All articles by Doug Morrison – Page 9
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Markets
Employment benefits
A report out this week calls for developers to help ease local unemployment.
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Online
Bovis secures new banking facility
Bovis Homes today announced that it has secured a new £220m banking facility until 2011, as predictions for the housing market get ever more gloomy.
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Markets
Leeds charity helps homeless renovate their future homes
Leeds-based charity Canopy takes a novel approach to the housing shortage: derelict properties for the homeless are renovated by the homeless
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Student halls make the grade for investors
While other sectors get bullied by the recession, student accommodation is on course for a first
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Campus Living moves into UK student halls
Australians pay Salford University £11m for 755 flats
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News
Sayonara, good times - as Japan slips into recession J-REITs hit buffers
As Japan slips into recession, the spectre of the ‘lost decade’ of the 1990s returns to haunt the property market. Doug Morrison reports from Tokyo
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Markets
New homes agency head promises seamless transfer
Sir Bob Kerslake pledges ‘really hard, tough effort’ at Thames Gateway Forum
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Markets
Wyatt paves green path for Thames Gateway
Quintain boss lays out sustainable recommendations in interim ‘green paper’
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Margaret Beckett to help ‘at risk’ Thames Gateway regeneration schemes
Beckett underlined the government’s commitment to the Thames Gateway and pledged to identify and help regeneration schemes that are at risk of stalling in the face of the economic slowdown.
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Markets
The US’s tax increment financing initiative may migrate to the UK
An American ‘spend now, tax later’ way of funding regeneration, pioneered by Barack Obama’s home state, is gaining supporters over here.
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Markets
Land values fall at their fastest rate for 30 years
Savills research show values have plummeted by a third in six months but have not reached nadir
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Markets
Barratt calls for government to release more London land
Brownfield sites could be used to ease capital’s housing shortage
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Markets
Second government survey finds home info packs lacking
Embarrassment as another government-commissioned survey finds confusion about HIPs
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Entente Accordial
Countryside’s residential scheme Accordia has disproved the theory that good design and high-density housing do not mix by scooping the 2008 Stirling Prize.
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Markets
Something old, something new
Cash-strapped councils are selling off buildings to fund regeneration and housing.
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Birmingham tops league for falling house prices
Northern city centre ‘hotspots’ also suffer from plummeting values
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All around the houses
As the ministerial housing merry-go-round spins again, the government’s 2 million new homes target looks even further out of reach.
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Online
Sale and rent back housing sector to be regulated
Rogue residential landlords who prey on vulnerable homeowners should be regulated, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) declared this week.