All articles by Samantha Partington – Page 17
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Online
Get Living’s second London BTR scheme set to launch
Get Living’s second London build-to-rent scheme on a 1.25 acre site in Elephant and Castle is nearing completion, and apartments will be available to rent from September.
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Let councils borrow to build quality new homes, urges LGA
Councils must be allowed to borrow money to build quality homes, according to the Local Government Authority (LGA).
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News
Call Off Duty: harmful effects of stamp duty revealed
Fresh evidence has emerged of the damaging effects of stamp duty on the housing market - lending further weight to Property Week ’s Call Off Duty campaign.
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News
Private student digs set to top uni-owned
Privately owned, purpose-built student accommodation is set to top university-owned housing in total value by the end of 2017.
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Indian investment in prime central London housing overtakes Middle East
A growing number of wealthy Indian investors are flocking to central London’s prime residential market, overtaking the number of sales made to Middle Eastern buyers, research has found.
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Rents rise in private rental market as stamp duty pressures hit London
Residential rental growth in the capital turned positive in July for the first time in eight months as the stamp duty levy on investment properties caused the stock of homes available to tenants to shrink.
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Oxfordshire garden town wins £6.2m government cash injection
South Oxfordshire council has received a £6.2m government windfall to accelerate the delivery of more than 15,000 homes in Didcot garden town.
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Kevin McCloud's HAB Housing gets go ahead for first project in Bristol
HAB Housing, the development company founded by Kevin McCloud, has secured planning permission to build 161 sustainable homes in Southmead, Bristol.
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Crossrail 2 levy must not “push developments over the line”, says BFF
Sadiq Khan’s plans to raise £4.5bn to fund the development of Crossrail 2 through an infrastructure levy must not “push developments over the line” and make them unviable, the British Property Federation (BPF) has warned.
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Plans unveiled for £100m Wembley Park mixed-use student village
Cole Waterhouse has revealed plans for a £100m student village close to Wembley Stadium to house and support students of UCFB, the specialist sports university.
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Insight
Estate agents hit hard by market slowdown
Countrywide and Foxtons’ bleak half-yearly results last week show the extent to which traditional high-street estate agents are struggling in the face of the slowdown in the housing market and the growing online threat.
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Quintain secures £65m government loan
Quintain’s build-to-rent (BTR) development in Wembley Park has received a £65m boost from the government’s £3bn Home Building Fund.
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£12m redevelopment of Haverfordwest gets green light
Fairacre Property has been given the green light to proceed with a £12m redevelopment of Haverfordwest town centre which will deliver new food, retail and leisure outlets.
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Brennan rejoins CBRE London occupier team
CBRE has hired Nick Brennan as director of its London Advisory and Transaction Occupier team.