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1st November 2019
Living Wall for Team London Bridge and Better Bankside
Posted by Scotscape
This 76m2 living wall has been installed as part of a series of interventions that are part of the Borough High Street Low Emission Neighbourhood initiative led by Team London Bridge and Better Bankside, supported by the Mayor of London.
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1st November 2019
Planning House- 'Box Park' Planning Success
Posted by Planning House
Planning House are delighted to announce that they have secured planning approval for the creation of a ‘box park’ within an existing retail and leisure park, offering smaller retail units to the existing offer at Teesbay for our client Mason Partners.
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1st November 2019
How can my property top up my income in retirement?
David Forsdyke, Later Life Finance expert, explains why Equity Release is increasingly becoming part of retirement planningIn 2017 Opinium reported the average size of pension savings was just £28,000. I doubt it has improved much since then, and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that isn’t going to last long for the average person. So where is the rest of this ‘average’ person’s retirement income going to come from?
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1st November 2019
Foundation recruitment- Some of our Testimonials
Shaunagh and the team at Foundation Recruitment gained a full understanding of our business and the recruitment brief for the role. This ensured that only competently matched candidates were being sent to the interview stage of the recruitment process. This allowed my team to concentrate on core business activity with the knowledge that we would be interviewing pre-vetted candidates who had been duly matched for the role.
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1st November 2019
Hybrid Legal Limited - Hoot Marketing
Sue Wills and Niamh Cullen are the founders of Hoot Marketing, a specialist marketing agency which helps businesses communicate more effectively with brand story telling.We caught up with Sue to find out more about her journey in business so far. Here’s what she had to say:
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1st November 2019
Architecture and the digital world
Bouncing around the office and the industry there’s a plethora of acronyms and buzz words – VR (Virtual Reality), digital fabrication and the big one – BIM (Building Information Modelling), to name a few. So we wanted to share our take on digitalisation a
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1st November 2019
South Coast developer exit
South Coast developer exit.When a developer needs to exit their development finance, an agreed exit is a useful tool. It not only extends the term to sell the remaining units, it can quite often release funds to be used on other projects so that they are not constantly “stop-starting”
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1st November 2019
Commercial bridge
Commercial bridge.Introduced by a large accountancy firm, their client needed to purchase an office block for £5m within 30 days of exchange.
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1st November 2019
£20m Revolving Credit Facility
£20m Revolving Credit Facility.A business with £150m turnover which is traditionally a construction contractor now wants to purchase their own land to develop, requested a Revolving Credit Facility (RCF)
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1st November 2019
Refurb facility
Refurb facility.Developer requiring funds to convert a pub into 3 townhouses with a GDV of £1m.
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1st November 2019
New-Build Checklist for Housing Developers
Posted by Build-Zone
New-builds are a great opportunity for first-time buyers to get onto the property ladder and the demand for them is greater than ever. But, with new-build homes under scrutiny, it is very important that home builders and developers are following best practices.
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1st November 2019
5 Ways Property Professionals Can Use LinkedIn For Networking
Posted by deverellsmith
LinkedIn has grown to become the ‘go-to’ networking tool for both B2B and B2C companies and professionals from all industries. With over 500m users, over half of which are active monthly, the opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals at the touch of a button has never been easier.
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