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September 2009

Thu 3
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Fri 4

08:00 - - The EPRA Annual Conference 2009 in Brussels

Venue: La Hulpe Conference centre
Location: Brussels, Belguim
Cost: 995

EPRA Annual Conference 2009
Dolce La Hulpe Brussels, 135, Chaussée de Bruxelles, 1310 La Hulpe, Belgium
03.09.09 - 04.09.09

The EPRA Annual Conference 2009 will be held in Brussels. It is the key event of the year for listed real estate, property investors and the financial community who are members of European Public Real Estate Association.

The programme has been designed to address the conditions our sector is facing – with a clear focus on identifying present realities, future concerns, and the wider opportunities which will inevitably present themselves. The venue has been chosen with simplicity in mind; which also takes into account the time and expense concerns that we all face.

www.epra.com/conference2009

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Thu 3

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - Planning - the Essentials

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

PLANNING - The Essentials

An explanation of how the planning system works in legal and practical terms. The course covers: the essential concepts in planning, how to handle a planning application and appeal, the use of consultants and an updating on current issues and developments.

The course will cover:
• Planning applications
• The Planning Officer’s Report
• Negotiating with Local Authorities
• Planning obligations and planning contributions
• Estimating the chances of planning consent success
• Appeals
• Latest Government circulars and update on planning policy guidance
• The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
• Listed buildings and conservation areas
• Judicial review – how likely and with what consequences
• The Planning Act 2008

Course Directors:

Richard Harwood, Barrister, 39 Essex Street

Peter Weatherhead, Director, DTZ – Planning and Development

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Tue 8

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - An Introduction to Commercial Leases

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL LEASES

Leases of commercial premises are highly technical documents. This course will cover not only the basic principles that the parties and their agents need to determine for their ‘Heads of Terms’, but also the detailed issues that can arise when the text of a lease is being negotiated.

The course will cover:
• The 2007 Code for Commercial Leases
• The terms you should seek when letting as a landlord and the terms you can accept when taking a property as a tenant
• What is possible in practice in the current market and what is now usual
• Procedures for excluding the 1954 Act
• The length of term and security of tenure
• Tenant/guarantor liability
• Assignment and subletting
• Rent review
• Repairs and service charges
• General tenants’ covenants
• Insurance
• Mistakes to avoid

This course will be of particular importance to letting agents and property managers, and to solicitors responsible for drafting commercial leases.

Course Director:
Philip Freedman CBE, Senior Property Partner, Mishcon de Reya

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Thu 10

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - Property Investment Appraisals and Analysis - Covering all the topical issues relevant to current market conditions

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

PROPERTY INVESTMENT APPRAISALS AND ANALYSIS - Covering all the topical issues relevant to current market conditions

An essential insight into the role of valuations in property investment, including a discussion of the role of property as an investment. The day also provides an opportunity for delegates to undertake an appraisal based on their own perceptions of risk and market changes. A bespoke Excel spreadsheet will be provided to all delegates as an educational aid.

The course will cover:
• Definitions of price, value and worth and the distinction between price paid and investment value
• A discussion of valuation models that will highlight the distinction between discounted cash flow (DCF) and conventional valuation techniques
• Issues relating to expectations and forecasts. Accounting for rental and capital changes in the current downturn and in the future
• Understanding price relative to future potential cash flows and ensuring that assets are priced to market
• How to account for risk and uncertainty
• Issues affecting performance measurement of property

This course will be of benefit to both valuers and non-valuers who use commercial property valuations as part of their decision-making process for investment.

Course Director:
Nick French, Professor in Real Estate & DTZ Fellow in Commercial Property, Oxford Brookes University

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Tue 15

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - Property Development Appraisals

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT APPRAISALS

This course is focused on both commercial and mixed-use property developments. It aims to provide delegates with an understanding of the process by which developments progress; from an initial ‘back of an envelope’ calculation, through to sophisticated cash flow and viability studies with sensitivity analysis. It takes full account of current market conditions.

The course includes an interactive workshop session. Participants are advised to bring a calculator or laptop for this session.

The course will cover:
• Residual valuations and development appraisal
• Appraisal methodology
• Cash flow techniques
• Measures of profitability – profit erosion calculations
• Ground rent and premium derivation
• Refinement – sensitivity and marginal viability analysis
• Timing, phasing and interim receipts – grants etc
• Review of computer software – use of spreadsheets
• Avoiding negligence – making the right notes and assumptions

The day will be of great benefit to developers, project managers, lenders, advisers, agents, consultants, landowners and public sector bodies concerned with or contemplating the development of land or buildings.

