All Property Week articles in 25 April 2008
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Professional
APC advice - Graduate 3 and senior professional making your experience count
The subject of this article echoes one of the recent awareness-raising exercises by the RICS to communicate to experienced non-chartered surveyors the opportunity to use their experience to their benefit and speed up the process of becoming chartered.The three routes to RICS membership are graduate 3, senior professional and adaptation. ...
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Hermes boss to lead sustainability debate at Think 08
Rupert Clarke to be joined by Manchester Civil Justice Centre developer and 20 other speakers on Property Week-backed seminar programme
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Two weeks left to sign up for tax summit
Property Week is offering readers a completely free ‘heads up’ to the introduction of the Government’s new tax on development – the Community Infrastructure Levy or CIL.
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English Partnerships accused of ‘sabotaging’ exclusivity agreement
English Partnerships was today accused of ‘sabotaging’ an exclusivity agreement over a development site in Middlesbrough.
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RREEF completes $400m Indian tie up
RREEF has bought majority stake in a $400m (£201m) mixed-use scheme in Hyderabad, Eastern India.
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Church Commissioners appoints property boss
The Church Commissioners has appointed Joseph Cannon as chief surveyor.
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OnlineRhatigan and Goodbody sell out of Dublin’s Brunel building
Rhatigan Developments and Goodbody Stockbrokers have sold their Brunel office development at Heuston South Quarter in Dublin for approximately €60m (£47.1m).
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MCR buys from Legal & General
MCR Property Group has bought a second portfolio from Legal & General for just under £11m, as tipped by Property Week (14.03.08).
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OnlineDorrington buys £22m Clerkenwell Building
Dorrington has bought Gullivers house in Clerkenwell, London from Invista Real Estate for £22m.
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OnlineDuddingston’s gets to work on Job Centre redevelopment
Duddingston House Properties has been granted planning consent for an office redevelopment in Edinburgh city centre.
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Protego enters Vietnamese residential market
Protego Real Estate Investors is to enter the Vietnamese market through a partnership with developer Quodos Asia.
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Kemsley builds up £500m warchest
Paul Kemsley has secured a funding agreement with Bank of Scotland Corporate which gives him $1bn (£500m) to spend on property in the US, UK and Europe.
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News
Negative equity fears' overplayed'
Britain will escape a repeat of the negative equity crisis of the 1990s unless there is an unprecedented fall in house prices, according to analysis that suggests talk of a disastrous housing slump is overplayed. Financial Times (Saturday)
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House prices 'could fall 25%'
House prices could fall by 25% if the credit crunch persists, with the market declining by 10% this year and by a further 15 percentage points in 2009, a new study suggests. The Times
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House prices show 'symbolic' annual fall
The first evidence that the average home is worth less than it was a year ago is disclosed in a report today, sparking fears that hundreds of thousands of homeowners could be plunged into negative equity. Daily Telegraph, Financial Times
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Blackstone raises new property fund
Global private-equity giant Blackstone is raising a European property fund of up to €3.5bn (£2.8bn) in an attempt to begin picking off the most attractive players in the sector as values continue to fall. Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times
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Tchenguiz enters Trillium fray
A consortium has entered the bidding for Trillium, setting the scene for an intriguing £2b takeover battle for the property outsourcing business owned by Land Securities, according to reports in the weekend press.
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Weis moves to plunder 1bn of US property
Hopes that plunging American residential property prices may soon start to bottom out were raised yesterday after one Wall Street fund that specialises in buying distressed real estate revealed plans to start spending its $1bn (£504mn) investment portfolio in the next three to six months. The Times
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City gives cautious backing to Livingstone
Ken Livingstone has won the tacit support of the City in his bid to be re-elected as London mayor on Thursday. Financial Times.
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Abbey profits from others' woes
Abbey is expected to reveal a jump of almost 20% in first-quarter profits this week, after picking up mortgage customers from struggling rivals. Sunday Times
