The Jakarta office of property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle reports that retail leasing is now a landlord's market.

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In the 1980s Britain ranked fourth as a destination for expansionist European retailers, according to a survey by Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consultancy.

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The simplest way to keep your accounts active is to vote your proxies, says Debbie Zumoff, chief compliance officer at Keane, a New York-headquartered unclaimed property consultancy.

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Retail rents are falling rapidly: down by around 30% for street-level storefronts in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, according to First Pacific Davies, a property consultancy.

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The study, carried out by property consultancy GVA for Crossrail, found properties in places such as Ealing Broadway, Southall, Hayes and Harlington, Farringdon, Whitechapel, Custom House, Woolwich and Abbey Wood could be boosted by up to 25%.

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The success of Mapletree Greater China's IPO, which is also Singapore's biggest REIT listing on record, "would give a positive spin on the Singapore REIT market" and set the stage for further REIT listings this year, said Nick Crockett, executive director at CBRE Capital Advisors, a property consultancy firm.

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Today, says Jones Lang LaSalle, a property and hotel consultancy, hotels are the lowest-yielding property investment in the region.

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Roberts is a director at the London-based property and planning consultancy Turnberry Consulting, and in his latest book, Racecourse Architecture, he and co-author Isabelle Taylor trace the history of race courses, beginning with the Circus Maximus and the first century B.

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So, too, is the risk of overlap: a recent study by M-CAM, a consultancy which studies intellectual property, found that more than 30% of patents make duplicate claims, raising questions about their validity.

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Real estate consultancy Colliers International recently reported property prices in Dubai had plunged 41 percent during the first three months of 2009.

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Real-estate consultancy Soufun forecasts a growth rate of 6%-7% in new property under construction in 2012, a sharp slowdown from 20.5% in the first 11 months of 2011.

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