Features

by Professor J E Adams. Numerous commentators have agreed that the associated company exemption provides an avoidance device to circumvent Part I of the 1987 Act.

by Bill Deddis and Stanley McGreal. This article summarises the findings of a research investigation(1) into urban regeneration initiatives in Great Britain.

by Martin Edwards. It would be surprising if the recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Regina v Kuxhaus [8] 2 PLR 59 was greeted with anything but concern…

by Norman Bowie. We are beginning to hear from the Government about the challenges we in the UK can expect when the EEC becomes a single market in 1992.

by Stephen Greenbury. A great deal of nonsense is talked about the influence the revolution in technology is having, and will have, on our buildings.

Inheritance tax, the most recent of the capital taxes, has its origins in estate duty, first introduced in 1894. Under the original provisions tax was payable on the value of…

by Brian Hill. The institution of a nationally determined non-domestic rate on April 1 1990 forms a significant and important part of the Government’s plans to reform, in a radical…

by Philip Lemanski and Paul Gillett. “Computers sell houses” is the kind of controversial comment that causes howls of derision in the average estate agency office.

by Reginald Judkins. Property developers are often dissatisfied with normal competitive tendering procedures using the “lump sum” standard form of contract with bills of quantities, a method which tempts contractors…

by Robert Lewis. “But the planning officer told me it would be all right!” — famous last words or a legal defence?.

by Brian Hill. The most publicised and controversial of the proposals by the Government for the radical reform of local government finance in this country is the substitution of community…

by Rachael Unsworth and Tony Sweeney. After a protracted appeal process, it has been determined that Brook House, 113 Park Lane, cannot continue in office use after 1990.