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OnlineRegeneration: worthwhile not meanwhile
Ever since we moved from being hunter gatherers to farmers about 12,000 years ago we have wanted to make land productive. It is still true today. A farmer looks at a piece of unused land, sees it as waste and wants to change that.
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Insight
Voice of property must be heard in these uncertain times
The voice of commercial property is silent. Newspapers overflow with reports of the negative effects of property development and overseas investment on our society - who is spelling out the real facts? Who is fighting for fair taxes and regulations of our sector?
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Insight
Student accommodation providers must up their game
Investor interest in student accommodation has yet to show signs of a slowdown, with investment volumes for Q1 2017 up £0.7bn on the same period last year, according to the recent Quarterly Student Housing Index from JLL.
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Insight
The UK needs social housing now more than ever
Recent events have highlighted some big gaps in our society. The general election served to show that the divisions from last year’s EU referendum remain and are unlikely to heal any time soon, while the recent Grenfell Tower tragedy has shockingly underlined how we have disregarded housing support for those ...
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Professional
Andy Burnham’s spatial framework rewrite isn’t necessarily bad news
Andy Burnham, the new mayor of Greater Manchester, has been true to his mayoral campaign commitment to undertake a radical rewrite of the emerging spatial framework, most noticeably with a view to rolling back planned changes to the green belt.
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News
The true cost of upgrading Britain's towers
All residential towers are different, and as such the cost of addressing the fire safety issues vary on an individual basis.
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Insight
It’s business as usual come what May after awful election campaign
Having predicted a Tory majority of 50 the last time I wrote for this august organ, I approach the future with some diffidence. I will not be alone.
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Insight
Tories must implement white paper
The Conservative manifesto promised to ‘fix’ the dysfunctional housing market so that there are affordable and secure houses for all, and the new housing minister Alok Sharma has to follow through on this pledge
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Online
Brexit: one year on
A year ago today the UK electorate made the now familiar trip to the polling station and took one of the most momentous decisions in our nation’s democratic history.
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Insight
Storey launch will plug gap in flexible workspace market
“We can’t control the wifi”; “the coffee machine always breaks, so everyone has to be their own barista”; “either my PA is always getting up and down to answer the door or one of the team is”.
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Insight
As ownership falls, the private rented sector will boom
The millennial generation’s living habits are changing. Responding to these trends with the provision of suitable housing will help to bridge the supply and demand imbalances among a demographic that is experiencing the lowest-ever levels of home ownership.
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Insight
Property will remain attractive despite political turmoil
While the election has caused huge uncertainty in Westminster, we must remember that political drama does not always translate to upheaval in the property investment market.
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Insight
Everything must change after housing’s 9/11 – there cannot be another Grenfell
Everything changed on the morning of 14 June 2017. Grenfell Tower was UK housing’s 9/11. From now on, more homes need to be built - and be built better. Hang the ideology.
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Insight
Grenfell tragedy makes social housing top priority
The horrifying event last week at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington and resulting anger will force the industry and Government to face up to the challenge of funding for the delivery of affordable housing, as well as its quality and safety.
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Online
World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride Blog: the final countdown
There are only two days left before over 800 cyclists come together to embark on the World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride - and chairman of EMEA retail at CBRE, Malcolm Dalgleish, tells us about his excitement ahead of his third participation.
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Insight
Store Wars: the Empire Fights Back
Physical stores generally have been given the ultimate vote of confidence from the unlikeliest of sources. Supposed high street tormentor-in-chief Amazon is to fully traverse the divide into store-based retailing through the $13.7bn purchase of Whole Foods.
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Online
World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride Blog: final week
Lisa Commins, a senior surveyor at CBRE talks about taking on the World’s Biggest Property Bike Ride for the first time ever.
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Insight
Measure twice – you only get to cut once
In my column in March, I described how I was encouraged by the industry’s dialogue with government and observed that, despite most people’s views that Brexit was bad for the UK, it appeared we were looking to the future and trying to make the best of a challenging situation.
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Insight
Hung parliament brings uncertainty – and opportunity
With no party winning an outright majority at the election and the process for Britain leaving the EU to be initiated with key meetings shortly, the country still dealing with the aftermath of its third terror attack in three months and Trump ruling the US via a series of erratic ...
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Insight
Next time the Tories must offer a positive vision
At the start of the year, I wrote in my Helical board paper how 2017 might unfold politically across Europe. Nowhere in my musings was there the prospect of a UK general election.
