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Home sellers push up asking prices
The latest figures from the property website Rightmove suggest that sellers are feeling a bit more confident and are pushing up their asking prices.Rightmove puts the 1.8% rise in asking prices in April on top of the 0.9% rise in March down to the normal spring bounce. But the chances ...
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NewsBole vs Huntsbuild and Money: Defective Premises Act 1972
Fenwick Elliott discusses a case involving a house in Cambridgeshire
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FeaturesBluffer's guide to Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2009
What you need to know to survive this year's event
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FeaturesCityscape warm-up: Ken Shuttleworth
The founder of architect Make tells Building why he’ll be in Abu Dhabi next week and what he’s got planned
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CommentPuzzling arithmetic: Joint liability
If two parties are jointly responsible for damage, who pays, and how much? The answer to this question is often surprising (and dismaying) for one of the parties …
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CommentThe special ones
We know designers are a great bunch because they keep telling us so. In the first of seven articles about the seven deadly sins of architecture
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NewsStyles & Wood enters crunch talks with investors
Cheshire fit-out firm woos turnaround specialists as it races to bolster balance sheet
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NewsTolent’s profit slumps 80%
Developer was hit by property writedowns and loss on a Sheffield residential scheme
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CommentWatch out for the tentacles: Defective Premises Act
Are you familiar with the Defective Premises Act? You’re not? Oh dear … well before you do any work on a house, you really ought to read the following horror story
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CommentOutrageous fortune
To make it as an architect you have to be prepared to endure long periods of evil luck as you wait for the phone call that will turn everything around …
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NewsCommercial drought forces Keltbray to plan redundancies
Groundwork and demolition specialist Keltbray has said it will be forced to lay off staff as medium-sized commercial jobs dry up
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NewsContractor is thrown off Viñoly’s visual arts centre
Colchester council removes Banner Holdings from £26m project, but faces law suit for contract breach
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News2012 media centre kicks off one month early
Structure is last of the main five Olympic venues to get started
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NewsEast London housing scheme set to start
Former hospital site will include 950 homes, of which 50% will be affordable
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NewsHomes with negative equity hits 900,000
Council of Mortgage Lenders says negative equity is contributing to fall in property sales
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How to recognise a consultant
A basic point to specify when appointing a consultant is what they will actually be doing. Here’s a handy guide to the behaviour of the most common species
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FeaturesWork like an Egyptian: Egypt's construction opportunities
Mummies, pyramids, chaos, gastroenteritis – dump this list of Egyptian clichés and focus instead on its construction boom. Sophie Griffiths went there to find out more …
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NewsVerry drafts in director to sort out pay row
Verry Construction has brought in an operations director to sort out payments to subcontractors after a series of complaints over late payments and unpaid debts
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NewsDocklands Light Railway to get £18.2m upgrade
Capacity of Beckton route of London train to rise 50% in time for 2012 Olympics
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News£50m Liverpool building submitted for planning permission
18-storey tower, designed by Broadway Malyan, will attempt to win tenants from relocation of government offices