Friday 10th July 2009

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The British Journal of Real Estate Development and Property Management. In this issue we deliver the latest property news alongside exclusive extracts from the Property Boom. Plus the usual expert opinion, information on regeneration, regional developments, property management and environmental issues.
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Regional roundup

News in Brief

Bank of Essex to challenge high street brands

Councillors in Essex have released plans to create their own bank, in a bid to ease local companies'...

Blackpool regeneration given go ahead

Blackpool Council has given the go ahead for a £220m regeneration scheme to transform the town centr...

Union Square, Swindon

Swindon's regeneration plans are picking up pace with a Jury's Hotel due to open in May and planning...

Thames Gateway, London

London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDDC) plans to transform its district into a vibran...

Magazine Articles

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
Greener, sustainable buildings

News in Depth

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 ...

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Barclays Local Business Marketing

Fraser MacKay, Head of Local Business Marketing, Barclays, on the commercial mortgage market

The Final Word

UK mortgage plan won't end credit famine

The Bank of England has agreed to swap at least £50bn of banks' risky mortgage and other assets for easy to liquidate government debt, its latest and most radical attempt to break the back of the cred...


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