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InsightThe ever-changing workplace
How digital tech is shifting the focus from facilities to communities.
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Online
Property update: capital allowances s198 – use it or lose it
Since April 2014, action has been required to be taken when acquiring a commercial property, otherwise valuable tax relief could be lost.
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Online
The art of maintaining the best possible gallery environment
Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has just concluded an extensive facility upgrade with help from long-term technology partner Honeywell.
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Online
Hidden building data can create a better occupant experience and cut overheads
Whether your building is classed as smart or not, the systems in it are already creating vast amounts of data, which is probably not being used to its full potential. So how can facility managers exploit this resource and use it to deliver measureable benefits for their buildings’ occupants?
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Insight
Living it up: student accommodation trends
Rebecca Paddick asks two sector experts, what are the latest trends in student living, and how well is higher education meeting demand?
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Online
Why smart buildings are integral to smart business
With today’s world of continuous technological evolution, there is a real opportunity for properties to undergo a similar transformation, if they haven’t already. But what makes this possible?
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Blogs
Video: surveying apprenticeships with UCEM
Across two interview videos, UCEM principal Ashley Wheaton talks to Property Week about the institution’s history from providing correspondence courses to becoming the leading provider of supported online education in the Built Environment, with more than 4,000 students worldwide.
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Blogs
Video: using property data in the new build market
The average UK homeowner is now staying in their property for 21 years, according to data from Hometrack. With this in mind, new homes developers have a challenge on their hands; how do you engage existing homeowners in this slow moving market, and keep ahead of your competition?
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Blogs
Helping to build Heathrow will help to build Britain’s future
As Heathrow prepares the final airport expansion masterplan, it is inviting proposals from UK businesses and leaders that will help the airport maximise the benefits for the consumer, minimise impacts for local people and ensure the most innovative methods and technology are utilised as construction begins.
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Blogs
Why property professionals are using retargeting
Retargeting enables businesses to maximise the effectiveness of their digital marketing, by displaying your adverts to people who’ve already visited your site as they continue to browse the internet.
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Online
Breathe life into new build marketing
Running out of steam and needing a fresh perspective to give your new build marketing efforts more impact?
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Insight
Video: GL Hearn's Jules Bickers on the impact of the Housing White Paper
Speaking exclusively to Property Week , housing consultancy director at GL Hearn Jules Bickers, talks about changes in the residential sector since the introduction of the Housing White Paper.
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Insight
Video: Lockton Real Estate - taking the risk out of property transactions
Speaking exclusively to Property Week , Lockton Real Estate trio Ben Warman, Jonathan Hackett and Toni Longman talk about the changing climate for clients of the real estate division of the world’s largest privately owned insurance broker.
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Insight
Profit potential of parking: turn empty tarmac into reliable revenue
The past two years, we’ve been on a rollercoaster ride of recession-dreading and recovery-hoping. But despite the market’s fickleness, good old boom and bust demands it adheres to some rules - and according to Dalio’s 18-year-cycle, correction is on the doorstep and recession in the post.
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Blogs
Future proofing new build sales rates
Housebuilders need to start looking outside of the first time buyers market to drive sales.
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Online
Back to nature: embracing biophillic design in build-to-rent
Benjamin Hall, director of LOFT Group’s Twenty Twenty Living, gives his views on the importance of embracing the natural world within build-to-rent design.
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Blogs
Regulation and tax changes will start to impact on investors in 2018
There have been several governmental and regulatory initiatives impacting landlords and investors over the past 18 months but importantly, 2018 represents the first year in which the impact of these changes will actually be felt in the shape of their tax bill.
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Blogs
Make the most of your online marketing
There is a general acceptance in the industry that the commercial agency sector is behind the residential sector with regard to online marketing.
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Professional
The risks of hiring the wrong contractor – and five steps to hiring the right one!
Contractors are of great importance to the property management industry, as routine and unexpected maintenance is a daily necessity in the sector.
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Online
Design is the deciding variable in the Private Rental Sector
Benjamin Hall, director of LOFT, gives his views on what modern residential builds require to stay competitive.
