All Property Week articles in 14 November 2008
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APC advice - Week 19: Nine-month supervisor review (part 3)
Jon Lever tells you what you need to do to prepare for your nine-month supervisor review. Meanwhile, Ben Elder looks at the competency on housing strategy and provision.
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Cut business rates to help companies, says expert
A leading ratings expert is calling for a cut in business rates next year to match today’s fall in the retail prices index.
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Grosvenor to reorganise continental European business
Grosvenor’s chief executive of continental Europe is to leave the property company next summer following a restructuring of the business.
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Basildon council seals £247m housing estate regeneration deal
English Partnerships, Basildon District Council and Swan Housing Group have agreed a £247m deal to regenerate Basildon’s Craylands and Fryerns estate.
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Inflation drops to 4.5%
Consumer prices in the UK tumbled 0.7 per cent in October to a much lower-than-expected annualised rate of 4.5 per cent, after peaking at 5.2 per cent in September.
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Grainger’s Latin American market scheme gets green light
Grainger was last night granted planning consent to redevelop Wards Corner in Haringey following a dispute with residents over a Latin American market at the site.
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Brixton signs umbrella maker at Park Royal
Brixton has let 27,700 sq ft at Premier Park in Park Royal, West London, to umbrella maker, A Fulton Company.
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Mapic: Top retail locations globally still attract rising rents
The downturn has polarised the rents achieved in primary and secondary locations across the globe according to CB Richard Ellis’ latest Global Retail Rents Survey.
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West End sees less shoppers, but still outperforming the nation
London’s West End experienced a 0.8% year on year drop of shoppers visiting its stores in October, but still out performed a national drop on the high street of 6.6%.
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Cluttons consults over further redundancies
Cluttons is in consultation with all of its staff as it prepares to make more than 20 redundancies.
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Wilson Bowden submits Macclesfield Town Centre plans
Wilson Bowden Developments has this week submitted an outline planning application for a £200m redevelopment of Macclesfield town centre.
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Labour revolt over empty rates
Chief whip Nick Brown has thrown his weight behind calls to reinstate empty property rates relief – in direct contrast to the message from business minister Lord Mandelson and the tax’s architect, local government minister John Healey.
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Starwood to target UK for W hotel expansion
Global hotels group Starwood Hotels & Resort plans to open up to 10 W hotels in the UK, including up to five in London within 10 years.
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Rents slump as empty houses flood market
Residential rents fell for the first time since April 2003 in the three months to October as the supply of properties to let surged, according to the latest survey from the RICS.
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Buy-to-let negative equity up to 40%
Up to 40% of buy-to-let borrowers face falling into negative equity by the middle of next year as the rapid decline in house prices continues, a new report has warned.
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MPs urge empty rates U-turn
Gordon Brown is coming under pressure from his backbenchers to scrap a tax on empty property that is blamed for the demolition of buildings that developers cannot sell.
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Citi to axe 52,000 more jobs
Citigroup yesterday took radical action to cushion the blows of the financial turmoil and revive its flagging share price, announcing plans to axe 52,000 jobs, or one in seven employees, and slash costs by about $10bn (£6.6bn).
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JP Morgan boosts Docklands
JP Morgan lifted spirits in London’s Docklands yesterday after announcing a £237m deal with Canary Wharf Group to develop a building in the district.
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Builders urge tenfold rise in social buy-up fund
The house building industry has called for a tenfold increase in the £200m fund set up by the government to buy unwanted homes from the private sector and turn them into social housing.