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Private investor buys Tesco shed
Invista Real Estate Investment Management has sold a warehouse in Bolton, Lancashire, let to Tesco, to a private investor for £11.9m.
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Yorkshire entrepreneur Bramall adds to growing Leeds portfolio
Leeds businessman Tony Bramall is set to add to his growing portfolio of opportunistic property purchases after exchanging contracts for two properties in Leeds.
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UK’s ‘greenest’ medical building gets under way
Construction has begun on the first phase of the £300m Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust , which is on target to become the UK’s ‘greenest’ medical building to date.
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Developers disappointed at Chinese site release
Developers say government sites available for sale on this year's land application list are unlikely to attract enthusiastic bidding and many may not attract interest at all.
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DLF to open four new malls before Diwali 2009
The country's largest realty firm, DLF, on Tuesday said that it would open four new shopping malls in the Delhi-NCR region before Diwali (mid-October) this year and is expecting a lower rent in its new malls than existing levels.
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Smaller US developers turns to cities for aid
While some of the country's largest corporations are looking to Washington for bailout relief, some small real-estate developers are reaching out to local governments for help in moving forward with high-profile projects.
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US Home prices rise for first time in 10 months
The federal government's gauge of home prices rose in January for the first time in 10 months.
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Macquarie sells supermarkets to cut debt
The heavily indebted Macquarie CountryWide Trust yesterday sold five more assets for A$92.6m -- bringing the total asset sale since 2006 to A$1.1bn.
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Gulf property market 'seeing recovery'
The regional property market has started seeing 'green shoots of recovery' in the first part of the year, with the market expected to start recovering as early as the autumn, a property consultancy said in a report.
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Tameer reviewing Reem Island contracts
Tameer Holding, a Dubai-based property developer, is 'reviewing' its construction contracts for the US$1.6bn (Dh5.87bn) Tameer Towers on Reem Island.
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Czech Republic latest victim of East Europe woes
The economic crisis sweeping Central and Eastern Europe has claimed a third victim in a month after the Czech government lost a vote of no confidence last night in a drama that risks setting off a fresh round of investor flight from the region.
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BRC blames quarter rent day for retail failure
The British Retail Consortium said today will be the toughest quarterly rents payments day for at least 18 years.
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New mortgages rise to 10-month high
New mortgage lending jumped to its highest level in 10 months in February, the British Bankers’ Association reported yesterday, in the latest sign that the housing market may be stabilising.
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Bank chief bids to rein in Budget
Mervyn King yesterday warned the government it could not afford a second fiscal stimulus in next month’s Budget in a rare public attempt to ward off budgetary recklessness.
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UK mortgage lending is 'unmanageable'
Mortgage lending in the UK has reached 'unmanageable' levels and must shrink as a proportion of national economic output if banks are to make home loans profitable again, a report says.
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Cameron urges return to 'eyebrow of the Governor' discipline
David Cameron yesterday backed plans to restore the 'eyebrow of the Bank of England governor' to a central role in governing the City, in a move that would fundamentally shift the balance of power in the way banks are regulated.