All Property Week articles in 11 January 2019 – Page 6
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2019 forecast: James Dipple (MEPC)
Our occupier-led approach is focused on great placemaking. By actively supporting innovation at our projects at Milton Park Oxfordshire, Silverstone Park, Wellington Place Leeds and NOMA Manchester, my hope is that by providing facilities and events for our occupiers to share ideas they will grow.
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2019 forecast: Brian Bickell (Shaftesbury)
“I hope to see a return to strategic thinking and leadership, based on realism not fantasy, which will replace the fractious and divisive atmosphere we are enduring”
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2019 forecast: David Paine (Aberdeen Standard Investments)
”More real estate investors will turn to ‘alternative’ sources of stable income”
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2019 forecast: Lucy Homer (Lendlease Europe)
My biggest hope is certainty in the market. Having this would allow us to invest in the future, whether that’s around increasing diversity, developing new technologies or just making the industry better.
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2019 forecast: John Westwood (NHS Property Services)
”The NHS is under tremendous pressure, so we are going to have to continue to be creative in our work as property and facilities management professionals to ensure the estate is reconfigured in the best way”
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2019 forecast: William Newton (WiredScore)
”This year we’ll make great progress in finding happier, healthier ways for big tech and its users to interact”
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2019 forecast: Mark Collins (CBRE)
With a growing population in London, housing demand is constantly increasing, but both the level of supply and range available still fall short of what is needed.
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2019 forecast: Ben Derbyshire (HTA Design)
”I hope that the housing minister is not seduced by the siren voices of mandarins of specific architectural styles when it comes to designing homes”
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2019 forecast: Keith Breslauer (Patron Capital)
European growth will slow from its current recovery pace.
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2019 forecast: Sally Jones (British Land)
We need a new relationship between government, occupiers and property owners in order to reinvigorate our towns and city centres, provide quality housing and meet the challenges of tech-led change.
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2019 forecast: Mark Bladon (Investec)
”I’d like to see BTR reach the stage where assets are trading so we get some benchmarking, allowing developers and lenders to get more comfortable with the sector”
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2019 forecast: John Alexander (Dundee City Council)
We’re working through the Alliance to attract the investment our cities need. This year, there will be a greater focus on how we make our cities more resilient. There is rightly an increasing shift to green infrastructure and we’re working on that in Dundee and through the Alliance.
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2019 forecast: Conal O’Hara (London Executive Offices)
”The rapid expansion of the flexible working sector is bound to continue”
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2019 forecast: Amol Sarva (Knotel)
I’m hoping this year that co-working and flexible offices come of age. Businesses need to push away the ‘tech bro’ mentality and grow out of the ‘frat culture’ created within co-working facilities.
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2019 forecast: Chris Geaves (Sovereign Centros)
”I expect to see a return to some normality in terms of investor decision-making”
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Slow recovery to follow after market bottoms out in 2019
If you thought 2018 was a bad year for the UK property market, hold on to your hats.
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Councils spending on property off-patch sees record rise in 2018
The amount of money spent by local authorities on commercial properties outside their jurisdictions increased by 125% last year, Property Week can reveal.
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Property Week Digital Edition – 11 January 2019
2019 preview of the year: your forecasts of the year
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2019 forecast: Kenneth Mackenzie (Target Fund Managers)
“The UK care home sector continues to experience ever greater demand from an increasingly elderly demographic”
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2019 forecast: James Raven (Arlington)
”Smaller UK growth sectors will continue to drive the core market, Brexit or no Brexit, with quality, breadth of offer and flexibility being ever more important”