All Property Week articles in 22 October 2021 – Page 6
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News
LendInvest launches homes sustainability debt products
The lender will offer reduced borrowing rates to landlords with more environmentally friendly properties.
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Professional
Reimagined office lobbies can serve as shared cultural hubs
Post-pandemic, the workplace lobby can be redesigned to become the beating heart of an office building.
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Land Registry services take hit due to Covid
HM Land Registry has seen a huge slowdown in the speed of its service as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic – adversely impacting property transactions.
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Professional
Property companies can take steps to counter inequality
Women in Property webinar outlines scale of racial inequity in property and how the issue can be addressed.
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News
Dismissed director urges RICS to ‘show courage’ with changes
One of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) non-executive directors wrongfully dismissed for raising concerns about a financial audit has urged the body’s new interim bosses to “show courage” in changing structures put in place by the previous leadership.
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Insight
Time to fight carbon with carbon
Are you, like me and most Brits, trying to do your bit to save the planet, but totally hacked off by the nihilistic tactics of Insulate Britain? Can I suggest a way to stop the lunatics from gluing themselves to the M25: next time they pounce, turn the heating up ...
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Government criticised for lack of focus on embodied carbon
UKGBC frustrated that there is no reference to embodied carbon in the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy.
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Insight
It’s business as usual in Germany
In a Financial Times opinion piece earlier this month headlined ‘Why Germany is the West’s sanest country’, columnist Gideon Rachman wrote: “The recent German election and its aftermath underline the point; it was a close contest, but the losers accepted the results gracefully. No one tried to claim that the ...
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Professional
Trocadero case a blow for tenants
The High Court recently handed down another decision upholding a landlord’s claim for rent arrears accrued during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Markets
Cordia Blackswan bets on Birmingham
Its Jewellery Quarter schemes are part of a £500m pipeline in the area.
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Professional
How can offices lure staff back?
A recent BBC survey neatly highlighted the situation we find ourselves in as more workers start to return to the office.
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News
Avignon and Valon to build German portfolio
The partnership aims to build a €500m portfolio of industrial, logistics and office assets.
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News
Bidding war for top agency talent escalates
The “bidding war” for top talent in the agency world is escalating as recruitment activity hits the highest levels since 2005, Property Week can reveal.
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News
Local plans in jeopardy after Boris’s ‘green fields’ comments
Other councils may follow Welwyn Hatfield in pausing local plans after PM questions greenfield resi schemes.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Martin Roberts, principal and co-founder of Addington Capital
Martin Roberts, principal and co-founder of Addington Capital, on how he got started in property, his favourite film and radio show, his number-one travel destination and the superpower he wishes he had.
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News
Allsop and Acuitus go big on retail in November catalogues
Better rent collection figures and lower pricing are making retail attractive to investors again, say firms.
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News
Amazon eyes space at Matrix 49 in Bristol
The online retailer considers leasing space at BGO and Equation’s Bristol scheme.
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Insight
Celebrating 10 years of diversity
It’s amazing that it only became illegal to discriminate against people identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual in the workplace in 2003. The property industry’s own landmark moment came in 2011, when Freehold was launched as a networking forum for UK real estate LGBTQI+ professionals.