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'PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT LIVING IN KABUL IS REALLY like, and I sayit's like a cross between Mad Max, Life of Brian and Zulu.' If Richard Scarth's life was turned [...]

OFFICE OCCUPIERS ACROSS LONDON'S WEST END ARE FACING massive rent hikes that could force many to relocate. A slew of rent reviews fall clue this month in Mayfair, some of [...]

CHARLES FIFIELD WAS ALWAYS GOING TO END UP AS the chairman of Matrics, the branch of the RICS for surveyors under the age of 35. His background is impeccable. He [...]

THE WORLD OF DILAPIDATIONS IS ABOUT arguments over repairs, but at the moment there are repairs ongoing over arguments. A row between lawyers and surveyors about the updated dilapidations protocol [...]

The City of London Corporation has appointed Peter Bennett to the ancient role of city surveyor. Bennett will manage and co-ordinate all activity relating to commercial property and construction owned [...]

Name: Anne Barker. Job title: Associate, Brown & Co, Norwich. Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Rural Enterprise and Land Management from Harper Adams; Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS); [...]

Chartered surveyors group Berrys, of Northamptonshire, has been chosen by English Partnerships, the national regeneration agency in England, to manage its agricultural holdings in the central and south of England. [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT WOULD BE UNDERSTANDABLY DIFFICULT TO GET the public to sympathise much with surveyors who have fallen on hard times. Residential or commercial, they receive little love from [...]

LOOK AROUND THE AVERAGE PROPERTY-RELATED office and ask yourself whether we are an inclusive industry. How many women, or black people, do you see, particularly in senior roles? The reality [...]

THE RICS HAS RAISED CONCERNS THAT THE CREDIBILITY of expert witnesses is being damaged because too many are giving biased evidence. Duncan Preston, chairman of the RICS Valuation Faculty and [...]

PETER MOORE IS MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MACDONALD & COMPANY, THE ONLY RECRUITMENT COMPANY APPROVED BY THE RICS I WOULD LIKE TO START A PART-TIME COURSE, EITHER A PROPERTY-RELATED MSC, OR [...]

APS Chartered Surveyors has relocated its Thames Valley office to Davidson House, Forbury Square, Reading RG1 3EU. Tel: 0118 9000 970. Web: [...]

Frank Malcolm has been hired as head of the Edinburgh building surveying department at J&E Shepherd Chartered Surveyors. He joins from CRGP, where he was an [...]

Andrew Byrne has joined the agency department of Liverpool-based surveyor and consultant Keppie Massie as a graduate surveyor, having graduated with a degree in real estate management from Liverpool John [...]

STUART: SHE WAS A FEISTY RETAIL AGENT MY INITIAL INTRODUCTION TO THE INDUSTRY WAS through Max La Frenais, my uncle, who was a partner at Clive Lewis & Partners. l [...]

RENT REVIEW SURVEYORS IN London's West End are vying to be appointed on two significant overseas- owned properties. These are Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, which is let to [...]

Property Week's online vote to find Britain's best rent review surveyor is now closed. The league table will be published on 20 June. Thanks to all those who have [...]

Eamon Kennedy has been promoted from associate to partner at Kirkby & Diamond Chartered Surveyors. He is head of commercial agency at the firm's Luton [...]

EDISTON PROPERTIES DIRECTORS DANNY O'Neil and Ken Barrett gave a gloomy outlook for property at Property Week's 1st Friday event in Glasgow earlier this month. Held at the Living Room [...]

Government surveyors have begun a month-long industrial action in protest at last year's pay award. The threat of further action is also looming if 2008 pay negotiations unravel. Last week [...]

CHRIS: HE WAS A MASSIVE INFLUENCE MY GRANDFATHER WAS A MASSIVE INFLUENCE ON ME going into commercial property. It's a strange industry and people outside don't really know what commercial [...]

THE CHARTERED SURVEYORS OF JERSEY ARE members of a sociable profession on a sociable island. But on 30 November, when the senior members of five firms met, parties were far [...]

Whybrow Chartered Surveyors has appointed Christopher Ware as a surveyor based in the Colchester [...]

PLENTY OF PROPERTY PEOPLE FANCY themselves as rock gods--a dream that is laid to rest every year at the annual property karaoke event, aka Party Near the Park. But one [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KENELM: WE'RE MORE LIKE MATES GEORGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS OWN MAN, AND HE WENT straight into property. I don't know if that was under my influence. Judging [...]

