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James Furber. Home Office figures show that local authority fire brigades attended 447,000 fires in 1984. While the total of deaths caused by these fires was at its lowest level…

Would you please outline the proposals for the reform of the rating system contained in the recent Green Paper: Paying for Local Government?.

Norman Bowie. Few would question that housing is the most distorted market of any commodity in the UK — although that for basic agricultural produce, such as cereals and dairy…

What can you use a DBMS for? Some advantages. The value of a truly relational DBMS package is its flexibility, and once a surveyor has decided to computerise, the advantages…

Please would you explain what microcomputer databases are, and how they can help the value?. As Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge itself is power”, and it is a short step to…

Survey assumptions. The PMA/PAI Property Survey, first carried out in December 1981, now covers some 80 centres throughout the UK excluding London.(*) The current survey is based on information collected…

Please explain why valuers using the hardcore, or term and reversion method, after their rates to reflect “secure” tranches of income.

18 Housing and Building Control Act 1984. This Act deals with two (virtually unconnected) problems. Part I concerns the disposal of public sector dwellings and the rights of secure tenants.

Norman Bowie. It is now clear that the great bull market in investment property came to a sudden end in the closing weeks of 1973.

1 Administration of Justice Act 1985. This Act (like its predecessors of the same name) is an assortment of legislative changes to the legal system.

Please explain the difference between an insurance valuation and the depreciated replacement cost basis of valuation (DRC). Insurance valuations are far more complex than imagined by many students.

Peter Evans. Regular statistics from the Government give some idea as to the pattern of institutional investment. They have, over the years, provided a useful insight into the policies of…