All articles by Doug Morrison – Page 10
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Markets
Wildheart rises from collapsed City Lofts’ ashes
City Lofts subsidiary Vivacity’s Simon Halls launches asset management business
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Markets
Crash investigator
Causes of the crash and hopes for recovery dominated debate among the 850 delegates at Property Week and the British Property Federation’s Resi 08. Doug Morrison reports. Photographs by Oliver Knight
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Markets
He’s coming to get you
As legislation giving consumers redress against cowboy agents comes into force, Doug Morrison asks whether a chance has been missed to address the cause, rather than symptoms, of the problem. Illustration by Shonagh Rae
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Markets
Savills: no housing recovery until 2011
Growing threat of recession could prolong misery, agent warns
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Insight
Lofts’ labours lost
City Lofts appears to be a classic case of buy-to-let boom and bust, hitting creditors such as Lehman Brothers and Sir Terence Conran. But it did not have to go under.
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Markets
Nice prepares for flotation
Nice Group has launched a novel solution to London’s housing shortage: accommodation on the Thames.
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Markets
Native lands funding for Albert Embankment
Bank of Scotland commits £56m for mixed-use scheme on south bank of the Thames
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Markets
A twisted logic
The property industry believes Treasury ‘tinkering’ is unlikely to help a market that is on the skids, as the RICS shows.
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Markets
Law Commission reforms hit ailing buy-to-let market
Proposed regulations could push up costs for investors
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Markets
Regeneration returns more vulnerable
IPD research suggests regeneration is ‘early warning sign’ for wider market
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Markets
Channel 4 documents makeover of Yorkshire town
Channel 4 took the property makeover concept to a new level when it filmed the regeneration of a Yorkshire town for a series that starts on Sunday.
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Markets
Charity begins with homes
Homelessness charity Broadway is offering private landlords a hassle-free way to help turn peoples’ lives around.
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Markets
Value of ‘outperforming’ rental sector tops £500bn
Sector beats all privately owned commercial property as rents are forecast to rise by up to 15%
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Markets
Tories aim to cut regional quangos’ planning powers
Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan plans to overhaul RDAs.
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Markets
Turner profit
Margate hopes the Turner Contemporary art gallery will transform the town. Doug Morrison reports on a guinea pig for Britain’s ailing seaside towns
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Online
Bovey and bank imagine future
Residential market downturn leads to review of Imagine Homes’ buy-to-let partnership
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Markets
Rural campaigners chip away at Flint’s eco-town proposals
Lobby group accuses housing minister of planning to create ‘car-dependent housing estates’
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News
City Lofts puts 250 unsold properties into receivership
LPA receiver appointed on five regional properties and Birmingham development site
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Markets
Living proof
Commercial developers have gone from feeling ‘stuck’ with residential to appreciating it for the value it can add.