All articles by Doug Morrison – Page 7
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RICS survey suggests further housing market weakness
Further signs of weakness in the house market emerged today with the latest RICS survey, which showed that new buyer enquiries dropped in October.
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Residential Land hires former Cluttons senior partner
Richard Cotton, the former senior partner at Cluttons, has been appointed as property director of Residential Land, central London’s largest private landlord.
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Partner to pick up baton from fainthearted banks
Mainstream banks may still baulk at the prospect of backing residential development. But their loss is others’ gain, particularly in central London, where demand outstrips supply and sterling’s weakness continues to attract overseas buyers
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Minister accuses landlords of "inflating prices"
The row between Lord Freud and the property industry over the coalition’s housing benefit cuts escalated today when the Minister for Welfare Reform accused residential landlords of “inflating their prices” for benefit claimants.
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Landlords accuse coalition of 'fiddling figures' on housing benefit
Residential landlords have accused the coalition’s Welfare Reform Minister Lord Freud of fiddling government figures to lay the blame for rising housing benefit bills at the doorstep of private sector investors.
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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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Housebuilders waiting for 'autumn uplift'
Housebuilders are still waiting for the traditional autumn uplift in the market to get development quotas back on track, according to the latest figures from the National House-Building Council (NHBC).
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Hamer hammers home importance of rogue agent regulation
In light of public sector cuts, ombudsman supports protection of private-rented tenants
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Ombudsman calls for consumer legislation to be extended to letting agents
The Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer today called for residential property letting agents to be brought under the same consumer redress law that governs sales agents.
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Property Standards Board throws in the towel
The Property Standards Board has thrown in the towel barely a year after it was launched to improve residential property and protect consumers from cowboy sales and letting agents.
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Residential rents hit record high
Residential rents exceeded their pre-downturn peak in September to hit a record high, according to the latest figures from LSL Property Services.
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HDG Mansur reaches out to Bristol market
The developer behind Finzels Reach, the 1m sq ft mixed-used scheme in Bristol, believes a dearth of new-build stock could help establish the area as a new “city quarter”
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London Assembly raises Olympics 2012 legacy concerns
The Olympic Park Legacy Company’s ability to maximise the economic benefits from the Olympic Park and the 2012 Games has been challenged by the London Assembly.
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Uncharted territory
Developer John Morris is considering legal action against the Royal Bank of Scotland for placing lavish stalled scheme Charters into administration
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Marathon investor could win gold
Olympic Delivery Authority offers long-term investors the chance to be part of a new city in east London
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Race for £500m Olympics partner
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is today due to launch a global search for a long-term partner willing to invest as much as £500m in the Olympic Village in Stratford, east London.
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Institutions ‘essential’ to residential investment
Wellcome Trust’s Pereira-Gray hammers home importance of overcoming “tricky” future for sector at RESI 10
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Clegg heeds RESI 10 calls for new finance model
Industry figures first to advocate tax-increment finance
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David Phillips tables furniture rental subsidiary
Furniture supplier founds rental arm to tap into period of austerity
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Hearthstone fires up £500m resi fund
Hearthstone Investments, a residential property fund management group formed last year, is planning a £500m fund aimed at institutions and individual investors.