Course Director:
Simon Wainwright, Managing Director, J Peiser Wainwright – Real Estate Advisers

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Fri 18

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - All You Need to Know About Social and Affordable Housing

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

All You Need to Know About Social and Affordable Housing

This course looks at the provision of affordable housing through the planning process. It will enable delegates to understand how local authorities and housing associations work and how to keep projects commercially viable.

The course will cover:
• Planning requirements
- What is a Registered Provider of Social Housing and what does it do?
- What forms can affordable housing take?
- What are the Government's planning requirements for social housing?
- The provision of social housing and infrastructure through planning conditions
- Hot topics and new legislative proposals

• Negotiations with the planning authority
- Target percentage requirement
- Economics of the scheme
- Local Authority requirements
- Housing market assessments
- Cascade mechanisms

• Role of Housing Associations
- What they are
- Selecting the right one

• Application of Section 106 in practice
- Local Authority approved lists
- Funding of s106 schemes
- Delivering new homes in a challenging market

• Grants and finance
- Funding sources
- Strategic partners of the Housing Corporation
- Grant direct to developers
- Scheme implementation

• The Government’s agenda
- Nationally – Housing Reform Green Paper – Homes for the Future: More Affordable, More Sustainable
- Regionally – Mayor of London’s Housing Strategy
- Sub-regionally

• The Local Authority’s perspective

• Intermediate market housing

Course Directors:

Naomi Goode, Partner, Lewis Silkin

Kelvin Kift, Regional Development Director, Circle Anglia

Darren Welsh, Assistant Director, London Borough of Enfield

For more information on this event click here to send an email enquiry

Mon 21
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Tue 22

11:00 - CoreNet Global - CoreNet Global EMEA Summit - Brussels

Venue: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Brussels
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Cost: Separate member and non member rates apply for end users, service providers, academics and students. Early bird rates (deadline 30th June) and discount arrangements are also available.

The eight annual CoreNet Global EMEA Summit will take the theme “Forward! Positioning for the Turnaround and Beyond” and will examine the impact that the economic situation has had on corporate real estate, and what the sector needs to do to prepare for the post recession world, to ensure that organisations are prepared for growth and change before recovery really commences.

For more information on this event click here to send an email enquiry

Tue 22

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - A Practical Guide to Compulsory Purchase Orders and Compensation

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDERS AND COMPENSATION

An essential insight into compulsory purchase orders and compensation.

This course will cover:
• Procedure for making CPOs
• Objecting to CPOs
• Powers of compulsory acquisition
• Government policy towards compulsory acquisition
• Legal challenges to CPOs
• Recent case law
• Pre-CPO negotiations
• The statutory valuation rules
• Statutory planning assumptions and ‘the scheme’
• Injurious affection and severance
• Disturbance compensation and loss payments
• Compensation where no land is acquired
• Lands Tribunal evidence

An essential course for everyone involved in using, considering using, resisting and considering resisting CPOs and the award, negotiation and challenge of compensation payments.

Course Directors:

Martin Edwards, Barrister, 39 Essex Street

Keith Murray, Director, Keith Murray Associates

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Wed 23

Property Care Association - Examination Preparation for CSSW

Venue: Property Care Association
Location: Huntingdon
Cost: Members Rates (Ex VAT) £160 Non-Members (Ex VAT) £190

Examination Preparation for CSSW

This is a comprehensive one day training course which aims to prepare candidates for the Certificated Surveyor in Structural Waterproofing (CSSW) qualification. The course is particularly beneficial for those who have not sat an exam for some time, as candidates undergo a ‘mock’ exam using past papers.

Subjects covered include:

- Basic Principles of Structural Waterproofing
- Surveying
- Report & Quoting
- Principles and Applications of Cementitious & Cavity Drain Systems

http://www.property-care.org/training-events/training-courses/examination-preparation-for-cssw

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09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - Rent Review Essentials - Principles and Practicalities

Venue: Strand Palace Hotel
Location: London
Cost: £249 + VAT

RENT REVIEW ESSENTIALS - Principles and Practicalities

The impact of rent reviews on outgoings and capital values has become well known in commercial markets. This full day workshop will look at the three primary aspects of rent reviews: the machinery, the valuation exercise and the settlement. It will consider how to systematically appraise the terms of the lease, collate and analyse evidence, and handle negotiations. Third party processes used in the event of non-agreement will also be reviewed along with practical tips to minimise the impact of professional and related costs.

