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An 18-month study undertaken by a team from Loughborough University Business School led by Dr John R. Calvert, and sponsored by service charge specialists Property Solutions, revealed that one-third of all UK service charge expenditure needs to be monitored, and in almost half the cases, investigated - raising a question mark over £942 million of controllable costs.

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New Report Shows Office Service Charges Are Getting Worse Dr John R. Calvert has recently published an update to his five-year study of multi-let office service charges (published in February 2005*), which uses two more years¹ worth of data, and which underlines both the fact that these charges are becoming more expensive and more time-consuming for those involved and that a change is needed now.

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The updated Loughborough Service Charge Study, sponsored by Property Solutions, was launched at The Investors Property Databank's (IPD) annual UK Conference in Brighton on 9th November 2005. The pre-conference seminar was entitled "Occupational Therapy". There were eight speakers from a broad spectrum of the commercial property industry, including Dr John Calvert of Loughborough University, who gave presentations covering a range of landlord and tenant issues. These included "The Impact of Tenant Satisfaction on Investment Performance" and "The Trouble With Service Charges". Click here to link to the IPD's website page which allows you to download the presentations, speakers bio's and delegates list.

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