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  • Stamp duty not "fit for purpose": Rics

    04/07/2008

    Residential stamp duty is "no longer fit for purpose", the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) warned this morning (1 July). The institution claimed the cur...view full story

  • Housing slump finally easing, say surveyors

    17/06/2008

    A new study by chartered surveyors across the region is reporting signs that the fall in house prices is slowing down.
    Chartered surveyors in Devon and Cornwall sa...view full story

  • RICS simplifies surveyor appointment process

    10/06/2008

    Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is looking to simplify and improve the process of appointing a surveyor with the introduction of its new suite of appointm...view full story

  • Prizes for top Welsh sites

    09/06/2008

    A church restoration project and a new bus interchange are among the five winners of the RICS (The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Wales awards 2008.
    The...view full story

  • Home Information Packs are adding to the housing crisis

    05/06/2008

    Home Information Packs are adding to the housing crisis by imposing extra costs on buyers, the Conservatives have warned. The dossiers, which all vendors must now compil...view full story

  • Don't let fears of the credit crunch put you off buy-to-let

    05/06/2008

    People who have only recently bought a buy-to-let property or have been thinking of becoming a buy-to-let landlord may be having second thoughts about whether this is lik...view full story

  • Aberdeen University adds planning courses

    05/06/2008

    The University of Aberdeen has launched two further postgraduate programmes in planning and surveying in response to increasing demand for skilled planning professionals....view full story

  • Buy to let reaping benefits of market downturn

    29/05/2008

    Buy to let is reaping the benefits from the latest slump in property sales, according to a survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
    The sur...view full story

  • Top praise for Chester building restoration firm

    29/05/2008

    A Chester bases company has been praised for its work in restoring a landmark city building.
    Hodkinson Mallinson Ltd, chartered building surveyors of Hoole, have j...view full story

  • DREI Holds Talks with Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

    12/05/2008

    Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), Managing Director Salem Alshafiei, recently met with David Tuffin, President of the UK-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ...view full story

  • DREI Holds Talks with Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

    12/05/2008

    Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), Managing Director Salem Alshafiei, recently met with David Tuffin, President of the UK-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ...view full story

  • Owners try again to reopen quarry

    06/05/2008

    Efforts to re-open a Victorian quarry in Thornton have been renewed after planning permission was refused over concerns about noise and a high number of lorry movements a...view full story

  • Building up the case for brickwork

    01/05/2008

    The off-site lobby has had a field day lately, portraying brick as expensive and brickwork as a dying art. It's wrong on both counts as a report by the Royal Institute of...view full story

  • Surveyors firm acquired

    18/04/2008

    Eddisons, one of the North's leading firms of chartered surveyors, which was founded in Bradford in 1844, has been acquired in a management buy-out by two of its senior d...view full story

  • Girl's piece of old Rome delights the experts

    15/04/2008

    A young archaeologist from Bolton has made a discovery which has excited experts.
    Sarah Duffy, aged 22, who grew up in Bolton Lancashire, discovered a Roman altar ...view full story

  • Eco-town experts named today

    09/04/2008

    A panel of a dozen experts who will oversee the creation of Britain’s new 'eco-towns' will be announced today. Up to 100,000 homes will be built to environmentally ...view full story

  • Experts plan World Heritage bid

    03/04/2008

    A meeting is to be held in County Durham as the race to become a World Heritage Site heats up.
    The twin Anglo-Saxon monasteries of Wearmouth-Jarrow, classed as one...view full story

  • Buyers will need to feel right at home with new reports

    01/04/2008

    Scotlands home owners have seen house prices increase steadily over the past few months, bucking the UK trend and outperforming London's property market.
    Prices ha...view full story

  • Survey reveals 47% of solicitors’ instructions for HIPs come directly from sellers

    19/03/2008

    Key findings of SearchFlow and Law Society survey shows solicitors are taking the initiative in HIP market. SearchFlow (www.searchfl...view full story

  • Safety fears may halt green stadium

    19/03/2008

    Plans to install a 360 foot wind turbine at Eastlands stadium Manchester, home to Manchester City and the site of the 2008 UEFA Cup final, may be halted due to safety fea...view full story

  • Expert rejects end of European property boom

    18/03/2008

    Last week, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) published a review of the European property market and claimed that it was unlikely that house prices would...view full story

  • Scots house prices buck national trend, say surveyors

    17/03/2008

    Scottish house prices are bucking the national trend as surveyors in England and Wales report falling housing prices by the worst margin since the market crashed in 1990,...view full story

  • Mortgage approvals hit nine-year low

    12/03/2008

    Gloom about the housing market deepened today as monthly mortgage approvals hit a nine-year low.
    The Council of Mortgage Lenders said approvals for new loans to bu...view full story

  • 800 year old cellar 'found' under Berlin car park

    31/01/2008

    A team of experts has unearthed an 800-year-old cellar under a central Berlin car park which they say dates the city back to the 12th century, earlier than previously tho...view full story

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