The course will cover:
• The hypothetical world of rent reviews
• Initiating the review – time limits and notices
• The critical assumptions and disregards
• Review clause workshop
• Third party procedures
• Analysis of evidence
• Rent review negotiation workshop
• The duties of an expert witness and making the best of your case
• Challenging the decision of a third party
• Fees, costs and Calderbanks

This course will be of benefit to lawyers, surveyors, property owners, tenants, estate managers and all those involved in rent review negotiations or, more generally, the management of commercial property.

Course Directors:
Derek Bruce, Principal Lecturer, School of Surveying, Kingston University

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Fri 25

09:30 - Henry Stewart Conference Studies LLP - Selling and Buying Land Subject to Clawback, Option Rights and Overage Payments

Venue: Mayfair Conference Centre
Location: London
Cost: £499.00 + VAT

Selling or buying subject to clawback and additional value rights is the way to go – but it is pretty complicated.

This briefing tells you all you need to know.

Covering the problems and solutions in: choosing the right structure; documenting what has been agreed; defining trigger events; associates and connected persons; perfecting security; dealing with the government and other public bodies; taxation and insurance; meeting the demands of planners and planning gain; interpreting applicable law and drafting anti-avoidance provisions.

An essential briefing for all solicitors, surveyors, agents, property owners, charities, local authorities, developers, funders and investors wishing to be active in current market conditions.


Programme:

Enhanced value triggers
• Categories of overage
• Why different treatments are needed

Defining trigger events – outline, conditional and detailed planning consents
• Resale
• Completion of rental negotiations
• Commencement of development
• Defining commencement
• Multiple triggers

Approaches to security
• Mortgages – insolvency issues
• Options and rights in rem
• Ransom strips and leases
• Guarantees and bonds
• Land Registry procedures
• Personal and Directors’ liability

Solving the problems of documenting the transaction
• Long leases
• Restrictive covenants and positive obligations
• Rights to re-purchase
• Options and pre-emption clauses
• Warranted matters
• Restrictions

Drafting anti–avoidance provisions

Defining associate and connected persons

Relevant law
• Contracts (Rights of 3rd Parties) Act 1999
• Statutes and Subordinate Legislation

Structuring the Deal - Making the best of Overage provisions
• How to calculate the extra value
• What should the split be with the Vendor?
• What should the trigger be?
• Deal structure and timescales to receive the payment
• What are the ways to protect yourself if you disagree or payment is not made?

Overcoming the problems of planning drawings

Problems of planning appeals – rights and obligations

Planning gain

The ‘might be called in’ problem

Insurance
• Comfort for re-emerging markets – can insurance help?
• Types of risk and underwriting
• Asset certainty and reliability
• How much risk is too much risk

Tax aspects
• Who pays and when?
• Income tax
• Corporation tax
• Capital gains tax
• VAT
• Stamp duty land tax
• Tax advantages and anti-avoidance provisions
• Valuation, including “hope value”

Financial practicalities for buyers
• Issues for lenders
• Overage cash-flow conundrum

Resolution to dispute
• Arbitrators/experts
• Enforcing completion of the transaction
• Damages and specific performance

Land Sales by Public Bodies - Local and Central Government, Charities etc
• What are the drivers of the Vendor?
• Is the sale part of a regeneration programme ?
• What is the effect of the Government's proposal to dismantle the HRA?
• What deal structure enables the Vendor to capitalise on future value increases?
• What deal structure gives the best long term income?

Case Law referred to during the day includes:
Barnet London Borough Council v Barnet Football Club Holdings Limited [2004]
Bride Hall Estates Limited v St George North London [2004]
Brighton and Hove City Council v Audus [2009]
Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2009]
Cobbe v Yeomans Row Management Limited [2008]
Crown Estate Commissioners v Possfund Custodian Trustee Ltd [1996]
Fountain v Banner (2000) Ltd [2000]
George Wimpey UK Limited v VI Construction Limited [2005]
Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust v London & Quadrant Housing Trust [1998]
Groveholt Ltd v Hughes [2008]
Grundy v Summit Group Holdings [1998]
Harris v Williams-Wayne [2005]
Micro Design Group v BDW Trading Limited [2008]
Ministry of Defence v County & Metropolitan Homes (Rissington) Limited [2002]
Primaplus v Hall Aggregates [2001]
Walker v Kenley [2008]
Wrotham Park Estate Co Limited v Parkside Homes Limited [1974]

For more information on this event click here to send an email enquiry