All Property Week articles in 3 October 2008
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APC Advice - Week 13: Six-month counsellor and supervisor review (part 2)
Jon Lever gives more detail about how to prepare for your six-month review, while Ben Elder tackles the competency on economic development
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Crash provides fundamental property lessons
Buy in the right place at the right time with secure income, says Trevor Moross
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English Heritage reveals top 20 conservation-led developments
English Heritage today revealed its list of 20 of the best conservation-led development schemes in England.
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OnlineBenjamin triumphs at European awards
Apollo Real Estate's Bill Benjamin was crowned European property personality of the year in Munich last night.
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Recession talk spurs rate cut call
A bleak picture of life for small businesses at the sharp end of the credit crunch is painted by the British Chambers of Commerce today, in a survey of sentiment that warns of 'exceptionally bad' conditions for enterprise.
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Markets crisis: Markets routed in panic
Stocks in London suffered their worst falls since the Black Monday crash in October 1987 yesterday as growing fears about the effect of the deepening financial crisis on the global economy prompted a wave of selling around the world.
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Market crisis: UK banks back rescue
British major banks have told the Government they support its plan to take substantial shareholdings in return for an injection of billions of pounds.
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Market crisis: EU leaders vow to use any means necessary
Leaders of all 27 European Union governments rushed to reassure plunging markets yesterday they would each help prop up the financial system as more countries raced to follow Germany’s unilateral move to offer blanket protection for savers.
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Hypo chiefs set to quit
The management of Hypo Real Estate was expected to resign yesterday after the second bail-out in a week raised serious questions about the future of the German property lender.
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Hong Kong poses threat to City
Hong Kong poses the greatest threat among Asian cities to the dominance of London and New York as the top world financial centres, according to research commissioned by the City of London Corporation.
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Balfour deal paves way to plea bargains
Leading multinationals will be able to strike US-style plea bargains to end longrunning foreign corruption inquiries after prosecutors unveiled a landmark settlement yesterday over suspected bribery in the $130m (£75m) reimagining of Alexandria’s lost ancient library in Egypt.
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B&B shareholder action group plan
The UK Shareholders’ Association is considering launching a Bradford & Bingley action group, to seek compensation for the bank’s 900,000 individual shareholders.
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Enterprise incubators hit Stamp Duty cut
Two of the country’s leading fast-growth business incubators have had their budgets slashed by regional development agencies struggling to pay for Gordon Brown’s economic recovery initiatives.
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Kenmore sells in Norway
Kenmore has sold an Oslo offices building and two property portfolios in Norway for around £41m (NOK 421m).
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Leeds’ Carter & Co and Towlers merge
Leeds based property consultants Carter & Co and Towlers have merged to form a new fifty-strong practice called Carter Towler.
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Invista Canmoor Fund buys five industrial estates for £35.5m
Invista Canmoor Active Industiral Fund has bought five industrial estates for £35.5m and refinanced a further three with Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Derwent London hooks HOK in Qube
Derwent London has let over 27,000 sq ft at its Qube Development in central London to architecture firm, HOK International.
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The downturn in the construction industry is putting the government’s target of building 2m homes by 2016 more and more out of reach, the RICS said today.
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OnlineLaxton appointed UK chief executive of Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Bryan Laxton as its first CEO in the UK.
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London's St James's office market OK
London’s St James’s office market will retain a degree of immunity to the global economic crisis, bolstered by the hedge fund and financial firms that are still making money, Atisreal has said.
