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Arbitration cases double in Dubai
Construction and property disputes in in Dubai more than doubled last year
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Increase in distressed sales
Ireland and the US will see the greatest rise in ‘distressed sales’ of property, according to RICS
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RICS global commercial comments
Agents’ city level comments from the RICS Global Commercial Property Survey Q1 2010
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Emergency Budget predictions
Many in the UK property sector are looking for guidance as to what they can expect to be announced on 22 June
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Pressures facing the public sector
In light of the UK Government’s spending cuts for urban regeneration, the public sector must prioritise its regeneration spending to engage the private sector
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Trees for New York City
In this video, the staff at RICS Americas plant 50 trees for New York City and discuss RICS’ approach to sustainability
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US architect demand rises
Demand for architects in the US rose to its highest level in two and a half years last month
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Housing starts at best level for two years
The latest UK house building data shows that the number of starts rose in the first three months of this year to the best level since the second quarter of 2008
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Bring real change to home buying process
HIPs have failed to address the significant problems in the home buying process they were originally supposed to tackle
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The strengths of sustainable fit-out
How the RICS Ska Rating environmental benchmarking and assessment tool is gaining increasing usage within the commercial real estate industry
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UK house prices start to fall
House prices in the UK fell for the first time in more than a year
According to Land Registry data, the average residential property dropped 0.2% in value during May, sparking concerns of a second downturn in the housing market.
The South East and London gained 0.9% and 0.7% respectively, however, industrial areas such as North Tyneside and Sheffield suffered declines of up to 1.5%.
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: “Housing market activity remains well below long-term norms despite edging up recently.
“The economic fundamentals of high unemployment, still falling full-time employment and low earnings growth are hardly ideal, a major fiscal squeeze is starting, credit conditions remain tight and house price-to-earnings ratios have moved back up.”
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