All Comment articles – Page 5
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InsightDrive economic growth by investing in infrastructure
Continuing uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations has led to negative sentiment regarding the London commercial property market.
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Professional
Industry committed to making retail places accessible to all
Shopping and accessing entertainment come high on the list of challenging experiences for people with disabilities, both physical and hidden such as autism, dementia and mental health conditions, and the number of people facing these barriers is increasing.
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Japanese beef up their appetite for UK real estate
Recently, in the same week that Japan’s biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial, announced it was creating 180 new investment banking jobs in London in the hope of boosting income outside Japan, Westfield revealed its plans to open Europe’s largest Japanese food hall at its west London shopping centre.
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Britain is doing better than the naysayers make out
It is worth recalling that David Cameron, doing much better than expected, won a 12-seat majority in the House of Commons in May 2015 and we all looked forward to five years of strong and stable business-friendly government.
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Professional
Delay to Greater Manchester plan is an opportunity for wider input
The recent announcement of a delay in the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) was no great surprise. Burnham made no secret of his intention to undertake a “radical re-write” of Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) planning policy.
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Insight
Build-to-rent: ignore lifecycle modelling at your peril
I have been modelling since 1998. Lifecycle modelling, of course. Or whole-life-cost modelling.
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Insight
Brexit doom-mongers have been proved wrong
After my last two articles this year avoided the subject, I make no apology for returning to Brexit.
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Insight
Any Budget meddling must boost supply, not demand
If Philip Hammond chooses to stimulate housing in his 22 November Budget, he should study the record of his predecessors and stimulate supply rather than demand.
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Insight
Hellish row between Duchy and the Palace over ‘Paradise Papers’
At some point this week the trustees of the Duchy of Lancaster will surely have sat down with a senior courtier from Buckingham Palace to discuss the ‘Paradise Papers’.
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Insight
Why it's time to back the Cinderella of student housing
When it comes to the student accommodation market, the paradigm is that investors want something new, purpose built and with scale.
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Insight
Tech is here to stay, so embrace it and prosper
Technology comes in many forms, from advanced CCTV and access control systems to complex trend analysis helping to inform investment decisions.
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Insight
Talk of ‘death’ of the physical store is a little premature
Most shopkeepers have been grappling with the trials, tribulations, opportunities and glories that the internet has brought to retailing for a couple of decades now.
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A bold chancellor would impose top-end council tax hikes to tackle stamp duty
“Between a rock and a hard place” was how the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) described chancellor Philip Hammond’s predicament as he contemplates his next budget later this month.
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Professional
Developers are paying too much for permitted development sites
All developers face the issue of how different councils interpret the national permitted development (PD) policy.
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Insight
Government must now act to solve housing crisis
As Samantha Partington’s look at Sajid Javid’s Rent to Buy proposals and other recent articles show, housing is suddenly climbing the ladder of political importance.
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Rent to Buy plan is the least we need
The recent Rent to Buy proposal, whereby tenants would rent a property for five years with the option to buy it at a discount at the end, shows that there are creative ways to tackle undersupply on the market.
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Online
Landlords should beware stricter lending criteria
Buy-to-let lending has been a major topic in recent months and from the end of September, banks and other financial institutions were obliged to apply stricter lending criteria before approving new requests for lending from certain private landlords.
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Online
Brexit: looking forward means looking back
News of historic data surrounding the performance of UK commercial property immediately after the referendum vote in June 2016 has played a role in providing the context needed to reassure the market, as well as those all-important overseas investors that have, obviously, shown even greater appeal as the potential for ...
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Insight
Livery movement working to help young succeed
As my year as master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors came to an end yesterday evening I would like to cast some light on the livery movement and how it interacts with the property industry.
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Insight
Speed is key if sector is to adapt to ecommerce challenge
The ecommerce phenomenon is having an increasingly profound effect on the logistics supply chain.
