All Property Week articles in 21 April 2017 – Page 6
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Insight
AREF report: no lessons learned
AREF’s latest report assessing the impact of the Brexit vote on UK real estate and the funds industry is complacent and protects the vested interests of those who instructed it.
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News
Kontor poaches CBRE rising star
Rising star Walé Sanusi has left CBRE to join the tenant representation team at Kontor.
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News
BNP Paribas closes in on Strutt & Parker acquisition
BNP Paribas is carrying out due diligence on its potential buyout of Strutt Parker as a deal to unite the two firms edges toward a conclusion, Property Week can reveal.
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Insight
Space man: Cal Lee interview
Workthere has all the usual attributes associated with a proptech company - a cool-looking website, hip young staff and a funky name that would not sound out of place in Silicon Valley. But Workthere is not your average VC-investor-backed start-up. It is the brainchild of Savills.
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Insight
Snap election? Suddenly it is all starting to make sense
And so we’re off. In a genuine surprise move, Theresa May has called a general election for 8 June despite No 10 having warned journalists off the idea for many months.
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News
Talking the hardest: Ardley boxing clever for charity
Property is not short of people who have proven themselves tough negotiators. But the founder of developer BlackOnyx, David Ardley, is taking things to another level by getting into the boxing ring to prove his status as ‘The Hard Man of Property’.
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Insight
Is prefabrication set to make big return to the UK?
The announcement by First Base that it is progressing its plans to incorporate a modular construction facility into the regeneration scheme at Silvertown is another bold example of a developer looking to take advantage of the opportunities presented by modular construction.
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Markets
Science parks set to boost post-Brexit Britain
A few short days before she moved into No. 10 last summer, Theresa May set out her vision for the Britain she hoped to lead. The UK, she said, needed a “proper industrial strategy” to stimulate jobs and growth and - in the subtext - keep big business here in ...
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Professional
Q&A: RICS aims to crack down on unscrupulous rating agents with new code
It has been obvious for some time that the business rates system is open to abuse. But the abuse is not typically inflicted by occupiers seeking to unfairly avoid the property tax.
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News
Separated at birth: Steve Jude and Miles Jupp
It’s a good thing Citibase’s Steve Jude raises some serious points in his latest column on the rise of the regions otherwise Metropolis could easily have confused him with BBC Radio 4 funny man Miles Jupp.
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News
Did any of your lodgings leavers ever leave a beaver?
Landlords sometimes get a bad rep for their overly strict checkout procedures but new research that dropped in Metropolis’s inbox this week suggests that tenants may be even more guilty of not playing ball at leaving time.
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Professional
Are Londoners starting to see rent as a long-term housing option?
The writing is on the wall, but we’re reluctant to admit it. Owning a home remains the dream of most Londoners, despite it becoming so vastly out of reach for so many.
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Professional
People Moves: Richborough, AGL, Farrells and more
All the latest moves, appointments and promotions from across the property sector.
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Professional
Complete abolition of CIL is the only way to rev up housebuilding
Since its introduction in 2010, the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) has been far from the fairer, faster and more transparent system of securing developer contributions to infrastructure that it was intended to be.