CONTENTS
June 2009
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What the
Budget really
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8 NEWSbeat
What’s going on across the property industry – residential sales and
lettings, auctions, commercial and overseas.
12 Carry on crunching
Mortgages, their cost and availability are the key to recovery, it’s
generally agreed. So what’s happening? Andrea Kirkby surveys the
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major players in the market to see if lending is beginning to loosen up.
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Now the dust has settled around Alistair Darling, we take a close
look at what the April Budget really means for the property business,
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paying particular attention to Stamp Duty Land Tax.
18 PULSE: York
PULSE: PROPERTYdrum arrives at the beautiful walled city of York to see how
A grand day the property market is holding up against the financial siege. Lisa
out in York Crosby talks to the key property professionals in the area.
27 PR & Marketing
Danielle Simpson asks if we’re doing all we can to present our brands
in the best way – there’s more to it than fancy logos on Minis y’know.
RESidENTiaLsales
28 Student Housing
It’s come along way since Rick, Neil, Vyvyan and Mike were dodging
rent. And it could, in fact, be a significant growth area.
32 Light at the end of the tunnel COVER FEATURE
Well it might not be an oncoming train, but it could be a dead cat
bounce. Danielle Simpson listens to the experts’ analysis of what’s
really happening in property and draws some telling conclusions.
39 HiPs – Mike Ockenden speaks out
The Director General of AHIPP outlines the next steps for HIPS and
heralds the arrival of exchange-ready packs which, apparently, even
Shadow Minister for Housing Grant Shapps approves of!
40 The little known law of Chancel
You really should know all about this if you are marketing a property
near a church. You could land your client with a bill for a half a million.
Students – a new
force in property?
43 The Property Ombudsman
Christopher Hamer is now known as the The Property Ombudsman,
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reflecting a wider brief in the regulation of property matters. This
month he acknowledges market changes as letting disputes increase.
BBC
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4 june 2009 PROPERTYdrum
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