All Property Week articles in 18 December 2009 – Page 4
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Healthy Australian home market
Australia's housing market ended the year well despite recent interest rate hikes, talk of a recession and the phasing out of the first-home buyer grant.
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GMAC gets third bailout package
GMAC, bailed out twice by the US government, received a third rescue package valued at $3.79bn that gives taxpayers a majority stake in the Detroit-based company.
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Saudi house prices plummet in flood-hit areas
Estate agents have estimated the value of property damaged by November’s floods in east Jeddah at more than SR100 million ($26m).
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Hulme redevelopment takes next step
Manor Property Group has completed the purchase of land in Coupland Street, in Hulme, South Manchester for a £36m planned ‘community campus’ in Birley Fields in Hulme.
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Grant Bovey ordered to pay £1m to property firm creditors
Grant Bovey, the husband of the television presenter Anthea Turner, has been ordered to pay back more than £1m to creditors of his failed buy-to-let empire.
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Broad consensus that house prices are too high
Britain's leading economists are almost unanimous in their view that house prices are still too high.
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Property developers lobby Conservatives
A powerful coalition of some of Britain’s biggest property developers will launch this week to fight Tory party planning policies.
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House prices face decade of 'sobriety'
House price growth threatens to be limited for the next 10 years because of the damaging legacy of the Noughties, new analysis suggests.
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UK Government eyes better returns from property
The Government could look to take advantage of the downturn in the property market by acquiring assets and starting new developments – despite Britain's bulging budget deficit.
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Come Dine With Me Edinburgh
Calling all Edinburgh foodies. Following the success of Property Come Dine With Me in London we are launching an Edinburgh edition.
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VAT goes up tonight
Value Added Tax is set to go back up to 17.5% tonight, following a year at 15%.
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Best read property stories of 2009
2009 has been a tale of two halves in many respects - here we look back at the most read news stories and blogs from across the last 12 months.
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Outgoing Crown Estate chairman receives knighthood
Ian Grant CBE, the Crown Estate’s outgoing chairman, who retires today, has been awarded a knighthood in the new year honours.
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First post-Christmas retail casualty emerges
Fashion chain D2 has become the first post-Christmas retail casualty.
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Max sells Industrious asset for £16.5m
Max Property Group has exchanged contracts for the sale of one of the assets on the Industrious portfolio it bought in October.
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British Land buys £87m retail assets from Segro
British Land has bought Segro's 50% interest in a joint venture with Tesco in the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre in south east London and the Clifton Moor Retail Park in York.
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Government unveils planning overhaul
An overhaul of the planning system intended to protect town centres and independent retailers from out-of-town supermarkets was unveiled yesterday by housing and planning minister John Healey.
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Hammerson sees bank holiday footfall increase 10%
Footfall across Hammerson’s shopping centre portfolio increased by 10% on Boxing Day as 1.3m people visited its centres over the bank holiday weekend.
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Invista gets shareholder approval for £53.5m capital raise
Invista's European Real Estate Trust has received shareholder approval to carry out its £53.5m capital raising.
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UBS hunting for new New York space
UBS is searching for as much as 800,000 sq ft of New York-area office space, making it the biggest tenant shopping the market as rents fall, two people familiar with the plans said.