All Property Week articles in 29 October 2010 – Page 5
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Professional
Solicitors confounded by flaky lending and fake vendors
The messageSolicitors can be the victims of fraud on lenders.The caseThe High Court has had to decide whether solicitors should bear the whole loss suffered by a negligent lender who is defrauded by the borrower (Lloyds TSB bank v Markandan & Uddin, 14.10.10).In 2007, Victor Davies applied for a mortgage ...
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Professional
Professional Conferences row with RICS
Dispute centres on the RICS’s decision to limit access to its members list
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Insight
Comprehensive Spending Review creates dog-eat-dog retail world
Last week, the government set out how it intends to clear the national debt within one parliamentary term.
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Insight
Lap dancing clubs stripped of their rights
The fear of sex comes into this. People think, ’Oh my god, people are taking their clothes off in there.’ So what? More sexual activity happens in a regular nightclub than in a girl club.”
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Markets
Wait ends for click and collect
John Lewis has rolled out its “click and collect” service at 21 Waitrose branches, allowing customers to collect items bought at johnlewis.com
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Markets
London Rental Housing Company targets ‘sandwich class’
The idea of build-to-let as one way of boosting the private-rented sector has been around for years without ever being taken up wholeheartedly. But one entrepreneur believes he can succeed where others have failed
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News
Henderson in play for half of Westfield’s Stratford City
Westfield is in talks to sell a 50% stake in the £1.5bn Stratford City shopping centre close to the 2012 Olympics
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News
Sainsbury’s and Cineworld set up shop in Hinckley
Sainsbury’s and Cineworld have signed up to anchor the Crescent, an £80m retail-led scheme in Hinckley town centre, Leicestershire
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News
Trafford three pop up for Christmas
Three Christmas pop-up shops are to open at the Trafford Centre in Manchester
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Markets
Choppy waters for Lakeside
Plans to extend Thurrock’s Lakeside shopping centre and its surrounding retail parks could face delays as a result of the abolition of 500 quangos, including Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation, announced earlier this month
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News
One New Change opens
Land Securities’ One New Change retail-led scheme in the City of London opened for business yesterday
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Insight
CB Richard Ellis tops table in strong third quarter
Third-quarter investment figures from Property Data show a strong year-on-year performance so far, defying predictions that the second half would bring a slowdown in deals
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News
Revealed: Carlyle’s plans for Halabi’s half-dozen
More than £670m. The biggest UK property acquisition since 2007. A very distressed seller
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Professional
Higher education can only reduce carbon with an increase in funding
Property directors in higher education have been watching the fallout from the spending review as closely as anyoneView from the RICS Roger Bond
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News
Rowan buys out German partner
UK-based fund manager Rowan has bought out the partner in its German asset management business
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News
Israeli group buys Kallakis offices
Two properties formerly owned by Achilleas Kallakis’s Pacific Group of Companies that were bought by Green Property have been placed under offer this week
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Markets
Lifetime Homes are not built to endure change
Last week’s Comprehensive Spending Review removed the assumption of “a council house for life”. It also draws attention to the types of housing needed
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News
Brum crap speaker
When picking an after-dinner speaker, the last thing you want to happen is for them to end up “doing a Ratner”.
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News
British Land joins race for City skyline
British Land this week revealed it had entered a 50:50 joint venture with Oxford Properties to kickstart its £480m “Cheesegrater” tower in the City of London
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Professional
Cushman takes BREEAM In Use to tenants
Tenants in buildings managed by Cushman & Wakefield will soon be getting a call as part of the second phase of its strategy to cut energy use