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London: The capital in focus
Posted on: 18 April 2013
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The latest supplement from Estates Gazette on the London property market.
Addressing obsolescence: Office Market Review 2013
Posted on: 18 April 2013
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This review of the office market from Lambert Smith Hampton also considers means of addressing obsolescence. There is also a link to the industry and logistics market.
Commercial awareness in real estate graduates
Posted on: 10 April 2013
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The research evaluates how and to what extent real estate courses equip graduates with commercial awareness. The research gathered the views of UK academics, practitioners and students on commercial awareness in order to develop the commercial awareness taxonomy. Register to view this document.
How to improve engagement between landlords and occupiers
Posted on: 8 April 2013
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In this video, Justin Snoxall, head of the business group at British Land and chairman of the Better Buildings Partnership’s Green Building Management Working Group, suggests some tips on how to successfully open up the lines of communication between landlord and occupiers.
Conservation Covenants
Posted on: 4 April 2013
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A conservation covenant is a voluntary agreement between a landowner and responsible body (charity, public body or local/central Government) to do or not do something on their land for a conservation purpose. This might be, for example, an agreement to maintain a woodland and allow public access to it, or to refrain from using certain pesticides on native vegetation. These agreements are long lasting and continue after the landowner has parted with the land, ensuring that its conservation value is protected for the public benefit. Conservation covenants are used in many other jurisdictions, but do not exist in the law of England and Wales. Instead, landowners and responsible bodies are relying on complex and expensive legal workarounds, or the limited number of existing statutory covenants that enable certain covenants to be enforced by specified bodies (for example, the National Trust). The Law Commission has published a consultation document on this issue and welcomes comments by 21 June 2013.
Converting London’s offices to residential: housing solution or commercial disaster?
Posted on: 3 April 2013
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The UK Government wants to make it easier to convert offices to residential use without full planning permission to help solve London’s housing shortage. However, it runs the risk of simply turning valuable commercial space into more empty houses owned by foreign millionaires. The author of this article discusses these issues.
Europe Real Estate 2013
Posted on: 3 April 2013
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A pan-European reference guide to commercial property.
The future of high streets
Posted on: 27 March 2013
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This short report summarises the progress made on high streets to date, including achievements from the last year, and sets out what’s next for high streets.
The New Homes Bonus
Posted on: 27 March 2013
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The Department for Communities and Local Government is not adequately monitoring the £1.3 billion New Homes Bonus paid to local authorities up to 2013-14 according to a report from the National Audit Office. Although it is too early for the scheme to have had a discernible influence on the number of new homes, the NAO adds that the financial risk to some local authorities is substantial because of the redistributive nature of the scheme. The Department has plans to carry out a review of the New Homes Bonus during 2013-14, but has not decided upon its scope or methodology. The National Audit Office has called the review of the scheme essential, and for it to be carried out urgently.
RFP (Real Estate, Facilities, Projects) Magazine
Posted on: 26 March 2013
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The first edition of RFP Magazine was launched in 2004 to fill a gap in the market for quality, independent information for corporate real estate, facilities and project managers in Asia. It has grown to become the leading publication for property, buildings and design professionals across the region with a growing international readership in Europe, the Middle East, USA and especially Australia. The RFP stable of magazines editions is the premier information resource for built environment issues in Asia Pacific. They provide up-to-date editorial content for real estate, buildings and design professionals as well as interested members of the wider business community and general public. There are two titles: Asia’s first magazine for green buildings and eco-cities, RFP EcoBuild Magazine, and RFP Office Space Magazine, which gives readers information on the corporate market across the region. Look out for the soon to be re-launched builtechmagazine.com.
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