The message A surveyor's decision on a boundary dispute was upheld, despite procedural failings, because those failings caused no unfairness. THE CASE A HOUSEOWNER IN A LONG-RUNNING boundary dispute with [...]

APS Chartered Surveyors has recruited Ben Anderson as a building surveyor and David Robinson as a graduate surveyor to join the Thames Valley office. Assistant surveyors Kevin Howes, Paul Sarchet [...]

BUILDING SURVEYORS AND project managers are being consulted on an identity card that would allow their skills to be recognised across Europe. The scheme is promoted by the Association of [...]

HIGH JINKS ARE IN THE AIR. No sooner had 1,700 [pounds sterling] of damage been inflicted on the Marriott Hotel in Mayfair's Grosvenor Square by the RICS junior branch than [...]

CHRIS: 'SAM IS NOT A TREE-HUGGING KIND OF GUY' SAM DID WELL TO ESCAPE THE CLUTCHES OF BEING A chartered surveyor. I'm a surveyor, my wife Janice is a surveyor [...]

VAL: DAVID SAVED MY LIFE STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY IS QUITE LIKE A LARGE company with 500 acres of landholdings in and around Glasgow. We own 40 acres east of Land Securities' [...]

Hettrich Chartered Surveyors has hired Die Sauer as a director. He will be responsible for many areas of the domestic investment sales and acquisitions department and will also work with [...]

Roche Chartered Surveyors has moved to 56 Thorpe Road, Norwich NR1 1RY. Tel: 01603 [...]

Naylors Chartered Surveyors has recruited Stuart Logan (left) as contract manager and buildings surveyor from Dodds on [...]

Monday SOME CLIENTS HAVE ASKED US TO COMMENT ON THE likely future of the rating system. This involves a review of the progress of Sir Michael Lyons' inquiry in to [...]

Roche Chatered Surveyors has moved to 56 Thorpe Road, Norwich NR1 1 RY. Tel: 01603 [...]

Keygrove Chartered Surveyors has recruited Bernie Cooper as agency [...]

Construction output will revive over the next 18 months, rising 2% by the end of 2006 and 2.7% in 2007, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered [...]

APS Chartered Surveyors has appointed Darren Wright as associate director in London. Brian Davies joins as a senior surveyor and David Clifton joins as a surveyor specialising in contract administration [...]

Kevin Drugan has resigned as chief executive of the Chartered Surveyors Training Trust after three years. Founded in 1984, the London-based trust offers apprenticeships as an alternative route into [...]

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has welcomed the new Energy Performance Certificate scheme, launched by housing and planning minister Yvette Cooper this week. The scheme will give every UK [...]

Monday MOST OF THE DAY IS SPENT FOLLOWING UP ACTION points from last week's board meeting. In an expanding business such as ours, the single-most important challenge we face is [...]

Alastair Gibson Chartered Surveyors has merged into Fifield Glyn. Alastair Gibson is now a consultant at the latter firm at 1 Royal Mews, Gadbrook Park, Cheshire CW9 7UD. Tel: 01606 [...]

WITH THE IMPENDING FINAL INTRODUCTION OF THE Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and consequent demise of the fire certificate regime, we are currently being faced with a barrage of purported [...]

Merjs Chartered Surveyors has appointed Malcolm Bailey as a senior professional surveyor in the professional department. He joins from Moss Kaye [...]

North-west developer Belfields has chosen Christopher & Surveyors on the first phase of its Newheartlands Pathfinder project in Bootle, Liverpool, comprising 51 houses, 98 flats and 12,000 sw ft (1,115 [...]

Betty Albon has been appointed as president of the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors and Property Managers in Local Government. She is the corporate property officer for the St Edmundsbury [...]

Heb Chartered Surveyors has promoted Tom Cartledge to associate partner. He previously worked for Dalgleish and Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker in [...]

Sir, I was interested to read Nicholas Redman's piece on wind farms (professional + legal, 29.07.05, p58), but I disagree with it. The spread of wind farms and the positive [...]

A WEEK, AS HAROLD WILSON ONCE SAID, IS A LONG time in politics. And the four months that have elapsed since I last wrote in these pages seem like a [...]