All articles by Barry Jessup
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InsightTake a design tip from reality TV
Global TV and social media is awash with reality TV shows, usually regional variations on a theme featuring exposed individuals put into a highly pressurised environment without the necessary tools to cope properly.
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InsightReap the benefit of experience
In the UK, we are hopefully moving into the post-Covid-19 era, and it feels like businesses across all sectors are racing to implement the lessons learned from the pandemic.
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InsightThe self-employed deserve support during this crisis
There is clearly a real appetite for government and business to work closely together to limit the damage Covid-19 has done to the UK economy, and that is encouraging.
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InsightWhat happens next? Barry Jessup’s reforecast for 2020 and beyond
In the second in our three-part series, figures from the residential and property finance sectors share their outlooks for a post-lockdown world.
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InsightWhy we fail at problem-solving
One of the defining factors in determining the eventual impact that Covid-19 will have on the world will be the ability of countries and medtech to collaborate in designing and producing at scale an effective vaccine.
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InsightBridging the town-gown gap
The more time you spend in the real estate sector, the more you realise that most of us live in a cocoon, entirely unaware of the broader world around us. Our methods are outdated and some of the thinking is stale. We can be slow to recognise new trends, reluctant ...
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InsightFresh modular recruits welcome
The recent news that Goldman Sachs has invested £75m in East Midlands factory-built housing company Top Hat is a welcome shot in the arm for the struggling modular housing sector.
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InsightFocus on wellbeing is here to stay
One of the buzzwords doing the rounds in real estate circles is ‘wellbeing’ – but there is precious little understanding of what this actually means and, most importantly, how we should be incorporating it into our developments.
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InsightTime to plan our journey to a post-car future
Much has been said about the major disruptive elements facing the real estate industry, namely increased government intervention, a changing retail environment and intervention from the world’s leading tech companies.
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InsightTech disruptors set to overthrow property's old order
Real estate doesn’t know what is coming. I have attended multiple ‘innovation’ or ‘disrupt’ property conferences or seminars over the past few months, most of which have had one thing in common: a chronic lack of willingness to innovate or disrupt.
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InsightWe need to create environments, not just buildings
Development has changed and the role of the developer has changed with it. No longer are we being asked to simply design and deliver buildings.
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Insight'Develop-to-rent' would be a sector for the ages
There is no doubt that the private rented sector (PRS), now more popularly called build-to-rent (BTR), is a rising force in residential development.
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InsightInfrastructure investment is key to London’s success
Property’s focus in the election campaign has so far been on the housing agenda - but this is largely misplaced.
