All Property Week articles in 20 January 2023 – Page 4
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Helping residents to save energy
It was encouraging to hear chancellor Jeremy Hunt talking to the Select Committee recently about the government’s ambitions to help people with energy saving by providing tips and advice, but also advocating for people to take responsibility for their own energy consumption as part of a government campaign.
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Q&A: Southern Grove chair on the UK’s housing supply issues
Firm’s founder Andrew Southern says ‘blue-sky thinking’ is needed for housing planning and development.
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Professional
The later-living sector needs a boost
After years of stagnation, there is finally some progress in tackling the barriers holding back growth and innovation in the later-living sector.
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Professional
What will the Economic Crime Bill mean for limited partnerships?
Limited partnerships (LPs) have been the source of some criticism recently for their alleged role in money laundering and concealment of assets.
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Building connections: Big interview with BPF’s Melanie Leech
British Property Federation chief executive Melanie Leech explains to Property Week why building relationships at a local, regional and national level is the key to future development.
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Sales slowdown may not be a disaster for big housebuilders
Large cash reserves will help bigger developers to ride out sales slowdown as economic turbulence hits sector.
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Professional
What are the benefits of collateral warranties for building projects?
The judgment in the case of Abbey Healthcare (Mill Hill) v Simply Construct (UK) 2022 is a timely reminder of the benefit that collateral warranties provide.
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Diversity can benefit real estate
As we enter a challenging new year, it is important that we continue our commitment to improve diversity in the real estate industry.
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Community Land Auctions not a practical solution
The levelling-up bill with all of its guises and amends has certainly kept the planning and residential sectors debating. Comments in the media are plentiful every time there’s a revision, and the Community Land Auctions amendment is no different, having been originally tabled in July last year and now back ...
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All eyes will be on Gove this year
The secretary of state for levelling up etc, Michael Gove, is going to loom large in the lives of property folk, planners and architects over the coming year.
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Zone workspaces to cater for all
Neurodiversity is a term that is increasingly in use these days. But what does it mean and how can the property world support neurodiversity in a meaningful way?
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Saluting those ahead of their time
The new year brought sad news of the passing of property icon Godfrey Bradman, best known for his 1980s partnership with Sir Stuart Lipton’s Stanhope to develop the City of London’s Broadgate scheme, which then prime minister Margaret Thatcher described at the launch as the “largest development in the City ...
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Agent P: PropSki
Friday 20 January, 10pm, Fahrenheit 7 hotel, Val Thorens, Savoi, France: Young Thruster and I have checked in a day early for real estate networking event PropSki. Last year we bonded on the coach from the airport with a gang from Savills. Mistake
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Those in less affluent areas are driving the private rental market
Estate agent Hamptons has found that the private rental market is currently being driven by those in less affluent areas.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Heriberto Cuanalo, chief executive of student housing operator Collegiate AC Group
Heriberto Cuanalo, chief executive of student housing operator Collegiate AC Group, on how he got started in property, his favourite film and book, the celebrity he’d like to meet and his number-one travel destination.
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Get Living faces test case over £27m fire safety upgrade bill
Triathlon Homes launches legal bid to make landlord foot remediation bill at London Olympic Village flats.
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Paul Fosh offers trio of apartments in Wales at first auction of 2023
A group of three apartments in a converted 19th-century chapel in south Wales is set to go under the hammer with a guide price of £220,000 in Paul Fosh’s first auction of 2023, which opens on 31 January.
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Retail faces sharp downturn in 2023
Marks & Spencer and Tesco are the latest in a list of major high-street stores that reported better-than-expected sales over the Christmas period. Bricks-and-mortar retailers had taken a bit of a battering in the months prior as inflation hit and rolling industrial strikes affected footfall, so a positive result over ...
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Sellers’ prayers answered in last Bond Wolfe sale of 2022
Birmingham church fetches £902,000 as auction house raises £20.8m and scores success rate of 94%