Budget 2009: Sustainable solutions or a green smokescreen?

In April, Chancellor Alistair Darling made history by delivering the world's first 'green' Budget. Sarah Speight asks: were his measures as sustainable as they were cracked up to be?

Spin is the name of the game

Twisting the facts seems to be very popular right now with wild claims that the credit market is loosening. Yet the reality is that cash is still being sat on to shore up banking balance sheets. Only a few banks, when push comes to shove, are lending because the investment criteria are so prohibitive

Reviving commercial property stocks?

Chris Hossain, Senior Sales Manager at ODL Securities gives us a risk assessment of commercial property investment, walking with caution may be more astute than walking unafraid but volatility isn't necessarily bad

Designing sustainable buildings

The UK government has committed to reducing carbon emissions by at least 60 percent by 2050. Alistair Guthrie, Global Buildings Sustainable Business Network Leader for Arup, looks at making sustainability a core part of building design

Transport improvements on track

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has published a 
document which shows that residents and commuters 
will benefit from the major London 2012 transport projects as early as 2010 The plans are outlined in “pace”, the second in a series of progress reports on 2012 transport planning, whi...

Fair value no defence for falling UK property market

The downturn in UK commercial property still has further to run despite prices being at or close to so-called fair value and cheap compared with other European markets Having overshot on the upside, British commercial real estate prices are likely to overshoot on the downside."We're head...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Simon Roberts, South Buckinghamshire's experienced arm of the property market brings together the market activities over the last year and how these endeavours will shape the future of the property industry in 2009 2008 saw residential property values tumbling and the usual volumes of “discretionary movers” exercise that ...