Hopes vanish for commercial property recovery (Interactive Investor)

Fri 05 Sep, 2008 11:48
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Frustrated sellers and cautious buyers boost home rent market (Daily Mail)
The slump in the housing market is forcing frustrated homeowners to put their properties up for rent rather than sell them at a massive discount.
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Tesco sells 13 stores and a depot for £600m to fund expansion plans (Guardian Unlimited)
Supermarket agrees sale to raise more than £600m to fund growth
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Crisis? What crisis? - Guardian Unlimited
Mainly, right now, it's just a forest of figures: 12% wiped off property prices in a year; new mortgage approvals down by 71%; house sales at a 30-year-low; bank lending to ...
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Carry on renting

The buy-to-let sector has come in for some considerable criticism in recent times, with one major area of attention b...
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The awareness is growing of discrepancies between house price indices
Following my last blog entry on the rather worryingly large differences between different house price indices ranging...
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Fertile ground in France
One of the reasons France may be such a popular property market for Britons, be they looking for a second home, a pla...
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Brightoning up
When it comes to property investment, those who may think of buying property may have two questions just now. One is ...
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France stays steady
Yesterday's Knight Frank survey of property prices around the world certainly made for interesting reading as...
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Brightoning up

When it comes to property investment, those who may think of buying property may have two questions just now. One is ...
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Nick Robinson's Newslog - bbc
This was not the much hailed government economic recovery plan. It will not affect whether the OECD was right today to predict a recession by the year's end. It will, therefore ...
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Hopes vanish for commercial property recovery - MSN UK News
LONDON (Reuters) - Property fund managers and analysts have written off all hope of a British commercial real estate recovery in the next year-and-a-half, consensus data showed on ...
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Tesco sells 13 stores and a depot for £600m to fund expansion plans (Guardian Unlimited)

Supermarket agrees sale to raise more than £600m to fund growth
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Housing chief calls for loosening of green belt - Edinburgh News
THE head of one of Scotland's leading house-builders has called for a redrawing of Edinburgh's green belt to accommodate "sensible" development. Gerry More, managing director of ...
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Agency's regional power nine revealed - InsideHousing
The nine power players who will help decide where the Homes and Communities Agency spends its multibillion pound budget were unveiled this week. Picked from a wide variety of ...
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Swiss to lower tax burden for hedge funds - Reuters

Swiss to lower tax burden for hedge funds Reuters - Sep 5, 2008 ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland plans to ease the tax burden for hedge funds and private equity funds and soften regulations for investment funds in a first ... SWX: Dialogue On Switzerland’s Financial Centre: Promoting ... Exchange News Direct Switzerland eyes tax break for hedge fund managers International Herald Tribune Swiss target alternatives business ICFA Online all 13 news articles

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Goldman fund-of-hedge funds July returns down - Reuters

Goldman fund-of-hedge funds July returns down Reuters - Sep 4, 2008 NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners LLC, an investment fund comprised by five other hedge funds, fell in value by 2.6 percent in ...

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Ways forward in Cyprus

It is widely agreed that the advantages of investing in property in Cyprus are numerous; the large English expatriate...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-08-29 09:43 Babis Vovos H1 net asset value per share after tax rises 4.7 pct (Interactive Investor)
ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Babis Vovos International Construction SA (BVIC) said its first-half net asset value (NAV) per share after deferred tax rose 4.7 percent year on year.
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Tesco sells 13 stores and a depot for £600m to fund expansion plans (Guardian Unlimited)
Supermarket agrees sale to raise more than £600m to fund growth
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Not crunched in Cyprus
The findings of the recent Knight Frank global survey of property trends suggested, on the basis of bare figures, tha...
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Hedge Funds Get Rattled As Investors Seek Exits - Wall Street Journal

Hedge Funds Get Rattled As Investors Seek Exits
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
Funds-of-funds select hedge funds on behalf of pension funds, wealthy individuals or other investors, and charge a layer of fees on top of the hefty fees ...
Some Lehman hedge funds post losses in July Reuters
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Commodities bubble burns big investment funds The Associated Press
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Goldman fund-of-hedge funds July returns down - Reuters

Goldman fund-of-hedge funds July returns down Reuters - Sep 4, 2008 NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Partners LLC, an investment fund comprised by five other hedge funds, fell in value by 2.6 percent in ...

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Hedge funds ready to blow as positions liquidated - The Australian

Hedge funds ready to blow as positions liquidated The Australian, Australia - 18 hours ago DEBT-GORGED hedge funds are the next ticking bomb in the global credit crisis as they liquidate their positions in equities and commodities ahead of an ... Dow Falls 344.65 As Hedge Funds Wall Street Journal Hedge Funds Are Getting Their Butts Kicked Too Seeking Alpha Where there’s smoke lately, there’s usually fire. FOXBusiness Financial-Planning.com - FINalternatives all 25 news articles

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Private placements market turns smaller, slower â€" but hedge funds ... - IFR Asia

HedgeWeek

Private placements market turns smaller, slower â€" but hedge funds ... IFR Asia, UK - 9 hours ago Hedge funds are also getting more comfortable with taking control positions in companies, yet more evidence of the convergence of activity between private ... TriAlpha fund of hedge funds approved for distribution in Singapore HedgeWeek all 2 news articles

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Housing chief calls for loosening of green belt - Edinburgh News
THE head of one of Scotland's leading house-builders has called for a redrawing of Edinburgh's green belt to accommodate "sensible" development. Gerry More, managing director of ...
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Isle of Wight: Pan Regeneration Project - Isle of Wight County Press

A NEW housing development that will provide more than 1,000 energy efficient homes in Newport is poised to progress. Despite the credit crunch, which has led to a dramatic slowing ...
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Nationwide house price figures highlight the growing divergence of mortgage-related data from the Land Registry actual data
The real truth about house prices is out there but not on the front page of your daily newspaper, unless it is the FT...
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Suspense over as suspension starts
This week has seen investors, housebuyers and every other stakeholder in the property industry waiting with baited br...
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Beyond the base rate
Today, as expected, the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) announced for the fifth month in a ...
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Location, location, regeneration
For those seeking good places to invest in property, some of the recent economic news may have seemed somewhat gloomy...
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