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Hot property? Prime key property index 2014
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Knight Frank has published its annual Prime Ski Property Index. Comparing 20 of the world’s top ski resorts, the report looks at which locations have recorded the strongest price growth in the year to June 2014.
Freeing housing associations: Better financing, more homes
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Housing associations are being stifled by unnecessary red tape that prevents them from building 100,000 new homes a year, according to a new report from the Policy Exchange. England’s 1,500 housing associations are currently bound by multiple rules and regulations which prevent them from choosing their own social tenants. Under a radical new plan proposed in the paper, housing associations could “opt-out” of their historical government grant which binds them to these rules. A new category of what the report calls ‘Free Housing Associations’, would buy out their historical grant from the government at a discounted cost in return for the removal of regulatory restrictions.
Heritage counts 2014
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Heritage Counts is an annual survey of the state of England’s historic environment, produced by English Heritage on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum. It aims to provide historic environment professionals and those interested in the historic environment with the information and data required to make decisions and influence policy about the historic environment. It will also allow them to make the case for heritage. Each year Heritage Counts explores the social and economic role of the historic environment and focuses on a different theme. The theme for 2014 is the value and impact of heritage. There is a national report as well as nine regional reports and a number of research reports undertaken each year to support the Heritage Counts theme.
Expanding airport capacity: Competition and connectivity. The case of Gatwick and Heathrow
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The International Transport Forum has published a report which examines the likely responses from airlines in all segments of the market: the local hub carrier, BA, other network airlines, short and long haul low-cost carriers and charter airlines to proposals from the Airports Commission on expanding the UK’s long-term aviation capacity. It identifies the main drivers of airline behaviour and considers the possible influence of changes to existing business models and the introduction of new types of aircraft, such as the Boeing Dreamliner and Airbus A350. The report develops six sets of responses, three following expansion of Gatwick and three following expansion of Heathrow, to test the likely evolution of the market. As the future of the highly dynamic aviation market is uncertain, it checks the resilience of each across five different scenarios of how the global aviation sector may develop in the future. The analysis maps the implications for connectivity and potential benefits to the consumer through airline competition and relieving congestion at airports and reducing the associated economic rents. This report is part of the International Transport Forum’s Country Specific Policy Analysis (CSPA) series. These are topical studies on specific transport policy issues of concern to a country carried out by ITF on request.
Travel Trade Gazette
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The issue of Travel Trade Gazette for 13 November 2014 is available online.
Disasters and ecosystems free online course
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), through its Global Universities Partnership on Environment for Sustainability (GUPES), and Cologne University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Germany, has launched the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate. The MOOC is an outcome of the long-standing collaboration between UNEP and the Center for Natural Resources and Development, a consortium of 11 universities from around the world that is coordinated by CUAS. The free course, due to start in January 2015, will cover the following topics: Disaster trends and statistics; Fundamentals of disaster risk reduction; Climate change, disasters, and environmental linkages; Tools for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation; and Global, national and local processes of disaster risk reduction. The course will be delivered through a series of lectures and case studies, along with substantial additional study materials provided to the students. Lectures will be available through videos as well as online documents, and will be geared for students who may not have access to high speed internet so they can also follow the course. Registration for the course is now open.
Spatial analytical approaches in public bicycle sharing programs
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With the current diversity in the sizes, spatial configurations and situational contexts in which public bicycle sharing programs have been implemented, the papers in this special issue of the Journal of Transport Geography (Vol. 41, December 2014) draw on a select set of international case studies to examine various dimensions of their underlying dynamics. Examples include London, Lyon, Montreal, Melbourne, Brisbane and Kitakyushu City, Japan.
UK offshore wind: Opportunities for trade and investment
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A guide introducing UK offshore wind to investors and suppliers entering the sector and exporting from the UK.
Real Estate Gazette
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The latest issue of DLA Piper’s Real Estate Finance examines the key drivers for international real estate finance.
REALWORLD
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REALWORLD is a comparison tool for the real estate industry that answers questions clients will typically have when entering new jurisdictions. The site covers questions related to sale and purchase, real estate finance, leases, construction, planning and zoning, real estate taxes and corporate vehicles. It allows the user to compare issues in any two different countries to help evaluate the options.
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