All Property Week articles in 03 December 2010 – Page 3
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Mortgage market thaws
Home buyers have seen the first chink of light in the mortgage market since before the election with a loosening of credit conditions and more generous loan-to-value ratios.
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Berkeley Group profits up nearly 20%
Housebuilder Berkeley Group revealed an 18.5% increase in pre-tax profit over the past six months during an ‘elusive sustained recovery’.
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Central London resi back as safe haven for overseas investors
Central London has reaffirmed its position as a safe haven for residential investors from the Eurozone and beyond.
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City site put into receivership
A City development site close to the Lloyds of London building has gone into receivership, and is set to be sold in the New Year.
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News
Rockspring’s solar Venture
Rockspring Property Investment Managers is to run Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire on solar energy
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X-Leisure picks Shelly Sandzer
Shelley Sandzer has been appointed by X-Leisure to advise on leasing, disposals and acquisitions across its leisure portfolio
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Insight
An ode to "unlawful" Pickles
When Eric Pickles wrote his infamous letter of 27 May 2010, and abolished regional spatial strategies, it turned out the action was unlawful
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Nakheel seeks succour in sukuk
Nakheel, the Dubai-based developer of the Palm Jumeirah and World schemes, is to issue sukuk – sharia-compliant bonds – to pay back creditors
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Toeing the party line
To the Dorchester Spa in London’s Park Lane, where Target Parking chief executive Emma Sinclair was providing some good tips on how to take care of your female clients
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The new kings of the property investment jungle
Asset management will be dominated by “elephants” and “cheetahs”
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Harry Plotters
The grand debate on day two of the IPD/IPF Investment conference in Brighton, on the future importance of the UK market in a global context, featured an interesting subtext for those in the know
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Markets
Vital statistics: Segro goes west
Following its £165.5m acquisition of rival Brixton in August 2009, Segro has nearly quadrupled, by value, the size of its west London holdings
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Professional
Green funds grow
Investor appetite for “green” property funds is growing but there are still factors holding the sector back, says Verdantix
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Professional
Old hands provide a foundation for property
Last month, the Reading Real Estate Foundation held its ninth annual dinner at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel in London. Almost 400 guests attended the event, which spanned 23 graduation years
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Insight
Investment’s ‘third way’ is to focus on income
The UK market has been spoilt for many years by the plentiful availability of investment performance data produced by companies such as Investment Property Databank
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Markets
And finally...Olive Grows
The venue of Property Week’s Property Chef competition, the Olive Grows commercial kitchen, is looking for new premises
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Markets
Prime London extends its worldwide web
South Kensington townhouse attracts interest from Bangkok to Xiamen
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Europe’s entreaty to Germany
The European listed real estate sector this week expressed frustration at the German government’s insistence on continuing to prop up the ailing open-ended fund structure with “reactive legislative changes” – at the expense of efforts to grow the publicly listed property market in Germany
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Professional
Landlords have a duty to tenants: never lower your guard
The much-anticipated health and safety review from Lord Young, published in mid-October, is a positive step towards tackling several myths
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Insight
As temperatures drop, so do prime industrial yields
Yields on prime industrial property dropped by 25 basis points in November, as pricing in the other sectors remained unchanged