Samantha Lyster
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MarketsDerby council plans 3,000-capacity venue to replace Assembly Rooms
In 2014, Derby’s main performance venue, the Assembly Rooms, was engulfed in a huge fire that tore through the brutalist 1970s building.
InsightEuropean market: logistics in Pole position
With its rising GDP and cheap skilled labour force, central and eastern Europe is fast becoming the location of choice for logistics operations.
MarketsGiving up the gavel: are sellers ready to go online-only?
Online-only auctions of homes have been growing - can this success be replicated in the commercial market?
MarketsSecondary shopping centres can offer great returns – but creative management is paramount
With a cheery wave, the statue of beloved comedian Eric Morecambe keeps a twinkling eye over the English seaside town that shares his surname.
MarketsTrampoline parks bouncing into the UK
Trampoline parks are already big news in America, but the trend has yet to catch on in the UK. That could change as a growing number of operators seek sites across the country.
- Insight
The countryside is closed. Or is it?
Not all country businesses are suffering. We report on several companies that have seen profits increase
- Insight
Goodnight Mayfair
Is Hanover Square too grand for surveying firms? Low West End vacancy rates and spiralling rents are giving agents headaches about the future of their own headquarters.
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Cleaning agents
A planned EU directive will force property agents, including those in small firms, to appoint a staff member to report suspected money launderers to the National Criminal Intelligence Service.
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Search on for king of new Elephant & Castle
In June, Southwark Council asked 12 consortia to suggest an outline brief for the 69ha (170 acre) site. However, following various amalgamations and withdrawals, this number has now been reduced.
- Insight
The best of both worlds
Compulsory competitive tendering was laid to rest last month as the Local Government Act ushered in a new era of 'best value'. This report asks what, if anything, best value means for property managers in local authorities and how it will affect their relationship with the private sector
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Housing group with no home
Ann Tetherick set up Living Over The Shops in 1989 to bring together retail property directors and landlords so that they could agree to residential use for the upper floors.
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Firms lobby lenders in new sponsorship drive
The shortage has arisen because most lenders will not use newly qualified surveyors to carry out mortgage valuations.
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Grand central
Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are now the leading destinations for developers wanting exposure to emerging European markets. In the concluding part of our series, the property market in these nations are examined
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Rent reductions loom over London landlords
A deluge of reports published last week will bring little comfort to landlords who have used cheap money from buy-to-let mortgages to get into the sector.
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Retailers to expand as Gas leaves high street
Centrica, which lost £33m last year when the former British Gas showrooms failed to trade well, called in Chesterton to dispose of all 243 prime high street shops and retail warehouses.
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Lettings market needs urgent financial legislation, says MP
Howard Flight, Conservative MP for Arundel and South Downs, who is also opposition Treasury spokesman on financial regulation, gained a first reading for his Property Letting Agents (Client Money Segregation) Bill in the Commons last week.
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Door still open for out-of-town developments
DTZ Pieda Consulting have analysed planning decisions between June 1998 and last May, to discover that inspectors forbade 14 new edge or out-of-town superstores, but allowed eight.
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Counter signs
Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s, the aristocracy of UK retail, aren’t the only shops to have had a hard time in the last year. Now on-line database FOCUS reveals a slowdown in demand for space. This report explains why the retailers’ honeymoon period is over
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Dixons uses the carrot approach to disposals
Dixons’ agent, Conrad Ritblat, has found an unusual way of identifying the surplus shops. It took advantage of the FA Cup weekend by sending retail agents a leather football inscribed with the names of the shops. However, this strategy was very nearly an own goal for Dixons, as the footballs, ...
