All Property Week articles in 15 October 2021 – Page 6
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The government must show leadership on building safety, says Network Homes
Helen Evans, CEO of Network Homes, and Jamie Ratcliff, the housing association’s executive director of people and partnerships, sat down with Andrew Teacher of Blackstock Consulting to discuss building safety, four years on from the Grenfell Tower fire.
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Why London is still calling
When the UK first entered lockdown in March 2020, the impact was nowhere more stark than in London.
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Spec schemes: small can be beautiful
Editor: When it comes to speculative development, most attention focuses on the big shed developments, but that’s by no means the whole story. Smaller-scale speculative development is on the rise, particularly when it comes to industrial space, and there are a number of good reasons for this.
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Dynamic UK alternative debt market is growing
Editor: In the article ‘Debt funding for property deals fell 15% year on year in 2020’, AEW appears to include alternative lenders in its data, given its conclusion: “We don’t expect the current cycle of cost-driven inflation to be long-lasting…allowing banks and other non-bank lenders to start lending less conservatively.”
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This week in… 2016
The London Borough of Newham granted planning permission for 3,000 homes at the Silvertown site in east London’s Royal Docks.
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King’s Cross: 20 years on
A look back at the development of King’s Cross over the last 20 years.
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Property Week Digital Edition – 15 October 2021
Argent’s Robert Evans looks back on the first 20 years of the developer’s flagship King’s Cross regen scheme – Property hot shots raise thousands at Chickenshed charity clay pigeon shoot – Government introduction of new Class MA PDR sparks urban planning debate
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Suburban build-to-rent is one to watch
What will be the key property trends of 2022? The exponential growth of the suburban build-to-rent (BTR) market will surely be one to watch.
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The office return is slow but steady
Take-up looks good but is not expected to rise significantly until spring.
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What does planning reform pause mean for the housing industry?
In recent weeks, the future direction of the government’s reforms to the planning system seem to have gone off course from the vision set out in the planning white paper, where the government proposed to tear the planning system down “and start again”.
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Hotel investment volumes yet to return to pre-pandemic levels
UK hotel investment volumes hit £1.26bn in the first half of 2021 and are expected to pick up further in the second half, but are still significantly adrift of pre-pandemic levels, reveals data from CBRE.
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High tide for Welsh house prices
House prices have hit a 17-year high, but how long will the boom time last.
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Q&A: Silbury partner Gavin Eustace on resi and retirement
Gavin Eustace explains why he set up the business and what he plans to do next.
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Please mind the ethnicity pay gap
Only four of the UK’s top 10 commercial real estate agencies currently publish data on their ethnicity pay gaps – although two more are due to publish in the coming weeks.
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Gove hints at housing policy shift from South East to north
New housing secretary suggests in party conference speech that it will build more in north and less in south.
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Landlords urge government not to ignore London in ‘levelling-up’ drive
Landlords have called on the government “not to overlook London” amid fears that the ‘levelling-up’ agenda could result in the ‘levelling down’ of the capital’s economy.
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Sector collaboration is the future
The office, university campus and hospital are all building types under intense scrutiny, with these sectors converging to shape new ‘innovation districts’.
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Inflation cloud looms on the horizon
At the end of the day, all economics and its subset of business, of which real estate is but one segment, are about supply and demand.