All 2019 Predictions articles – Page 3
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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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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”
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2019 forecast: Michael Hughes (Verdion)
The logistics sector is going to see even more ecommerce, more entrants to the occupational market, from Asia especially, and more new tech to satisfy an increasingly demanding consumer base.
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2019 forecast: Ami Kotecha (AMRO)
Rather than planning for impending doom, my hope is that we focus our capital and approach on improving productivity, harnessing technology and driving growth.
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2019 forecast: Ross Blair (Hines)
I hope we start to read some headlines suggesting whatever shape Brexit takes, it will not be the end of the world for London and the UK
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2019 forecast: Owen Michaelson (Harworth Group)
“My genuine hope is that the UK gets back to properly addressing the big social challenges of our age rather than being distracted by Brexit”
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2019 forecast: John Webber (Colliers International)
”At the very least, the government should heed calls for business rates reform and create a fairer tax”
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2019 forecast: Neil Young (Get Living)
”We don’t want the sector’s growth to be stunted by spikes in construction costs or risk being affected by market uncertainty”
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2019 forecast: David Shepherd (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council)
”Read any headline and you would think retail is dead in the water”
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2019 forecast: John Slade (Evans Randall Investors)
”A continued low-interest-rate environment (unless Brexit is a disaster) will underpin low yields in London”