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Mipim 2024 Day 3: blog by Susan Freeman
The morning started with our Get Set for Net Zero Property Week panel which is part of an initiative of which Mishcon de Reya is a founding partner.
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Mipim 2024 Day 2: blog by Susan Freeman
Wednesday started bright and early with a freezing shower as the boiler in my apartment block had completely given up the ghost and the feeble trickle of water was now ice cold. Are there any reasonably priced hotel rooms in Cannes at peak Mipim when you need them? I doubt ...
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Peter Bill on Labour’s new housing gameplan
Guardian 9 March: Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet will meet top civil servants in Whitehall before Easter as Labour prepares to form the next government. That post-Easter conversation imagined: Treasury mandarin to DLUHC permanent secretary Sarah Healey: “Anything we need to worry about?”
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Make some noise for Newcastle
A new music venue planned for former Debenhams store makes perfect sense for this party city.
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What goes down…
Anyone feeling bleak about today’s depressed property values should take heart from this week’s cover star: Roger Madelin of British Land.
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Unpicking Hunt’s axing of MDR
End of multiple dwellings relief solves abuse of the system but could also cripple legitimate investors.
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Is scrapping FHL yet another an attack on landlords?
The biggest headline-grabbing announcement from the Spring Budget as far as the property sector is concerned is the scrapping of the Furnished Holiday Lettings (FHL) regime. FHL provides those who hire out furnished properties as holiday lets with various tax advantages.
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Why Help to Buy must be resurrected
While the chancellor delivered several welcome tax cuts in the Spring Budget, there was a disappointing absence of support pledged for prospective homebuyers.
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Mipim 2024 Day 1: blog by Susan Freeman
My flight into Nice was delayed so all my plans to attend early evening receptions on Monday night were thwarted. The taxi driver then drove off with my coat, which wasn’t ideal as it’s freezing here at night.
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New life for labs in urban spaces
Today’s science graduates want to stay closer to the action and the life they knew while studying.
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SME housebuilders need backing
The regulatory landscape, high interest rates and planning issues are holding housebuilding back.
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International Women’s Day: Puma’s Tarinee Pandey on why true inclusion equals belonging
The theme of International Women’s Day is ‘Inspire Inclusion’ – but what does that mean?
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International Women’s Day: Real Estate Balance’s Sue Brown on progressing gender equality beyond the annual celebration
Sue Brown, managing director at Real Estate Balance, reflects on how far gender equality has come since the organisation was established and how far it still has to go.
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Road to net zero gets bumpy as political U-turns on green pledges increase
Political U-turns on green pledges and investor withdrawals from ESG funds threaten progress to net zero.
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The UK housebuilding crisis urgently needs a planning reform
A system that allows developments that comply with the rules to get built would boost housebuilding rates
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Construction industry can own digital transformation
Editor: Contrary to popular belief, a recent report has shown that the UK construction industry has been among the best at digital adoption. However, this has started to grind to a halt as a quarter (28%) of businesses in the sector believe digital transformation is easy for them to achieve.
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Retrospective clarity on retrofit
As we all know, Marks & Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store is at the centre of a long-running planning dispute, but it also happens to be slap bang in the middle of the City of Westminster.
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Attitudes to safety must change now
Editor: If the property sector handled disasters like Grenfell as seriously as the airline industry takes its disasters, we would not have witnessed the horrific fatal fire in Valencia last month.
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Peter Bill on how to navigate Mipim
The best meetings are accidental. The best outcomes unexpected.
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Who inspects the inspectors?
As we warned last week, a “massive slowdown” in the residential sector is looming as the deadline for building control surveyors to register with the Building Safety Regulator draws closer.