All Comment articles – Page 4

  • Market shares
    Online

    Equities analyst Alastair Stewart on the adage of buying on the rumour, selling on the good

    2023-01-26T07:00:00Z

    There’s an old stock market adage, dating to less assiduously policed times: buy on the rumour, sell on the news. At least when it comes to good rumours. 

  • Net zero
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    UK’s net zero plan must not overlook the obvious

    2023-01-26T00:00:00Z

    MP Chris Skidmore’s Net Zero Review laudably focuses on making homes more energy efficient, but I join my property industry colleagues in calling for greater collaboration between the public and private sectors to truly tackle the UK’s energy efficiency challenge.

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    Rates revaluation is a boost for retail

    2023-01-26T00:00:00Z

    It is welcome news that M&S is planning a £480m investment across its UK stores, generating, as reported, more than 3,400 jobs and opening five new full-service stores: in Leeds White Rose, Liverpool One, the Bullring Birmingham, Manchester Trafford Centre and Lakeside Thurrock.

  • Science lab
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    Ashby Capital’s Peter Ferrari on whether life sciences can throw a life line to London

    2023-01-25T07:00:00Z

    After a turbulent second half of 2022, exemplified by shrinking investment volumes as buyers kept their powder dry amid elevated inflation, rising interest rates and geo-political uncertainty, predictions for 2023 were understandably gloomy.

  • Hugo Reeve, land and development director and co-founder, BRiCS Development
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    BRiCS Development’s Hugo Reeve on solutions to help SMEs deliver

    2023-01-23T07:00:00Z

    In the past few weeks, several of Britain’s big developers have put out warnings about slowing or scaling back activity this year, owing to challenging operating and regulatory conditions. 

  • Roxana Mohammadian- Molina
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    Blend’s Roxana Mohammadian-Molina on the three property trends to watch for in 2023

    2023-01-23T07:00:00Z

    We are undoubtably living through times of unprecedented economic uncertainty and financial volatility, the consequences of which are being felt most severely by many in the housing market. As 2023 gets under way, here’s my take on the three property trends to watch for in 2023.

  • Cyber-security
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    Essensys’s James Shannon on the importance of cybersecurity

    2023-01-20T09:00:00Z

    Think cybersecurity and your mind can be drawn to clandestine government agents targeting each other’s state-level digital infrastructure during times of crisis behind closed doors. 

  • Investment
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    Dundee council's leader on Scotland’s one-stop shop for inward investment

    2023-01-19T14:10:00Z

    Given the political uncertainty and rising costs, there is a concern that the UK is becoming less attractive to foreign investors. However, Scotland is leading the rebound in inward investment activity.

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    Helping residents to save energy

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    It was encouraging to hear chancellor Jeremy Hunt talking to the Select Committee recently about the government’s ambitions to help people with energy saving by providing tips and advice, but also advocating for people to take responsibility for their own energy consumption as part of a government campaign. 

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    Community Land Auctions not a practical solution

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The levelling-up bill with all of its guises and amends has certainly kept the planning and residential sectors debating. Comments in the media are plentiful every time there’s a revision, and the Community Land Auctions amendment is no different, having been originally tabled in July last year and now back ...

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    All eyes will be on Gove this year

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The secretary of state for levelling up etc, Michael Gove, is going to loom large in the lives of property folk, planners and architects over the coming year. 

  • Workspace
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    Zone workspaces to cater for all

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Neurodiversity is a term that is increasingly in use these days. But what does it mean and how can the property world support neurodiversity in a meaningful way?

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    Saluting those ahead of their time

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    The new year brought sad news of the passing of property icon Godfrey Bradman, best known for his 1980s partnership with Sir Stuart Lipton’s Stanhope to develop the City of London’s Broadgate scheme, which then prime minister Margaret Thatcher described at the launch as the “largest development in the City ...

  • Woman shopper shutterstock_1214612407 Willy Barton
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    Retail faces sharp downturn in 2023

    2023-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer and Tesco are the latest in a list of major high-street stores that reported better-than-expected sales over the Christmas period. Bricks-and-mortar retailers had taken a bit of a battering in the months prior as inflation hit and rolling industrial strikes affected footfall, so a positive result over ...

  • Brownfield land site
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    Borehole Solutions’ John Rodgman on the importance of environmental remediation on brownfield sites

    2023-01-16T09:00:00Z

    We all appreciate the importance of caring for our environment. However, despite our best efforts, including recycling and buying local, drastic intervention is required to truly make a difference.

  • Pension funds
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    Opportunity knocks with SSAS

    2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Against a backdrop of rising inflation, political uncertainty and widespread industrial action, the pandemic’s lingering effect upon commercial property values has been striking. Rising interest rates, meanwhile, will continue to exert downward pressure across the industry. 

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    Heritage projects play a vital role

    2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The property industry has sophisticated measures to build social impact into new projects.

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    In-use metric more valuable than EPCs

    2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

    With rising energy costs and a recession expected throughout most of next year, we’re all too aware that energy efficiency will be top of the real estate agenda in 2023.

  • Finance
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    It’s up to us to lay foundations of economic recovery

    2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

    There is no denying that the economic forecast for 2023 appears bleak for the built environment sector, with property values set to fall and construction rates to slow.

  • Canary Wharf
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    New flight path for Canary Wharf

    2023-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Tom Venner’s first public statement since joining Canary Wharf Group (CWG) as development director last July offers one clue about his main task. The job in question being to draw up a new masterplan covering the 130-acre estate.