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Foundations for recovery: can the construction industry green build itself out of the recession?
The UK construction industry is experiencing the worst slump in decades and it's not over yet. So is green building the answer to its woes? Louise Bateman reports.
CBRE Investors launches prop. fund for UK pension investors Reuters 10.03.2010 | Property: Get ready for the triple dipDavid Campbell City Wire 10.03.2010 |
 LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - CBRE Investors (CBG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said it has launched a fund targeting mainly UK Defined Contribution (DC) pension investors, aiming to buy 1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) of British commercial property in the long-term. |  UK property is likely to enter an unprecedented triple dip through 2011, say some of the sector’s leading managers and advisers, although the 2010 outlook has been upgraded. The total return is likely to halve to 6.6% between 2010/11, with capital values falling 1.5%, respondents told the Investment Property Forum’s long-term trend Consensus Forecast |
Countrywide expands into luxury property The Negotiator 10.03.2010 | What the king & queen of buy-to-let can tell us about UK house pricesJohn Stepek MoneyWeek 09.03.2010 |
 Countrywide plans to conquer the luxury property market after snapping up an exclusive agreement to expand the property franchise network of auction giant Sotheby’s. |  Fergus and Judith Wilson, a couple of maths teachers from Kent, became the unlikely pin-ups of the buy-to-let industry during the property boom years. |
Brooklands hotel opens on site of UK’s earliest motor-racing trackJanet Harmer caterersearch.com 09.03.2010 | UK retail investors pile into property Wealth Bulletin 09.03.2010 |
 With the world’s most historic motor racing track running through its reception, the 120-bedroom Brooklands hotel in Weybridge, Surrey, has finally opened its doors this week. |  UK retail investors put £1.8bn (€2bn) into investment funds in January, the highest amount ever for the first month of a year, with continued enthusiasm for property funds fuelling the record inflows. |
Buyers yet to warm to green home buzzGerard Wynn Reuters 08.03.2010 | City of London Developers Start Skyscrapers as Rents End SlideChris Bourke Bloomberg News 08.03.2010 |
 LONDON, March 5 (Reuters Life!) – The building industry wants to ease green home standards as the public balk at the 20 percent or higher costs of low-carbon homes, exhibitors told a major London conference this week. |  March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brookfield Asset Management Inc., owner of a stake in the U.K.’s tallest building, is about to start constructing an even higher tower in the City of London. |
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