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What are Housing Associations and what role do they play in the modern law of public sector housing?. The Housing Act 1985 was a major attempt at the consolidation of…

Fiona Sweeney. Black Monday, October 19, will be engraved on the minds of equity fund managers for some time to come.

Alan Buckett. In the previous article (July 27 1985 p 331) Alan Buckett explained the importance of the Tribunal decision in the case of Great Shelford Free Church v The…

Delyth Williams. The annual updating round is with us again and since the last update appeared in Estates Gazette, at (1987) 281 EG 1422, at least 28 cases have been…

Peter Kempster. With commercial developments growing larger in scale and rents climbing higher, the question of who can afford to own such valuable capital assets inevitably occurs.

John E Moore and Graham Vivian. The Landlord and Tenant Act, which received the Royal Assent on May 15 1987, was rushed through its last stages so that it became…

Peter Sargent. Whatever your architectural tastes you should find something to appeal to them in the Horton Plaza, San Diego’s unusual downtown shopping development which opened two years ago.

Jack Rose. Leaving aside political reasons as an excuse for a change in local taxation, the present objective of defraying certain expenditure by collecting a tax based on property values…

To what extent, if any, does the modern law of town and country planning control the demolition of buildings?. The question of whether demolition falls within the statutory definition of…

by Denis Hall. Public-sector valuers are everywhere — deep in the countryside evaluating sites of special or scientific interest, discussing assessments with dissatisfied ratepayers and valuing every non-domestic property in…

Norman Bowie. It does not seem so long ago that some of the market players were bemoaning the fact that they found it difficult, if not impossible, to secure long-term…

Stephen Battersby. The United Kingdom, as a member of the European Community, will be obliged to implement Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and…