All Property Week articles in 6 November 2020 – Page 6
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Savills raises £43m from 87 lots at pre-lockdown auction
Star lots included a Birmingham care home, an east London petrol station and an Essex apartment building
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Amazon on the hunt for 40 new parcel hubs across the UK
Amazon has launched a requirement for 40 new parcel hubs across the UK, as it endeavours to keep to its two-day delivery promise in the face of skyrocketing Covid-19 demand.
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Property Week Digital Edition – 6 November 2020
Meet the people making a big mark in the residential sector as we unveil this year’s cohort of RESI Trailblazers – Fifth Wall managing director Roelof Opperman on why the venture capital firm is launching a proptech fund – As new lockdown bites, retail tenants and landlords are adopting strategies ...
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Professional
Can a well-written S106 agreement make a proposal more acceptable?
The government’s housing white paper is creating waves throughout the Home Counties, encouraging a stack of proposals for new settlements in the countryside. Many of these proposals will be bitterly fought, particularly by local residents and councillors.
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Insight
Welcome to the ‘human age’
There comes a time in every relationship when that conversation comes up.
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£42bn of capital to be deployed in resi investment sectors by 2025
Investors in the UK’s residential investment sectors (student, senior living and PRS) are seeking to increase their exposure significantly over the next five years, according to a new report from Knight Frank.
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Sainsbury’s to close more than 400 Argos stores
Sainsbury’s is set to close 420 standalone Argos stores as it responds to changing customer demands.
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Insight
The retirement sector needs support
Editor: Select committee reports, parliamentary questions, ministerial questions and a plethora of academic research – the case for the expansion of the housing with care sector has never been clearer.
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Markets
Lack of supply for later living
The retirement living sector is under strain to meet demand as the population ages.
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Insight
Q&A: Richard Jackson on the living sectors
The co-founder and managing director of Apache Capital Partners talks about its JV with Moda, multifamily housing, institutional investor appetite, the challenges of the pandemic and what the future holds.
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Insight
People still want to own homes
The prime minister’s plans to turn ‘generation rent into generation buy’ through government-backed 95% mortgages led to dire warnings of another financial crisis driven by risky lending. But while critics are right to urge the PM not to repeat past mistakes, his fundamental aim to boost home ownership is sound. ...
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Put health at the heart of homes
If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is that our health and wellbeing have never been more important.
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View from the top: Roelof Opperman, technology investment managing director of Fifth Wall
Fifth Wall’s managing director of real estate technology investment talks to Property Week about the venture capital firm’s fund launch, the three ‘buckets’ of proptech and what the post-Covid future holds.
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Insight
Trailblazers see through the data fog
One of the greatest challenges for UK property professionals during the pandemic is making sense of the market data that in normal times provides important clues about the outlook for sales and lettings.
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Insight
Offices will be crucial to recovery
Editor: It is troubling to see UK workers once again confined to their homes, as we enter a second national lockdown.
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Croydon Council under fire for property investments
MHCLG launches review into council’s borrowing and the finances of its housebuilding vehicle Brick By Brick
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Spin class: Lockdown II
Lockdown II, the sequel, has begun. PR industry body the PRCA is calling for more government support, or Christmas will be “a bleak time” for agencies. Sophie and I agree Rishi Sunak is lying awake at night thinking about how to support Pastis Communications. The rent holiday ...
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Funding options limited for removal of unsafe cladding
Critics say timeline for applications is unrealistic and many owners and leaseholders are ineligible for funding
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Q&A: Sigma Capital chair on future of PRS
Ian Sutcliffe says he expects no medium-term fall in demand for rental homes