Property Hub

This is the prime location for informed opinion on property matters: finance, law, development, investment, planning, taxation, offices, retail, industrial, distribution, residential, healthcare, hotels and leisure. If it’s property, it’s in the remit. In online courses, conferences, webinars, and journals, we make sure the important issues are covered – sound, comprehensive and thorough.

Here to keep you informed; because it’s knowledge that underpins value – CPD at its very best. 

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A detailed four-part online series chaired by Dan Mitchell, Planning Partner at Barton Willmore. A CONCISE, PRACTICAL and COMPREHENSIVE briefing on HOW IT ALL WORKS – from site finding to funding and from construction to disposal.

This is an ideal series for everyone who needs a quick, reliable briefing on property development and wants to recognise the pitfalls and problems BEFORE the problems find them. Suitable for developers, planners, landowners, construction and project managers and their legal and real estate advisers.

 

Phil is an Associate Director in AECOM’s Fiscal Incentives team and has been with the company since 2013. Having worked in the accountancy and property sectors for twenty years, he has a qualification from the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and is involved in delivering a wide variety of property-related tax advice. His areas of expertise include UK and Irish Capital Allowances, and Land Remediation Relief, and he has worked on numerous and diverse commercial and residential projects for a broad spectrum of clients.

Session 1: ​Heads of Terms, length of leases and the Leases Code

  • Ensuring the Heads of Terms are in enough detail, relevant and right for the current market
  • What should be added to the Heads of Terms that can make all the difference to lease negotiation – issues to consider earlier in the process
  • Update to the Lease Code
  • Length of leases and security of tenure – minimising the potential problems down the line when it might be too late to do anything about them
  • Impact of shorter lease terms on both parties

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Session 1: Measuring brand value (especially now) and performance and its relevance to the hotel’s worth

  • Branded vs non-branded – the implications for values
  • What impact could branding have on a hotel post-COVID-19?
  • Driving up performance – does it matter about the management structure or whether the hotel is a brand or not?  The difference the alternative arrangements make to value
         - Selection criteria of brands
         - What do brands look for?

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What is a joint venture and why are joint ventures necessary?

  • The benefits of joint venture partnerships and common imperatives
  • Why and when you want a joint venture partner, such as to provide:
    (i) risk capital
    (ii) the necessary land and/or rights
    (iii) better funding arrangements

Session 1: The Legal Landscape of Service Charges

  • A short introduction to service charge development
  • The meaning of service charges
  • Concept of reasonableness
  • Legal rules impacting service charges
  • Drafting repair and service charge clauses
  • Common shortcomings in leases
  • Liability of assignors and assignees when leases change hands

Session 2: Practicalities of Running Service Charge Accounts - Part 1

  • Introduction to the case study
  • RICS Service Charge Professional Statement

Session 1: Taxation and Property/VAT 

  • Taxation of property and development:
    • The basics – how tax is levied – on income and gains throughout the property cycle
    • Taxes most frequently encountered by property owners and occupiers
    • The role of tax reliefs and allowances and the impact on cashflow and bottom-line performance
    • Trading and investing – the primary differences for tax and why they are important
    • The impact of tax on transactions
  • VAT and the basics for property:
    • When does it

Session 1: Understanding the Service Provider Models and Practice Issues

  • How has primary care changed in recent years
  • Can the partnership model survive?  Is the partnership agreement robust or flawed?
  • Retirement of GPs
  • Recruitment & succession planning
  • Impact of Primary Care Networks
  • Premises Directions – anticipated April 2021?

Session 2: Review of Premises

  • The primary care estate – what does it look like?
  • The constraints existing lease terms may impose and how t