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A hint of comfort in the icy housing market
If you take an optimistic view of life you may find some comfort in the latest housing market survey from the surveyors' body RICS.For pessimists there remains plenty of scope for concern.A glimmer of hope can be found in the fact that the survey found that in some regions there ...
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Could anyone have seen this coming? Well, yes actually
Normality is finally being rewritten - the world is waking up to the fact that the past decade or so was extraordinary and bred extraordinary folly.Accompanying this awakening I hear the phrase "no one could have seen this coming" so often of late. I may have used the phrase myself.So, ...
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Future market expects a near 40% fall in house prices
The futures market has unsurprisingly taken an even darker view of house prices over the past month as the Tradition Future HPI latest figures show.The market now puts the peak to trough fall in the average house price at 38% (as measured on the Halifax non-seasonally adjusted index). And this ...
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CommentPre-action protocol: How not to impress a judge
The pre-action protocol is a simple, practical measure that鈥檚 meant to save money and keep you lot out of court. So don鈥檛 go getting too clever about it
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Relocation, relocation
The increase in Middle East-related articles has been fantastic, and uncannily timely for me, given that I am looking to relocate to Abu Dhabi. However, I am not sure where you obtained your rental prices from, as your figure of 拢18,000, or 120,000 dirhams, per year is way off the ...
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CommentBlowing in the wind
Alistair Darling鈥檚 efforts to resuscitate Britain鈥檚 financial services sector seem, for the moment at least, to have worked.
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CommentFanning the flames
What is it with the media that it has to mention that there was wood in a building that caught fire and/or that it was 鈥渢imber framed鈥� (鈥淔ire in Bath鈥�, 26 September, page 9)?
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Adjudication to recover fees: Wishing you a speedy recovery
Consultants should be aware of the full range of tools at their disposal for recovering their fees. Adjudication offers a possible alternative to traditional methods
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CommentShe鈥檚 so out of here!
Wow! What a legacy! Just before crazy, wacky housing minister Caroline Flint got reshuffled, Chris Addison was passed another of her memos. And it makes one thing clear: Margaret Beckett has a tough act to follow 鈥�
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Faber Maunsell
Chosen watering hole: Ye Olde Mitre,聽Ambience: Tucked-away 16th-century hidey hole, Topics: Beer, pubs, pub games, the difficulty of remembering nursery rhymes,聽Drinks drunk: 9 pints of Adnams, 10 pints of Oakhams, 2 pints of Deuchars IPA, 7 pints of Exmoor gold
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CommentMy digital life: Philippe Rapin
Despite teaching other people how to escape from the digital world, Philippe Rapin likes a bit of Wii, Facebook, and is a veritable eBay wheeler-dealer
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CommentThis is no time to think short-term
Sooner or later the market will come back and when it does we鈥檒l be needing young talent. So keep hiring, says Richard Steer, otherwise we鈥檒l lose another generation of professionals
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CommentWebmaster review: Benoy website
International architect Benoy鈥檚 website, Benoy.com, does the job well but has one rather surprising feature
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Join my Hub
In reference to your article 鈥淥FT clears housebuilders 鈥� but raises zero-carbon fears鈥� (26 September, page 11), while it is true that zero carbon could potentially prove a barrier for small housebuilders, we strongly believe it is also an opportunity.
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Government Gamesmanship
Before Peter Whitbread condemns the whole Olympic team for what he says is a budget overrun of 拢90m on the media centre (26 September, page 34), he should be aware of government budgetary practice. I will try to put the whole process in context.
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Any answers?
Is there someone out there, perhaps a genius in 鈥減rice indexing鈥� , who might be able to help me with this pricing exercise:
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Extension of time: Birmingham council vs Paddison Construction
Birmingham council (鈥淏CC鈥�) engaged Paddison Construction (鈥淧addison鈥�) to undertake construction work for a new community and training centre in Birmingham. The contract provided for a completion date of 24 February 2006 which was revised to 17 April 2006. Practical completion was certified as at 23 June 2006. Paddison alleged that ...
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Construction faces a worse recession than in the 1990s, says forecast
My good friend Martin Hewes passed me a copy of the latest forecast from Hewes & Associates. It's not good news, I'm afraid. His last forecast was pretty bleak, this is bleaker still.The headline figure of note is the 11.3% drop in new work next year. With a slightly more ...