All articles by Douglas Morrison
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OnlineHouse prices fell again in March
House prices fell 0.1% in March and with the Retail Prices Index running at 5.5% property owners continue to see “value being chipped away at an alarming rate”, according to LSL Property Services.
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Only Monaco is more expensive for homebuyers than London
Monaco remains the world’s most expensive residential location, followed by London, according to Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank.
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Centre for Cities tells Croydon to invest
Croydon is no longer “London’s back office” and the borough will need to retain and grow its existing private sector employment base if it is to maintain its economic health through a period of national shrinkage in the public sector.
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OnlineEssential Land joins Altyon and Delancey for redevelopment of GlaxoSmithKline London site
Residential developer Essential Land has joined forces with fund manager Altyon and Delancey to draw up plans for a mixed-use redevelopment of part of GlaxoSmithKline’s landholding in Beckenham, south east London.
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Property leaders lobby coalition on housing benefit payment
Property leaders urged coalition ministers to keep their pre-election pledge of restoring the direct payment of housing benefit to landlords after new figures today revealed that 11.7% of all UK rent went unpaid in December.
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Berkeley Group looking at second residential fund
Berkeley Group is working up plans to bring housing on several of its current development sites together for a second residential investment fund.
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OnlinePersimmon chief calls on coalition to issue planning guides
Mike Farley, chief executive of leading housebuilder Persimmon, has added his voice to the chorus of disapproval over the Coalition’s failure to issue clear policy guidelines for housing development after revoking regional spatial strategies.
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OnlineBarratt cools housing recovery talk
Barratt Developments today tempered the current talk of a UK housing recovery and said that the market is likely to remain challenging as a result of continued constraints on the availability of mortgage finance and overall economic concerns.
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Coalition scraps HIPs
The coalition today followed a long-held Conservative Party pledge to remove the requirement for homeowners in England and Wales to provide home information packs (HIPs) when selling their homes.
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Brett Palos completes £400m London residential investment deal
Entrepreneur Brett Palos has paid Lloyds Banking Group and Residential Land Holdings about £400m for 21 apartment blocks across central London in one of the biggest residential investment deals for years.
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Battle-scarred urban warrior Bloxham turns landlord
The recession has forced Tom Bloxham to find new sources of funding
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Residential investment outperforms all property
Residential investment property outperformed all asset classes in 2009 with total returns of 11%, Investment Property Databank (IPD) reported today.
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OnlineHousing minister Healey warns against Tory rise of the Nimby
Housing minister John Healey today raised the political stakes in housing with a warning that a vote for the Conservatives in the forthcoming election would be “the green light for Nimby shutters coming down”.
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OnlineSheffield's Blundells first in north to offer Dragon Caan's loan scheme
Leading Sheffield estate agent Blundells is the first in the North of England to launch “Dragon” James Caan’s interest-free loan scheme for buyers and sellers.
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OnlineBarratt submits major Salisbury plan
Barratt Developments has submitted a planning application for 525 homes and a 126-acre country park at Hampton Park in Bishopdown, Salisbury, following extensive public consultation.
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Strickland joins Peabody Trust
Chris Strickland, chief executive of central London office developer CORE, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Peabody Trust, one of the capital’s largest housing associations.
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Sir Terry Farrell plan for Thames Gateway parkland
Sir Terry Farrell, the acclaimed architect and government-appointed “design champion” for the Thames Gateway, claimed that a new masterplan for a “parklands landscape” could add £2.5bn to residential values in the region.
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MarketsRegulation for resi to come soon
Government housing leader hints at tougher approach to agents
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MarketsCheers as FSA enters mortgage arena
Financial Services Authority proposes to bring mortgage lending and buy to let under its jurisdiction
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Stability returning to housebuilding sector says National House Building Countil
Stability appears to be returning to the housebuilding sector with the latest figures from the National House-Building Council (NHBC) showing the sixth quarter-on-quarter rise in applications to start new homes in the UK.
