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		<title>Sign of the Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I took back the keys from a tenant that had rented a pump depot off our family for 36 years.  It was sad to see at first hand the effect the economic downturn is having on the individuals within companies that are having to face the upheaval of a bolt from the blue.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chancellor Fails To Deliver Relief To Empty Property Business Ratepayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again the Chancellor has shown a disregard for the representations of the property sector in refusing to reinstate Empty Property Rating Relief.  Is it the governments thirst for revenue that makes them ignore the damage being done to the economy by this hated tax?  Or is it just a point blank refusal to back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Don’t be taken for an (Empty Rates) April Fool’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Find yourself an ‘off the peg tenant’
 
Last April the chancellor played the owners of commercial property for the fool. He removed empty property rating relief. This ill thought out act has contributed to a considerable degree to the dire state of the commercial property industry. Affecting not only owners but all those closely connected [...]]]></description>
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