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by Mark Pawlowski. A tenant who wishes to qualify for protection under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 must bring his tenancy within the requirements of section…

by Tim Horsey. In 1987 the retail sector was not the worst performing for institutional property holders, just the least good.

by Bob McKenzie. The effects on offices of the new Use Classes Order, brought in last year, have been much discussed but little has been said about its impact on…

by Christine Woods. In the latter half of the 1970s an annual average of 50,000 acres of let land was purchased by institutional investors, reaching a peak of 61,000 acres…

The RICS House-buyer’s Report and Valuation and the ISVA Home-buyer’s Standard Valuation and Survey have been described as a halfway house, halfway that is between a mortgage valuation and a…

by Michael Capon. There has been much publicity and speculation about the effects of the simultaneous introduction on April 1 1990 of the new Revaluation Rating Assessments and the Uniform…

by Leslie Aarons. The cynic, according to Oscar Wilde, is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

by Alan Tate. In 1986 the chief planning inspector’s report set out the task of inspectors. That task was described as “to obtain the material necessary to make an informed…

by Tim Horsey. Even the most casual observer of the commercial property market does not need to be told that 1987 was an exceptional year.

by Rupert Nabarro. The fact that this is the year of the industrial property market makes the sector no easier to analyse than it ever was.

by Bill Reed. Estate agents and designers love to hate each other. Every review of an agency branch in a design magazine has a preamble about the misdemeanours of its…

Mineral valuation is a specialised field requiring detailed knowledge of minerals, their methods of extraction and markets, and, like most specialisms, there is a certain mystique attached to it, a…