All posts tagged "1985"
Conflict of Interest
(1985 Jun) In a period of ‘retailing revolution,’ one wonders how advisers to pension funds can be so confident that the rate of growth essential to justify low initial yields on purchase price will materialise at the review date. Many funds are already becoming increasingly disillusioned with their agents’ failure to achieve the anticipated rental […]
Supermarkets Visited
(1985 Jun) Thinking I was immune from advertising, my first trip to what has now become my local grocers was to satisfy professional curiosity but standing in the car park at Tesco’s 100th superstore, I was comfortably aware of some magnetic presence which has brightened up Neasden. For those of us who thrive on fresh […]
Yield and Pricing
(1985 Jun) The current trend for private investors in the retail market to be more concerned with short term gain than long term income is worrying. Participants seem to have overlooked the fact that the essence in capital gain to date owes more to previous levels of inflation than to design. And even if high […]
What is professional advice?
Jun 1985 – The role of the valuer, at a rent review or lease renewal, is to argue for his client’s best interests and for the tenant, ‘best’ generally means the lowest rental. Most landlords and tenants get frustrated by the complexity of the rent review system, but many small tenants are expressing their annoyance […]
Conflict of Interest
Jun 1985 – In a period of ‘retailing revolution,’ one wonders how advisers to pension funds can be so confident that the rate of growth essential to justify low initial yields on purchase price will materialise at the review date. Many funds are already becoming increasingly disillusioned with their agents’ failure to achieve the anticipated […]
Point of Law
Jun 1985 – In Shirlcar Properties Ltd v Heinitz & Another [1982], the Court stated stated that use of the expression ‘subject to contract’ did not constitute effective notice to set a rent review procedure in motion when formal notice had to be given. Use of the expression ‘without prejudice’ is widely misunderstood and so […]