All articles by Samantha Lyster
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MarketsDerby council plans 3,000-capacity venue to replace Assembly Rooms
In 2014, Derby’s main performance venue, the Assembly Rooms, was engulfed in a huge fire that tore through the brutalist 1970s building.
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InsightEuropean market: logistics in Pole position
With its rising GDP and cheap skilled labour force, central and eastern Europe is fast becoming the location of choice for logistics operations.
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InsightInterview: John Downes of Langtree Group
John Downes has gone back to his roots - literally.
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MarketsGiving up the gavel: are sellers ready to go online-only?
Online-only auctions of homes have been growing - can this success be replicated in the commercial market?
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MarketsSecondary shopping centres can offer great returns – but creative management is paramount
With a cheery wave, the statue of beloved comedian Eric Morecambe keeps a twinkling eye over the English seaside town that shares his surname.
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MarketsTrampoline parks bouncing into the UK
Trampoline parks are already big news in America, but the trend has yet to catch on in the UK. That could change as a growing number of operators seek sites across the country.
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The countryside is closed. Or is it?
Not all country businesses are suffering. We report on several companies that have seen profits increase
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Goodnight Mayfair
Is Hanover Square too grand for surveying firms? Low West End vacancy rates and spiralling rents are giving agents headaches about the future of their own headquarters.
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Professional
Cleaning agents
A planned EU directive will force property agents, including those in small firms, to appoint a staff member to report suspected money launderers to the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
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Search on for king of new Elephant & Castle
Today marks the deadline for submission of ideas to beautify or demolish the Elephant & Castle shopping centre in south-east London. The biggest names in residential and commercial development will be putting forward plans for redevelopment of the centre voted the capital's ...
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The best of both worlds
Compulsory competitive tendering was laid to rest last month as the Local Government Act ushered in a new era of 'best value'. This report asks what, if anything, best value means for property managers in local authorities and how it will affect their relationship with the private sector
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Housing group with no home
The first pressure group to encourage retailers to lease their empty upper floors to housing associations is itself about to become homeless. Ann Tetherick set up Living Over The Shops in 1989 to bring together retail property directors and landlords so that they could agree to residential use for ...
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Firms lobby lenders in new sponsorship drive
Residential surveyors are in such short supply that surveying firms are lobbying lenders to sponsor residential surveying courses at universities. The shortage has arisen because most lenders will not use newly qualified surveyors to carry out mortgage valuations. David Harbour, MD of Allied Surveyors, an independent practice with 130 offices ...
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Grand central
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are now the leading destinations for developers wanting exposure to emerging European markets. In the concluding part of our series, the property market in these nations are examined
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Rent reductions loom over London landlords
A shortage of tenants and a glut of landlords means investors in London residential property are unlikely to see a steady income in the short term. A deluge of reports published last week will bring little comfort to landlords who have used cheap money from buy-to-let mortgages to get ...
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Retailers to expand as Gas leaves high street
At least one retailer may add 50 shops to its chain by taking more than a fifth of the Energy Centres that Centrica put on the market last week. Centrica, which lost £33m last year when the former British Gas showrooms failed to trade well, called in Chesterton ...
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Lettings market needs urgent financial legislation, says MP
An Mp campaigning for legislation to force letting agents to hold clients money in separate accounts has warned the House of Commons that many could go out of business in the next two years. Howard Flight, Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs, who is also ...
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Door still open for out-of-town developments
Eight superstores have gained planning consent in the last few months on out-of-town or edge-of-town sites after the retailers passed the sequential test to prove there were no suitable Town Centre sites. DTZ Pieda Consulting have analysed planning decisions between June 1998 and last May, ...
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Counter signs
Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury s, the aristocracy of UK retail, aren t the only shops to have had a hard time in the last year. Now on-line database FOCUS reveals a slowdown in demand for space. This report explains why the retailers honeymoon period is over
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Dixons uses the carrot approach to disposals
Agents stand to make up to £15,000 each from Dixons, as the electrical retailer ups the incentive to find new occupiers for the remaining stores in its disposal plan, five years after the programme started. Dixons agent, Conrad Ritblat, has found an unusual way of identifying the surplus shops. ...
