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Prospects still gloomy in construction Print E-mail
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00
Construction levels were broadly flat during the third quarter of this year, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Construction Market Survey.
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Rival to Conveyancing Quality Scheme launched Print E-mail
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00
A rival to the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme is being launched by the Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC).  To be introduced next year, the SLC Quality Assured scheme aims to crack down on mortgage fraud and has been developed with the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).
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Huge fall in new affordable housing construction Print E-mail
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00
The number of affordable homes being built has fallen 96% compared with the same period last year, new statistics from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) show.  Just 454 affordable houses were started in the six months to 30 September 2011, compared with more than 13,000 in same period last year.
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Tenancies: a degree of certainty required? Print E-mail
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00
A recent Supreme Court decision underlines the importance of the written agreement and reveals how the judiciary will interpret the written document as refl ecting the intention of the parties. Gemma de Cordova reports

In November 2011 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Cooperative Limited [2011] UKSC 52. The case concerned the determination of an “occupancy agreement”.
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Last orders Print E-mail
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00
Will the government call time on restrictive covenants on pub use? Andrew Francis investigates

The public house has a special place in the heart of the British public. George Orwell depicted the ideal public house (The Moon Under Water) as one possessing certain qualities such as one where it is quiet enough to talk and “if anyone knows of a pub that has draught stout, open fi res, cheap meals, a garden, motherly barmaids and no radio, I should be glad to hear of it, even though its name were something as prosaic as the Red Lion or the Railway Arms.”
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