All Property Week articles in 29 April 2005 – Page 2
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MarketsYour home may be at risk
Equity-release schemes are becoming increasingly popular among Britain’s ageing homeowners. But is this a long-term solution to the problems of missold mortgages and pensions?
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Professional
New twist in Hammersmith mixed-use row
A developer that took part in a lengthy public consultation over a proposed mixed-use scheme, only to see his application turned down by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, is to appeal the decision.
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InsightIn the ghetto
Land of opportunity it may be, but Brazil is also a developing country. Heather Greig-Smith sees Rio’s poverty at first hand – in a favela
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News
Freshwater Group
Freshwater Group has submitted a planning application for a 650,000 sq ft (60,385 sq m), 40-storey office tower in Croydon.
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Ground force
St Modwen makes most of its money from regenerating grim or derelict parts of the country, so I was surprised to hear the company is sponsoring a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate the revival of Trentham in north Staffordshire.
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ProfessionalThe flying planners
Globetrotting antipodeans are flying in to keep London’s desperate planning departments afloat. Mark Shepherd met up with four of the in-demand professionals in an Australian pub in London’s Temple.
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NewsLife in the fast lane
Be careful before you accept a lift from Nick Jacobs, managing director of investor and developer Rowan Asset Management.
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Residential returns fall to four-year low
IPD index records 9.1% figure – less than half that of commercial property
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Markets
Lewisham factory revamp
An Edwardian biscuit factory is to be the new site for a 40,000 sq ft (3,715 sq m) of residential, live/work and commercial units on Staplehurst Road in Hither Green, Lewisham.
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Experian: ‘urban intelligentsia’ to shape future retail
The distribution of retail centres across the UK will need to change to meet the demands of the country’s rapidly evolving population demographics, a demographics expert told the British Property Federation conference last week.
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InsightReal estate roulette
Foreign investors have to gamble on Brazil’s currency, the real, and finance schemes with an array of imaginative funding structures.
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JP Morgan’s Zehner to quit real estate post
Senior staff turnover continues at top investment banks
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OnlineEnvironmental services: the great unknown of energy regulationsat unknown of energy regulations
Lawyers have a wonderful talent for covering clients’ backsides. It’s why they are paid so well. But Luke Bennett, who specialises in environmental law for Nabarro Nathanson, knows he will be lost for an answer to one question from the property monitoring committee of a big institutional client. That question ...
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MarketsLiving on the Edge
Mixed-use development is vital to Liverpool’s success as European Capital of Culture. Property Week profiles two teams working towards 2008. Photograph by Anthony Lycette
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News
The rics’s drink problem
RICS barflies could be in need of a new summer drinking den, as the organisation is still considering selling the half of its Westminster home on Great George Street that houses its much-loved bar.
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InsightFlying down to Rio
Foreign investors are being drawn to the ‘BRIC’ economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – despite the huge risks involved. Over the following pages, Heather Greig-Smith reports from Brazil on: the investment market, and how local and overseas investors finance development in a volatile economy, the dangerous favela slums ...
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Helical uncorks Unwins disposal
Helical Bar has opted to offload 75 of the 96-strong portfolio of Unwins off-licences it acquired in early March at Allsop’s upcoming commercial property auctions.
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ProfessionalDiary of... a rent review surveyor
Simon Curtis, head of lease advisory at Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker, takes us through his week
