All Comment articles – Page 5
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InsightCreating the new office normal
Our CBRE EMEA Occupier Survey 2020, published this week, is a timely reminder of why now more than ever, as we look at returning to office-based work, we need to focus on strategic decision-making that combines the ‘people agenda’ with a robust real estate and technology strategy.
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Is the PM going to call in the cavalry?
What does Taylor Wimpey CEO Pete Redfern know that the rest of the embattled housebuilding sector doesn’t? The UK’s second-biggest developer is back in the land market. Could it have had the heads-up that Boris is about to call in the cavalry?
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Offer a ‘third way’ for the over-65s
Reams have been written about the older generation during the Covid-19 pandemic, but sometimes their own voices are overlooked.
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On the road to net zero
The coronavirus pandemic has concentrated minds as we focus on keeping safe and well, but the sustainability agenda hasn’t gone away.
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The pandemic presents an opportunity to redraw the urban landscape
The pandemic, or modern plague as it is now being referred to, has handed us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvent our cities and urban landscape and to set us on a different path.
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A temporary stop to traffic could kick-start Soho’s recovery
For some time, I have argued that the corona cure is worse than the disease. To keep overweight septuagenarians like me alive, the next generation is paying an awfully high price. And closer to home, the damage to our economy is utterly unimaginable.
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Private investors are developing a healthy habit
The front line has taken on a new meaning in the past few months, and while those essential workers are at the forefront of keeping the country healthy, the private investor community remains keen to buy assets and gain income.
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Facing up to the post-Covid challenge
At the start of the year, I shared my thoughts in this magazine about what lay ahead for property. I felt excited by what a new majority government meant for investor confidence. The industry, it seemed, was starting the new decade with renewed vigour.
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A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Alexander Graham Bell’s words of wisdom “when one door closes, another opens” are well known, but less famous is that he went on to add “but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us”. ...
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Invest now in the ‘new normal’
“It’s wise to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
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A silver lining in a year to forget
This has been a year to forget so far. On 20 February, global equity markets plunged in a crash rivalling the 2008 downturn. Though they have rallied thanks to central bank support, hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine and a rebound in business activity as governments ease lockdown, things could take ...
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The market will survive this crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had the most significant impact on the world economy since the global financial crisis (GFC).
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Plenty of life left in city offices
How fragile yet dynamic the workplace has become over the past four or five decades. Ever since Sir Stuart Lipton and DEGW produced the Orbit Study to underpin the then revolutionary occupational and related investment case for Broadgate, change has been piled on top of change in a never-ending quest ...
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The investment case for UK senior housing
Investment in our later living market has risen markedly in recent years, but what does the future hold?
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If we fail on planning, plan to fail
These are highly unusual times by anyone’s standards. We are all trying to plan for the future in an environment where we do not know what tomorrow will bring. We need to use this time to drive the change that will see us come out of this crisis securely.
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Diversity will gather momentum
After eight weeks of lockdown, most of us have adapted to new ways of working, if not fully embraced them. Some seem to enjoy the absence of a commute, with more time to themselves or among family. Others cannot wait to get back to the office to mix with colleagues ...
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The City of London is a resilient place
Covid-19 presents unprecedented challenges for all of us, but at the City of London Corporation we are emphatically open for business.
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Build homes for heroes
Every Thursday, people across the UK stand on their doorsteps to applaud and cheer NHS workers, to show how much we value them and acknowledge their huge dedication and sacrifice during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Why we need to help those small business in serviced offices that are falling through the cracks of the Covid-19 Grant Scheme
When on March 24th, 2020 the Government announced its support for small businesses and introduced a Covid-19 grant scheme “to cover fixed costs”, it could have chosen several criteria for eligibility, such as size of company turnover or having less than 5 employees.
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Propertyshe perspectives: our new reality, climate change and the Mipim editor’s dinner
It has been an extremely steep learning curve for all of us. And it has been particularly impressive how office workers, who have been accustomed to a daily commute to an office, have been able to migrate relatively seamlessly to working from home.
