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Archive for April, 2008

The France Show London Olympia 18 - 20 January

International Property Show Knutsford Tatton Park 2 - 3 February

The Dutch Property Investor Show Amsterdam The Amsterdam RAI, Holland 22 - 24 February

Emigrates Edinburgh Edinburgh Royal Highland Centre 23 - 24 February

A Place In The Sun Manchester Manchester Central (formerly GMEX) 29 [...]

According to homemove, Figures from the Land Registry show that the annual rate of house price growth in England and Wales has slowed for the seventh consecutive month.But not include in London property price.
The average house price is now £184,798 and the annual increase was 3.6% in March compared with 5.3% in February.
The survey by [...]

Here is a conundrum to test those who think they know what is going on in the London property market: an estate agent has two houses for sale, both fine examples of thatched New Forest cottages, both beautifully restored and put on the market at a similar price, at roughly the same time. One is [...]

You’ve got the handbag, the sunglasses and a wardrobe full of the designer clothes. You might even own a piece from the furniture range. But would you want to live in a home entirely designed and branded by Versace? That’s what the fashion house is hoping. It will open a hotel in Dubai in June [...]

Staying in is set to become the new going out as we draw in our horns while the credit crunch blows over. Nearly three quarters of households say they are planning to cut their spending. The study from Axa found that three quarters of households with a total income of £30,000 or higher will be [...]

London & Stamford, the property fund management business set up by serial entrepreneurs Patrick Vaughan and Raymond Mould, has raised a further £200m from unnamed Middle Eastern investors.
The additional equity takes the total spending power of the newly listed company to around £1bn, a combination of the £285m the pair raised when they floated their [...]

LONDON—The London-based Property Federation has accused the U.K. government of failing to adequately invest in flood defenses and called on it to take responsibility for flood defense to avert the risk of future floods.
“The government promised over many years to adequately fund flood defenses and has failed to do so. There is clear evidence that [...]

East Soho
Bounded by New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and St Giles High Street, this uninviting patch of the West End is to be reinvented as East Soho, bringing designer homes and offices to a district that is 15 per cent cheaper than neighbouring Bloomsbury and Covent Garden.
City Road Basin
In Islington, the triangle formed by [...]

Annual house price inflation in England and Wales has slowed to its lowest level since mid-2005 as April suffered its first month-on-month fall in asking prices in six years.
According to figures by Rightmove, the property website, the annual rate of asking-price increases slowed to 1.3 per cent in April, down from 5 per cent in [...]

The commercial property sector in the West End of London will suffer much less in the current downturn because it is in better shape to deal with the situation, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has forecast.
Rics senior economist Oliver Gilmartin said the signs showed that the West End was in a far better [...]