All Property Week articles in 24 September 2010 – Page 7
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Markets
Cuts to benefits could leave landlords in gutter
Proposed cuts to local housing allowances will affect many landlords’ income and could add to homelessness, claims the National Landlords Association (NLA) after a survey of its members
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Markets
Q+A: Simon Bedford’s bedfellows
Paul Unger speaks to Simon Bedford (pictured), head of Drivers Jonas’s Manchester office, about how the integration with Deloitte into Drivers Jonas Deloitte is going
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Insight
Home Truths Yolande Barnes
Residential’s ’good feel’ of yesteryear has been crushed by austerity measures
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Markets
Native Land's Barclays finance
A sign of bank finance returning to residential development was evident in London’s Chelsea this month
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Markets
Bank-owned sites lead to land of opportunity
Banks have so far resisted flooding the market with distressed assets, holding on to more than has been let go, but intriguing opportunities are starting to emerge around Manchester
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Insight
What to know: Basel III banking regulations
James Whitmore explains how the new rules will affect the property industry
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News
Chinese bank in Spanish capital
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), has signed for an 11,840 sq ft Spanish headquarters at the six-storey Recoletos 3 in Madrid, Spain. The bank has agreed a five-year lease. Savills advised ICBC.
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News
‘We’re really a property company, not a bad bank …’
Head of lending at National Asset Management Agency reveals plans for “Irish REIT” to clear up disaster.
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News
Axa toasts French employees
Axa Real Estate Investment Managers has made several promotions in its property services team. Pascal Aujoux has been promoted to head of property services in France and Christophe Facomprez is now head of transactions.
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News
Union Investment's foremost asset
Union Investment has bought the Holiday Inn Express in Dresden, Germany, from Foremost Real Estate for one of its open-ended real estate funds. The 218-room hotel is scheduled to open in summer 2011.
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Professional
Take five ... tips for asking for a pay rise
Many property professionals took pay cuts during the recession
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Professional
Need to know: your rights on asking for study leave
Employees have the right to request study leave from their employer
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Markets
Growth emerges from ashes of Halliwells
In the first six months of 2010 only one letting of more than 20,000 sq ft was achieved in the Manchester city centre office market
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Professional
Protection laws aren’t helping healthy competition, says Graham Chase
The Competition Act 1998 identifies that open and vigorous competition is good for consumers because it results in lower prices, new products, better quality and more choice. It is also good for fair-dealing businesses that flourish when markets are competitive.
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Professional
Paper trails aren't pulp yet
Storing business information on dead trees should be as obsolete as quill and parchment in the computer age, yet the paperless office seems as elusive as ever
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Markets
DevSecs holds auditions for MEN arena
Naming rights up for grabs at venue, while Hale Barns plans progress
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Professional
Qube announce upgrades
Qube Global has made upgrades for version 10 of its Horizon, Planet and Qube management software, which is used by around 850 clients in the property industry.
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Professional
Andrew Szyman from F&C Reit reports on green property investment
Despite a three-hour delay to my flight to Poland, the 100 km transfer to Krynica – the venue for the 20th Economic Forum for Central and Eastern Europe – was infinitely more tortuous.