Property News:
Property slump is bad news for advertising at Johnston Press (Guardian Unlimited)
Regional newspaper group Johnston Press added to the pervasive gloom in the media sector yesterday when it reported property advertising had almost halved over the past four months. The company, whose titles include the Yorkshire Evening Post and the Scotsman, said employment advertising slid 32% and motoring ads 24% in the same period. Group advertising revenue was down 15.5% year on year ...
Property ad revenue down by nearly half at Johnston Press titles (Guardian Unlimited)
Johnston Press's revenue from property advertising across its regional newspaper business has plummetted by nearly 50% year on year since the end of August, as the effects of the latest financial crisis hit home. The company, which publishes titles including the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Scotsman and the Sheffield Star, today issued a downbeat trading statement for the first 44 weeks of ...
Intellectual Property (Mondaq)
It is well-known that in China the problem of intellectual property protection lies not with the laws which are relatively comprehensive and basically comply with the obligations under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs).
Intellectual Property (Mondaq)
Australia: Assignment Of Copyright – Is Royalty Withholding Tax Payable? Businesses in the software, publishing, media and internet industries may prefer to assign, rather than licence, copyright and intellectual property for commercial reasons.
Slump hits Heritor's upmarket property development arm (The Scotsman: Business)
THE development arm of upmarket property firm Heritor's has fallen into administration after months of battling against the credit crunch and the downturn in the property
British Land property values plummet 11 percent (Reuters )
The rapid property correction has stripped more than a billion pounds off the value of British Land's assets but its portfolio remains almost full as tenants seek refuge from the economic storm in prime shops and offices.
Million Pound Property Experiment (RainbowNetwork.com)
Fans of ‘water cooler’ show The Million Pound Property Experiment will no doubt be glued to their sofas this Wednesday night when ‘the boys’ as Justin Ryan and Colin McAllister like to call themselves, will be finally buying a property that they can flog for a million.
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-20 07:42 Dubai's Palm property prices fall 40 pct - brokers (Interactive Investor)
DUBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Property prices on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah island have fallen as much as 40 percent since September as buyers struggle to get mortgage loans amid the global credit crisis, real estate brokers say. A four-bedroom villa on the man-made island developed by government-owned Nakheel, is now selling for 10 million UAE dirhams ($2.72 million), down from 15 million dirhams in ...
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-20 08:14 Cyprus property tax revenues slump 27 pct Jan-Oct (Interactive Investor)
NICOSIA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Cyprus's tax receipts from real estate transactions fell 27 percent in the first ten months of the year though overall revenues were marginally higher than last year, data released on Thursday showed. Reflecting a downturn in the property market, capital gains tax fell revenue fell to 278.86 million euros from January to October, from 382.78 million in the first ten ...
Value of property portfolio at British Land sinks 10% (The Herald)
Retail, office and business park developer British Land yesterday said the value of its property portfolio had plunged more than 10%.
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