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Meanwhile... housing market gets gloomier over the pond
If the RICS housing market survey has failed to provide enough gloom, here's the story from across the Atlantic. Foreclosures (repossessions) in March up 57% on the same month a year ago, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties.RealtyTrac also suggests that things are so bad that more ...
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Worst housing market figures we've recorded, says RICS
The latest poll of estate agents by the surveyors body RICS produced the gloomiest set of figures on house price falls in the poll's 30 year history.According to the latest monthly RICS housing market survey, the seasonally adjusted figure for the difference between the proportion of agents seeing house price ...
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NewsThe Weekly Green Gauge 11 April 2008
A US-themed Green Gauge this week, with the country belching CO2 and Ted Turner belching hyperbole
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NewsScaling the summit of Stevenage
Storm clouds gather as workers continue their latest attempt on the north face of the timber frame mountain
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NewsErinaceous goes into administration
Company is unable to reach agreement with lenders and creditors over possible rescue package
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Why SWMPs are a wasted opportunity
New site waste management plans will help cut waste on larger sites but will do little to target the biggest wasters of them all, flytippers
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NewsJohn Laing announces strong year despite PFI slowdown
First financial statement since going private shows good performance despite slowdown in main sector
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NewsForeign Office Architects to design new Euston Station
Allies and Morrison will also be retained to masterplan 15-acre Euston site
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Teesside bricklayer dies at Corus steel plant
Investigation under way into death during nighttime maintenance work for Vesuvius UK
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NewsBono prepares to face planners over £120m Foster hotel
U2 frontman will appear before officials to seek permission to start building Clarence hotel extension
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HBOS backs £80m Catesby plan for brownfield housing
Bank gives financial backing to venture investing in housing-led schemes for South-eastern brownfield sites
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Old and new on Design for London shortlist
Acme and Mae alongside Foster and Grimshaw on LDA list
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NewsRedlands Primary School conversion
Construction Excellence surveys the school which has taken sustainable steps including water harvesting wind turbines
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NewsArchitects question Building Regulation changes
Government reforms to building regs are not "holistic" claim RIBA and Charterd Institute of Architectural Technologists
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BRE working with Chinese government
The Watford-based research firm will open a Beijing office at the end of the year
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High Court battle over work on Rotherhithe Tunnel
Roofing and cladding company taken to court to enforce adjudication decision
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NewsHow to be an environmental performance assessor
Any building that’s built, sold or rented will soon have to be energy rated. That means a lot of assessments
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Ove Arup sued over motor garage cracked floor
Engineer accused of negligence after cracks appeared in ground slab causing over £700k of damage
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NewsDanger man
Thanks to Youy Wong for taking his camera to work and snapping these pictures of a “window cleaner perched on top of the sloping roof without hard hat, harness or any safety equipment. Tut-tut”.
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FeaturesHow to make your fortune quantity surveying
With skilled staff in short supply, QS firms are jostling to offer the most attractive corporate structures to their employees. From traditional partnerships to limited companies, Mark Leftly runs through the risks of each model and weighs these against their potential to make you a packet