All Brexit analysis articles – Page 2
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Insight
Outlook for residential sector is bound to improve
Editor: Your article last week, ‘ Institutional investors looking to invest more in the resi sector ’, revealed a not unsurprising trend. With Brexit certainty and the ‘Boris bounce’ effect taking hold, the outlook for property – particularly residential – is bound to improve.
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Insight
No. 10: who stays and who goes?
When Stephen Barclay, the secretary of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union, resigned at 23:01 hours on 31 January as his department wound itself up, he started the reshuffle Boris made clear would follow once we had formally left the EU.
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Insight
It’s no surprise flex office providers are expanding
Editor: Your recent article ‘ Over 1,000 companies to open new post-Brexit offices in UK ’ is further evidence that Brexit-related doom and gloom in the UK property market has been misplaced. The evidence indicates that the UK is still open for business – and the office sector especially looks ...
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News
Will we see a Brexit bounce?
This time next week, we will be officially leaving the EU – or, more accurately, entering a fraught transition period with a frighteningly tight deadline.
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Insight
The latest twists in my sobriety
So Brexit is oven ready , but what will it taste like? REITs rebounded 30% at the end of last year on the Conservatives’ election victory, twice the rise in the equity market. We issued our 2020 Outlook note memorandum ‘Re-selling the Dodo REITs’ and view the recent rebound in ...
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News
European funds’ exposure to UK property halves
The weighting of pan-European property funds to UK property has almost halved since the Brexit vote, reveals data from MSCI’s Pan-European Property Fund Index (PEPFI).
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Professional
New initiative gives fresh hope for affordable housing delivery
Industry is cautiously optimistic that government’s First Homes policy will succeed where Starter Homes failed.
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News
Brexit continues to cloud 2020 outlook for UK property market
Even after the Conservatives’ decisive general election victory in December, Brexit uncertainty is expected to continue to loom over the UK property market in 2020, according to the latest UK Consensus Forecasts report from the Investment Property Forum (IPF).
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News
Fog clears for industry after Conservative election victory
Agents are looking forward to a busier 2020 but concerns remain about upcoming Brexit negotiations.
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Insight
Interview with Art-Invest Real Estate’s Ali Abbas
Art-Invest entered the UK market at a time of Brexit-related political chaos. Emanuele Midolo asks managing partner Ali Abbas why – and what’s next.
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News
Conservatives receive £2.5m from the property industry
Individuals and companies in the sector revealed as major election donors by Electoral Commission data
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Markets
Dashed Brexit hopes may clip airports’ wings
Brexit may not be the duty free bonanza airports had hoped for, but some are still pushing ahead with retail expansion.
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Insight
UK agencies thrive despite uncertain climate
Over the past 12 months, the UK agency sector has remained resilient despite the uncertainty caused by Brexit.
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Markets
Can Welsh regeneration projects survive without EU funding?
Nick Hughes asks how future projects will be funded following the UK’s departure from the EU.
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Insight
Brexit effect on logistics
The UK’s eventual departure from the EU is likely to cause major changes in occupational demand. The industrial and logistics sector will be at the forefront of this change, given its role in creating, moving and storing physical goods.
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News
Industry hopes election will end uncertainty over Brexit
Hung parliament seen as worst result for business planning and investment – but also most likely outcome
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Insight
No need to turn back on Europe
Amid all the political wrangling over Brexit in the last few months, you might have missed a report from the European Systemic Risk Board, Europe’s economic watchdog, that commercial and residential property across Europe has been overvalued.
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Insight
Brexit chaos hits housebuilders
The Muppets, sorry, members of parliament have connived against leaving the EU by today and the chaos our self-serving representatives have visited upon the land is already evident in a slew of profit warnings from some of the housing sector’s hitherto most dependable operators.
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News
Property to be one of UK’s best performing industries in 2020
The UK real estate sector is poised to be among the country’s top five best-performing industries in the coming year, according to research conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) for law firm Irwin Mitchell.
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Insight
Boris Johnson and tax – what to expect?
It might seem all-consuming but negotiating Brexit is not the only major challenge confronting Boris Johnson in the opening months of his tenure as prime minister.