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The future of Private Finance Initiative
Posted on: 4 July 2013
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This report presents a timely and credible evidence base to enable RICS to inform and guide members and other key stakeholder groupings on the challenges and opportunities afforded by Private Public Partnerships.
Searching for investment: Insurers as lenders
Posted on: 3 July 2013
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the likely size and impact of the growing involvement by insurance groups in UK lending markets and the effect, specifically, on the commercial real estate market.
First steps to home ownership in London
Posted on: 3 July 2013
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FIRST STEPS is the official intermediate housing programme from the Mayor of London helping low and modest income Londoners to buy or rent at a price they can afford. On this site you can find all the FIRST STEPS properties in one place.
Building an effective safety net for home owners and the housing market
Posted on: 2 July 2013
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This new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation evaluates the options for market and policy reform to provide an effective safety net for individual home-owners and for the UK housing market as a whole.
Investing in the High Street: Town centre investment management and its role in delivering change
Posted on: 27 June 2013
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Town Centre Investment Management is a new way to halt and reverse the decline of British Town Centres, using a version of CPO powers. The new approach seeks to bring investment back into town centres through the application of compulsory purchase powers in a new way to allow for joined up investment management. The thinking is summarised and presented in a paper published for consideration and consultation with the Retail industry.
An investigation into the relationship between land administration and economic development
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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Land administration theory asserts that land administration activities support the economic, social and environmental development of a country. In this research, the national land titling programme of Thailand was studied as a successful example of this process and the surveying settlement programme in Bangladesh was selected as a detailed comparative case study of a village in the Gharinda Union.
Rebalancing the housing and mortgage markets: critical issues
Posted on: 14 June 2013
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This report, produced for the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association, aims to review the complex and important issues around the future of the UK housing and mortgage markets, and to raise questions about the unintended (or at least unacknowledged) implications of the new regulatory regimes. It is hoped the paper will contribute to a much needed debate about the government and industry objectives for the future of the UK housing and mortgage markets, and the measures required if those objectives are to be met.
One size does not fit all: Diverse opportunities in London’s rental market
Posted on: 14 June 2013
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Almost half of London’s population now rents their property compared to a national average of 30%, according to a new independent research paper written by Professor Michael Ball, University of Reading, for property consultants Cluttons. The report, shows that in volume terms, there has been an 80% increase in the number of private tenancies over the last decade, with most of the increase occurring since 2005.
Estates Gazette London
Posted on: 11 June 2013
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This edition of EG London looks at how the central London office market is performing, lifting the lid on the strength of demand and supply of stock.
Climate change adaptation and the rental sector. Rental housing, climate change and adaptive capacity: a case study of Newcastle, NSW
Posted on: 7 June 2013
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Research into adaptation and the rented housing sector in Australia has recommended that incentives, education and government support are necessary to enable the rented housing sector to be better adapted. The research also addressed issues relating to equity, specifically the adaptive capacity of low-income tenants in both public and private sectors.
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