Property Forecast

Alex Neal of Colliers CRE explains why the Government has decided to allow the time limits for planning permission to be extended

Lawrence Telford, director of Coffer Corporate Leisure, gives a round-up of prospects in the leisure property sector, which has suffered more than most in the current recession.

The government and the commercial property sector both must look harder at the needs of businesses, argues Mark Dixon, founder and CEO of Regus

Despite reports of house price increases in certain areas it is taking many sellers a long time to dispose of their property by the normal agency route, resulting in many resorting to alternative sales methods

David Brown, commercial director of residential property services company LSL Property Services plc points out that a return of the Business Expansion Scheme (BES) could make a vital difference to housing provision in the future

An overview of demergers under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986, and some practical considerations for a company undertaking a section 110 liquidation scheme

With credit hard to come by Middle East money is going to have an increasingly important role to play in the UK and European property industry over the next year

Well it is all very simple. We have had two years of hell in the property industry and it is time for an upturn.

Are commercial green leases the answer to a sustainable future?

Office occupier take-up in central Bristol in 2008 totalled almost 610,000 sq ft, below the 10-year average of 690,000 sq ft

Here Alan Patterson, head of research & strategy, Europe & Asia at AXA Real Estate IM looks at prospects for the commercial market and property stocks

Office markets in Europe may not be in danger of suffering from as much excess space as was once feared if findings from NB Real Estate are correct

Latest results from Knight Frank’s Global House Price Index show that values increased in almost half of the locations reporting price changes for the second quarter of 2009

The National Landlords’s Association has claimed that millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being wasted by a new method of paying housing benefit, the Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

The upturn in residential market sentiment has been reflected by an increase in the sales rate at London auctions