All Property Week articles in 26 October 2012 – Page 6
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Insight
Buy to let is pressing lenders’ buttons once more
Little clues often give away a lot. Take, for instance, the automated message string Nationwide’s mortgage applicants have to endure.
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News
Reuben brothers' Piccadilly palace
Cambridge House — once home to In & Out club — could be worth £200m after restoration to former glory.
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Markets
Broadgate’s new image
Broadgate owners British Land and Blackstone are ramping up marketing of the City of London scheme next month to try to attract and retain a new generation of office occupiers.
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News
Bottom of the market
In the same week that Pippa Middleton revealed that she found interest in her bottom “startling”, word reached Ludgate (with a CGI) of the latest proposed development in Qatar: a residential tower in the shape of Pippa’s derrière.
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Markets
Oxford lets bolster sluggish take-up
Computer games developer Natural Motion has taken 18,500 sq ft at Ramsay House (pictured), above the BHS store on St Ebbe’s Street in Oxford city centre.
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Markets
Ritchie runs with RESI's next big thing
The winner of the Dragons Den-style “RESI’s Next Big Thing” contest at this year’s RESI conference says the key to success is to “keep looking until you find your niche”.
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News
Bids in for Guildford’s Friary
Developers have this week submitted bids to develop 400,000 sq ft of retail in Guildford town centre.
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Markets
Beko makes entrance at Watford’s Croxley Gateway
White goods distributor to buy empty office building on the cheap
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Markets
Prologis to expand sheds in Beds
Prologis plans to extend its Marston Gate scheme in Bedfordshire and is considering speculative development.
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Markets
Ex-St Modwen pair Ouse confidence in Bedford leisure
Coplan Estates plans mixed-use site as St Modwen pulls out. Stuart Watson reports
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News
Clare: private rented is ‘big opportunity’ for Barratt
Barratt Developments is exploring plans to develop up to 5,000 homes a year for private renting in London.
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Markets
There’s only one thing holding back residential development
Residential development — previously a powerhouse of economic growth — is on the floor. Government figures show that, in the decade leading up to 2007, an average of 141,000 private units were started each year. Since the credit crunch, this has dropped to a measly 71,000. Residential housebuilding has halved.
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Professional
Virtual auctions quicker, easier and cheaper than strictly ballroom
In 2009, we witnessed a change in the nature of investors visiting the Singer Vielle website to search for investments.
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Insight
Spain sets discount for bad bank asset transfer
The Spanish government yesterday unveiled the discounts at which its banks will sell distressed property assets to its equivalent of NAMA.
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News
Ipsos Mori asks the audience
Four hundred and fifty delegates were asked by Ipsos MORI’s Ben Page to vote on key London issues.
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News
Bank of England ‘enforcer’ reveals his arsenal
Andy Haldane, head of financial stability, tells Mike Phillips how he will prevent another crash
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Professional
Vardy verdict leaves more questions than answers
Revenue and Customs has won at the First Tier Tribunal in the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) avoidance case of Vardy Properties and Vardy Properties (Teesside) v Revenue and Customs.