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  • Richard Donnell, director of research, Hometrack
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    Give first-time buyers a leg up

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The shortage of one- and two-bedroom homes has driven up prices, to everybody’s detriment

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    Gleeson Building’s £16m hotel is first development project

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Gleeson Building has won its first development project, a £16m hotel in Luton.

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    Zaha’s magnum Opus

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Zaha Hadid has unveiled this design for Opus, a £235m development in Dubai’s Business Bay for Omniyat Properties.

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    Foster’s Faustino pact

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    This winery, designed by Foster + Partners, is under construction in the Ribera del Duero wine region in the north of Spain.

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    Accounts reveal scale of problems at Wembley subcontractor

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Pre-tax profit at Wembley M&E contractor Phoenix Electrical fell 60% in 2006, its penultimate year on the stadium, according to figures published this week.

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    Metronet set to axe 490 staff

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Metronet, the PPP London Underground consortium that includes Atkins and Balfour Beatty, is to make almost 300 of its full-time staff redundant

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    CSCS in row with CITB over smartcard plan

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    CITB–ConstructionSkills and CSCS are in a contractual stand-off over the introduction of smart card technology to the industry’s skills card scheme.

  • An artist’s impression of what the Cutty Sark would have looked like after it had been restored
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    Counting the cost

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    It is not yet known to what extent Monday’s fire at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, south-east London will set back the 19th century ship’s £25m restoration.

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    Erinaceous jumps 7% after Tchenguiz approach

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Erinaceous saw its share price climb 7% this week as a takeover approach from Vincent Tchenguiz, brother of the Iranian millionaire Robert, signalled a potential bidding war over the property services company.

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    Flat of the land

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Land Securities is releasing the second phase of its Princesshay apartment scheme in Exeter.

  • Features

    Climbdown

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The government’s 10-year plan to introduce Home Information Packs has collapsed less than 10 days away from implementation. Emily Wright reports on what went wrong, and what will happen next

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    Homes warning

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    A Sustainable Development Commission report has found that the rush to build 200,000 units a year is leading to poorly designed homes, with too few transport links, parks and community centres.

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    Buy-to-let boom

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Fears that borrowing costs might deter buy-to-let investors lack substance, a survey by Paragon Mortgages has claimed.

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    Persimmon buy

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Persimmon Homes has bought a two-acre site at Navenby, near Peterborough, in Lincolnshire.

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    Lovell regeneration

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Lovell has started on site on the second phase of a £170m regeneration programme at Camp Hill, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

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    Room at the top

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Webb has been appointed chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).

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    Demand slackens

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The rise in mortgage lending slackened slightly in April, according to figures from the British Bankers Association.

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    Fewer PFI deals

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    PFI construction is projected to decline from £8.6bn last year to £3.9bn in 2011 with fewer but larger deals, says a report by research company Market and Business Development.

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    British Land buoyant

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    British Land has reported a 13% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £257m in full-year results.

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    Growth in China

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Consultant EC Harris has appointed Simon Baxter to head its mainland China arm, as part of growth across property asset sectors.