Features
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The functions and organisation of estate management in local government
What are the factors influencing the approach of local government to estate management?. There are various levels of property-owning authority in local government; metropolitan and London boroughs, who are responsible…
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Building societies enter the market
by Stephen Dilworth. Do you remember a time when we all knew how the mortgage market worked? If you wanted a loan on a pleasant semi-detached house you went to…
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The office sector in 1988
by Tim Horsey. This is the final article in a series of four in which IPD review the full results of their Databank on property performance and investment behaviour in…
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VAT on commercial development
by Robert Maas. Now that the Government has been persuaded to drop its Finance Bill proposals on close investment companies perhaps the property industry can be persuaded to take a…
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Residential tenancies — recent developments II
by Delyth Williams. In the concluding half of this article Delyth Williams discusses the problems of, among other things, obtaining possession and rent registration and concludes with cases concerning the…
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The industrial market: the soundest base?
by Tony Key. The industrial market has ridden a dramatic switchback in the 1980s, from one of the deepest recessions in Britain’s manufacturing on record in the early 1980s to…
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Design glossary for the B1 era
by Anthony Salata. Now, when even banks and insurance companies work from business parks, one can be sure that a basic change has taken place in the business property market.
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Retention of title clauses
How far is it possible for a supplier of goods to protect himself against the insolvency of his purchaser by making use of a “retention of title” clause in the…
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Residential tenancies — recent developments 1
by Delyth Williams. In the last 12 months or so over 30 interesting cases have been reported in Estates Gazette on the topic of residential tenancies, encompassing the Rent Act…
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The retail sector in 1988
by Tim Horsey. Investment returns in the retail sector have been overshadowed by those on offices and industrials over the last two years.
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So we’ve found another Roman palace
by Tony Gregory. In January, York’s archaeology hit the headlines with the discovery of what might be the site of a Roman imperial palace on the Queens Hotel site; unknown…
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The too hasty retreat from agriculture?
by Rupert Nabarro and Christine Woods. Remember how the institutions were taking over British agriculture? Remember the threat they posed to the rural way of life? Remember the weighty Northfield…