All Property Week articles in 12 July 2013 – Page 5
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Insight
Is property homophobic?
Homophobic prejudice remains rife in the property industry, making lesbian, gay and transgender professionals reluctant to come out. Sarah Townsend investigates
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Insight
Is property homophobic?
Homophobic prejudice remains rife in the property industry, making lesbian, gay and transgender professionals reluctant to come out. Sarah Townsend investigates
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News
Hants up for Home Office’s Jacobean mansion
The Home Office has put a Jacobean mansion in Hampshire up for sale for £20m-£25m, as part of the government’s bid to raise money to help cut the budget deficit.
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News
Hammerson Rox on in Newcastle
Hammerson has agreed the first letting in England for Scottish jeweller Rox at its Monument Mall, Newcastle, following a £15m refurbishment.
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Insight
Government tinkering will not save sinking planning ship
Sir, As that very rare thing, a chartered town planner who is also a property developer, I read your analysis (28.06.13) and recent feedback letters with interest.
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Insight
Retail: the next generation
Shops without tills, personalised products created on demand by 3D printing, shopfronts designed to incorporate hidden QR codes to be read by Google Glass or smartphones, and augmented reality: the retail world of 2025 will be radically different from that of today.
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News
Local Shopping Reit to take up to four years to unravel
It could take as long as four years to liquidate Local Shopping Reit because of the “impediment” of its interest rate swap liabilities and the state of the beleaguered secondary retail market.
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News
Take five … tips for managing open-ended funds
Open-ended funds are fundamentally exposed to investors’ change in sentiment.
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Professional
UK's first large Passivhaus scheme
The UK’s first mixed-tenure “Passivhaus” development was launched in west London last week.
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Professional
English Heritage lays ground for revamp
Future of listed sites uncertain as charity spins off management arm.
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News
Property lobbies on European economy
The European Property Federation is lobbying the European Commission to recognise property’s position at the heart of the European economy.
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Professional
London School of Economics lauds global eco-initiatives
But cities need to work on local energy distribution.
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Professional
Need to know: latest stamp duty rows
Charities can acquire property in partnership with non-charities without having to pay stamp duty land tax (SDLT), following a landmark Court of Appeal ruling this month. Property Week finds out how.
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Insight
Display dispute
Sir, Building Services Research and Information Association’s Rod Bunn argued against display energy certificates (“Poor” display energy certificates wind up property industry, 05,07.13, below).
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Insight
Despite recent development, London supply will fall short
Development activity in London has increased in recent years, partly because of the strong performance of property prices in the capital compared with the rest of the UK.
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Markets
June quarter day wreaks misery in north-west
Four chains threaten store closures. Kat Spybey reports
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Markets
Q+A: Darran Lawless, engine driver of the north
Last month, Darran Lawless left Muse Developments to join Cheshire East Council as managing director of its newly formed development company, East Cheshire Engine of the North, to help manage and develop the council’s land assets.
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News
Minerva plans Croydon outlet
A local retail outlet village will open at the former Allders department store in Croydon.
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Professional
Notes from Stockholm: if planners create ghettos, expect riots
“There is still great frustration amongst these youngsters, that their parents don’t have the jobs they want and aren’t living the lives they want.”
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News
M&G and council tie up in Guildford
M&G Real Estate and Guildford Council are in talks to form a partnership for the retail redevelopment of the North Street site, which could scupper earlier plans to appoint Lend Lease as development partner.