All Blogs articles – Page 14
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Landlords are hidden victims of housing benefit debacle
The current row over the housing benefit reforms has completely ignored the fate of a hidden group of victims – landlords letting property to tenants on benefits.
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Osborne bites head off VAT
The sight of Harriet Harperson jangling around like a coathangered scarecrow in a storm, accusing everyone of being ‘fig leaves’ was highly comical.
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How to handle your CGT bill
One of the biggest problems faced by property owners who want to take action ahead of the capital gains tax increase is that we do not even know from what date the new CGT rates will apply. There is a possibility that the increase may apply immediately from the date ...
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Property Trusts are beating Reits
They’re not the sexiest topic to write about, but property investment trusts are one of the most compelling investment cases in the world of listed property right now. Most are domiciled in Guernsey for tax reasons – prompting the monicker of GICs (Guernsey Investment Companies) – but they are ...
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Barrie blogs on new deal for PW fans
Last week I am proud to say our team was named the best in the business journalism world for our work online.
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Google launches property search in the UK
Google has launched a property search facility in the UK
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Google's new search engine. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Google, the world's favorite search engine, has in the past week announced the launch of its new search engine, which it is calling "Caffeine".
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England 10 - USA 1
by Doug Stevens, manager of the RICS England team and former Cambridge United player.
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Garden grab means it’s time to grab shares in the builders
The coalition government has been a “Nightmare on Elm Street” for Britain’s housebuilders. Public sector hand outs for housebuilders are being pared back, regional housing targets have been scrapped, and now the Con-Dems are trying to stop “garden grab”.
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The £10bn cost of unwinding swaps
Savills’ banking expert, William Newsom, this morning reiterated the view expressed in my last blog that it is the cost of unwinding interest rate swaps that is preventing the banks from putting properties on to the market.
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Car dealerships and management philosophies
Managing public expectations and separating the genuine from the fake
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Barrie blogs on 'two year coalition'
Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil set tongues wagging at today’s BPF conference by predicting that the Conservative-LibDem coalition is unlikely to last for more than two years. The first likely departure? Vince Cable.
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Will Tories kill off buy-to-let?
Buy-to-let investors have been thrown into panic by the widespread belief that the Con-Dem coalition government will more than double the tax on second homes in June’s emergency budget. Estate agents are reporting an exodus from the sector – but will it really happen? The Lib Dem’s pre-election manifesto proposed ...
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Barrie blogs on BCO London
Whether JP Morgan will move to Canary Wharf is the big thought in my mind as I travel from the BCO conference to our Property World Cup. The giant investment bank is either A) moving to Canary to its originally planned riverside site B) moving to Canary to occupy Lehman's ...
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HIP HIP AWAY
My first big surprise last week was the announcement that the government has finally abolished HIPs. I think that all residential agents have let out a huge sigh of relief that this useless bit of legislation has been done away with for good. I personally do not ...
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Science Fiction and Development
Well, the luminous green colour of our coalition Government is taking hold like a slime spreading across the Country in some science fiction movie. From every corner and area they appear to be tackling the problems and mire inherited from the “prudent” Scotsman – thank God he wasn’t reckless! Disappointingly, ...
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Maturing investment class in rude health
The maturing healthcare property market received a shot in the arm last week, with its investment practitioners gathering, appropriately, at the Royal College of Surgeons in central London for the annual IPD Healthcare Index results. First on the checklist was confirmation from IPD co-founding director Ian Cullen that ...
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Hawksworth's six-point plan for retail success
Capital Counties chief executive Ian Hawksworth gave a six point plan for success at today's London Retail Summit. The newest chief executive on the quoted Property company block explained his strategy, implemented at Covent Garden, at the Property Week event in the City today. His key messages to ...