Estates Gazette
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Union Hanover plans Scotland hotel
Union Hanover has lodged plans for a 180-bedroom, £35m waterside hotel in Edinburgh
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Mount Anvil sells Eagle House
DTZ Investment Management has bought Eagle House, E1, from Mount Anvil for £29m
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Retirement home shortage ‘chronic’
Britain is suffering from a chronic lack of purpose-built retirement housing, according to Knight Frank
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Picton wins Westlea go-ahead
Picton has received the green light to develop a retail and residential scheme at its Westlea Campus in Swindon
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Inland Homes survives JR
A judicial review into the MoD’s decision to sell the Wilton Park site in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, to Inland Homes has been withdrawn
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DevSec sells Romford scheme
Development Securities has completed a sale of its majority interest in Market Place in Romford, Essex for £12.3m
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Promises to remedy defects in work will not entitle landlords to recover the full cost of the work. The defects should be remedied first
In Nogueira v Westminster City Council [2014] UKUT 327 (LC); [2014] PLSCS 272 the Upper Tribunal had to consider whether tenants were liable to pay the full cost of work,…
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An occupier may be liable for business rates even though it needs to carry out essential work before it can use premises for the purposes of its business
The litigation in R3 Products Ltd v Salt [2014] UKUT 333 (LC; [2014] PLSCS 269 concerned premises that were let to a tenant that wanted to use them to convert…
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Documents that have not been properly executed are susceptible to challenge
One of the requirements of the Law of Property Act 1925 is that conveyances – which include mortgages, charges and leases for terms of more than three years – must…
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Deals – 11 October 2014
Landesbank sells 1 Crown Court Crown Court Property London, a special purpose vehicle controlled by Landesbank Berlin, has sold 1 Crown Court, EC2, to a private Asian client of Priority…
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UK CRE is in a bubble
Bubbles, crashes and financial crises have been recurring phenomena in financial markets from their inception up to and including the current moment. However, the ferociousness and velocity of potential contagion…
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Editor’s comment – 11 October 2014
Flick through the prime minister and chancellor’s photo album and staged snap after staged snap will reinforce the message that they both “get” business