All Property Week articles in 13 January 2017 – Page 6
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Stamp duty scuppers plans for PRS schemes
Three Fizzy Living private rented sector (PRS) schemes have fallen through as a direct result of the 3% stamp duty surcharge, it has emerged - lending further weight to Property Week’s campaign to Call Off Duty.
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Blakeway joins Iceni Projects as consultant
David Cameron’s former housing adviser Richard Blakeway has joined planning firm Iceni Projects as a consultant.
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Three flagship tenants take units at Waterloo scheme
London and Continental Railways (LCR) has signed up three flagship tenants to its Leake Street Arches retail scheme below Waterloo station.
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Insight
Starter homes 'just one tool in government's armoury'
At the end of last year, you would have been forgiven for thinking that the government’s starter homes policy was dead.
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Insight
American apparel: Greystar interview
To some, it is the private rented sector (PRS). To others, it’s the professional rented or build-to-rent sector. With the arrival of US giant Greystar in the market, another moniker is rapidly gaining traction: multi-family housing.
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Professional
Young to lead LSH’s industrial agency team in Manchester
Lambert Smith Hampton has appointed Dean Young as a director to head up its Manchester industrial agency team. He will be based in the firm’s Spinningfields office.
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Separated at birth: John Torode and Ezra Nahome
Lambert Smith Hampton chief executive Ezra Nahome’s predictions in last week’s issue may not have made 2017 sound the tastiest of dishes , but who could argue with the concoctions whipped up by doppelgänger MasterChef host John Torode?
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Insight
New industrial sector? No easy feat
If the City of London Corporation is currently considering including “external consolidation centres as a requirement for future planning applications”, I wonder if this might be easier said than done.
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Commotion in the ocean
It may be one of the most unlikely places a Property Week interview has ever been conducted.
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Professional
People Moves: Chancerygate, Meyer Bergman, Martin’s Properties and more
All the latest moves, appointments and promotions from across the property sector.
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Online
Pi Labs announces fourth proptech intake
Proptech accelerator Pi Labs has announced its fourth intake of start-ups, which will be funded and mentored through its investment programme.
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£40.5m campus plan for Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth University and the Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus (AIEC), have submitted a full planning application to the Ceredigion county council for the development of their Gogerddan campus in Wales.
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Insight
What legal construction issues are in the crystal ball for 2017?
Having read Mark Farmer’s gaze into the, increasingly unreliable, crystal ball I wanted to look at issues that might impact on the legal side of construction in 2017.
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Women in property to pedElle through Portugal
With more than 40% of Britons making health-related new year’s resolutions, Metropolis expects a lot of the sector will already be on their bikes, but Club Peloton is giving women in property a chance to take it a pedal stroke further on the Legal & General Real Assets pedElle 2017.
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Positive forecast lifts Harrworth Group shares
Shares in Harworth Group jumped 3.3% on Tuesday after the company said its full year results would be better than expected.
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Savills makes Channel Islands acquisition
Savills UK has bolstered its presence in the Channel Islands by acquiring Montagu Evans Channel Islands Limited.
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Professional
Make sure you're keeping things clean in the boardroom
Prime minister Theresa May is said to have promised a crackdown and continued reform of unacceptable corporate boardroom behaviour. So now is a good time to look at what this may mean in the context of companies facing tougher anti-corruption and financial crime laws.
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Professional
Putting the finishing touches on a sustainable development scoreboard
Early last year, consultancy Iceni Projects launched the Sustainable Development Commission: a group of councils, developers, consultants and campaigners charged with coming up with a clear-cut way of defining sustainable development.
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Southern Rail strikes stifling house price growth, research suggests
House prices along the Southern Rail network have grown slower than the national average amid damaging strike action by staff, new research has shown.