Hannah Emanuel
Contact info
- Tel:
- 020 7921 8597
- Email:
- hemanuel@cmpi.biz
- Professional
A template for town centres
What makes good city centre retail? Government design watchdog CABE has some ideas.
- Professional
Palace coup
Two property industry veterans are at the centre of plans to restore King George III's country home at Kew to its 19th century glory.
- Insight
Southwark stands accused
Two former nightclub owners blame Southwark council for forcing them out of business. Now the Fraud Squad is investigating.
- Professional
Going down?
The methods used to design lift systems in offices are unreliable and out of date.
- Professional
No longer carved in stone
The Planning Bill promised radical reform, but have successive defeats in the House of Lords blunted its impact?
- Professional
A day’s work in the witness box
Mark Jansen meets a surveyor who relishes his appearances in court as an expert witness. ...
- Professional
A gap in the marketing
Landlord and tenants still disagree over service charges for promotion. A newly published guide could help them find some common ground.
- Professional
Occupiers stay on top
The latest Total Office Costs survey, produced by Actium Consult and Cass Business School, shows that occupiers still have the upper hand, as rent-free periods lengthen.
- Professional
Rebirth of the Royal Albert Hall
The £70m refurbishment of the Royal Albert Hall has provided a lesson in how high-profile restorations should be done.
- Professional
Rating's famous four
Questions about new business rate bills, transitional relief, appeals and the spectre of local business rates dominated this week's national conference of rating surveyors.
- Professional
The test is yet to come
Mark Jansen previews the big issues that will affect professional surveyors this year
- Professional
Welcome to the new era
The Stamp Duty Land Tax is now upon us. Mark Jansen looks at how property owners will be affected by the attempt to close off tax loopholes
- Professional
Trouble in the aisles
A court battle between Safeway and Legal & General reflects the struggle between supermarkets and landlords over whether premiums count as rent.
- Professional
Getting the measure of market value
Delegates at next week's RICS valuation conference will have to get to grips with three big issues: the meaning of market value, the new International Accounting Standards, and complying with the Carsberg rules.
- Professional
It's not just black and white
A black quantity surveyor claims he has been discriminated against by local authorities and the property industry. The national press claims he is abusing the employment tribunals system, wasting money and harassing employers
- Online
Savills shares rise 5% on 2002 results
Shares in Savills, the quoted international property adviser, rose almost 5% in early trading this morning after it reported a 14% rise in recurring pretax profits to £24.7m for the year ending 31 December 2002.
ProfessionalMaking Cannes work
Is next week's MIPIM property show in Cannes a serious place to do business?
ProfessionalKeeping under cover
Surveying firms have reported rises in professional indemnity insurance of 100%, 200% or even 300% and are having to adopt imaginative strategies to absorb the increases.
ProfessionalCleaning up Europe
A tough EU directive to stop money laundering will put property professionals across Europe on alert. But surveyors and estate agents in the UK will be relatively unaffected.
- Online
Tesco moves on Streatham mixed-use scheme
Tesco Stores Ltd has submitted a detailed planning application to the London Borough of Lambeth for redevelopment of Streatham ice rink and adjoining lands.
