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Property's debt mountain reduces but £73bn of loans can't be refinanced
This year’s De Montfort property lending survey paints a bleak picture of an industry struggling to shake off the shackles of debt. Mike Phillips reports
Back into the black
Years of losses, mounting debt, a costly workforce and a pensions black hole have forced UK Coal to bet its future on the success of its newly spun-off property arm, Harworth Estates. James Whitmore reports
Opinion
Debt-bound banks: better to give than to receive
Property Week was among the loudest voices speaking out against soaring bank lending to real estate in the mid-2000s.
I dare you to step back on the British high street
When will it be safe to go back into the high street?
It’s business as usual, in or out of the limelight
I’ve become used to seeing my picture in the papers over the last 10 years or so, and it’s neither bothered me nor excited me much because it has all been factual, pretty accurate and, for the most part, favourable.
Banks are not blameless in valuation disputes
Sir, I read Peter Sudell’s article “In valuation disputes, it’s the client’s fault as much as the valuers” with interest (professional opinion, 27.04.12).
VAT will kill historic assets
Sir, I write to state our opposition to the government’s decision to remove the zero rate of VAT on alterations to historic buildings (news, 05.04.12)
Mansion tax will cripple businesses, not wealthy buyers
Sir, From next April, the so-called mansion tax of up to £140,000 a year will be payable, and capital gains tax will extend to overseas entities that realise capital gains from the sale of residential property (feedback, 30.03.12).
Colliers prepack ensures mid-table security
First DTZ, now Colliers International. One by one agency’s quoted names are collapsing into insolvency — the victims of debts incurred during ill-advised expansion in the boom (finance).
Leader: “There has been bitchiness about Irvine Sellar’s Shard in London”
With Property Week readers following news from MIPIM on iPhone, iPad and laptops over the next week, today we revert to a magazine, rather than newspaper style, for our first international special of 2012.
