Thursday 3 July 2008

Rental yields highest in over 2 years (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)



Landlords are having a good time of it at the moment as the current turmoil in the housing market pushes rental yields to their highest since February 2006.

Hedge funds seek to redress the balance - Wealth Bulletin

Hedge funds seek to redress the balance
Wealth Bulletin, UK - 21 hours ago
With the hedge fund industry hitching a ride on the institutional investment bandwagon, wealthy investors are discovering they have been left behind. ...


REITs dive after housebuilder capital warning - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : Commercial property shares slumped to a four-year low on Tuesday after cash-strapped housebuilder Taylor Wimpey said it had failed to raise the extra capital it needed. Analysts said the direct ramifications for the commercial property ...

Environmental & Energy (Mondaq)
What is this? In our last Alert we looked at how legislation is changing the way buildings are constructed, particularly in relation to the standards that are expected and the information that is to be provided about energy efficiency, for example the EPC requirement.

Icahn's Activist Funds' Slim Returns Supply Cause to Deactivate - Bloomberg

Icahn's Activist Funds' Slim Returns Supply Cause to Deactivate
Bloomberg - 6 hours ago
By Katherine Burton His $7.9 billion in hedge funds fell 7 percent between October and April, the biggest peak-to-trough loss since the funds opened in ...

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