All articles by Doug Morrison – Page 11
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News
Carsberg: regulate resi and overhaul home info packs
Consumer affairs champion’s attack of residential market highlights government failings
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Markets
Sale-and-rent-back companies are cashing in on homeowners’ woes
Our five-part series on the credit crunch concludes with a look at a sector benefiting from others’ hard times.
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Markets
Delph to pull out of central London in £150m flats sale
Firm will focus investment in new-build schemes in regional cities
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Delph tucks into Modus’s Friars Walk in Newport
Residential investment company pays £25m for housing element of developer’s mixed-use scheme
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Crossrail champion steps down
Last week the top job at the City of London corporation changed hands. Doug Morrison speaks to outgoing chairman Michael Snyder
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Markets
Yoo and me against the world
As if hitting Brazil, India and Macau was not enough for Yoo founder John Hitchcox, he is this month launching the company’s first all-rental project in New York and looking to raise £50m for a new fund.
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Markets
Singapore’s Frasers takes on McCabe’s Fairbriar stake
Scarborough edges further out of UK market with sale of controlling stake in housebuilder
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Markets
Launch of Zoopla aims to revolutionise online housebuying - Neighbourhood watch
A new website may satisfy the UK’s housebuying voyeurs.
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Great sprawl of china
Gordon Brown is watching China’s plans for a mammoth environmental project: the world’s first eco-city. Doug Morrison reports from Hong Kong
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Cardiff Bays
Regulator Sir Bryan Carsberg heard strong views on rogue estate agents as he conducts a nationwide tour on the subject. Doug Morrison was there.
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Markets
Resi faces hangover after ‘decade of debt’ boom …
Banks predict house price inflation to be wiped out for first time in 10 years
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Callcutt calls for public-private pacts to meet housing targets
Review says government housing targets can be met by ‘huge’ urban land supply
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Callcutt wants public-private pacts to meet housing targets
Review says government housing targets can be met by ‘huge’ urban land supply. A blueprint for speeding up the release of urban land for residential development was unveiled yesterday by John Callcutt in his government-commissioned review of housing delivery in England and Wales.
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Markets
‘High-risk’ Pathfinders’ effect unclear, reports watchdog
Housing problems less severe in housing renewal areas, but ‘other factors involved’, says audit office
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Markets
Time to loosen the Green Belt
Reports published last week predict a shortfall in projections for new housing, and with land for development scarce, Doug Morrison examines the future for a national icon
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Markets
Prestigious to save up for retirement with Plus listing
Retirement village specialist hopes to raise £5.9m on junior stock market
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Housing ‘off radar for young households’
Report calls on government to close widening affordability gap
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Sweet home chicago
An Irish developer’s launch of the tallest residential tower in the world shows US confidence despite market turmoil. Doug Morrison reports from the Windy City