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All Comment articles – Page 9
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InsightTreasury creates false economy
There’s a very splendid brass plate on the door of 10 Downing Street, but it doesn’t say ‘Office of the Prime Minister’.
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InsightPrioritising sustainability
The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed investment into the logistics market following the unexpected spike in demand from ecommerce and third-party logistics occupiers.
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InsightDig into the data for I&L sector success
The past few years have been tumultuous for the industrial and logistics (I&L) market. Despite 2020 being the worst year for the UK economy in more than three centuries, the I&L market flourished due to a combination of increased reliance on online shopping and demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).
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InsightTackling the UK’s warehousing shortage
The current warehousing shortage across London and the South East is causing unnecessary delays along the supply chain and holding back much-needed growth across the British economy. While the shortage is causing headaches for businesses of all sizes across Britain, the issue is by no means a new one.
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InsightJefferies’ Mike Prew on the stubborn market
As the holidays approach, every parent’s car journey nightmare is kids at the end of their tether with choruses of “Are we there yet?” REIT share prices are being defined by stubborn inflation but the UK, it seems, is also nowhere near arriving at the 2% target.
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InsightReal Estate Balance’s Liz Peace on adopting the right mindset for life sciences innovation
The real estate industry seems to display a lemming-like tendency to follow a fad. Once it was shopping centres, then student accommodation, followed by big sheds and logistics. And now it is life sciences.
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InsightSAVE Britain’s Heritage’s Henrietta Billings on why reusing buildings is in everyone’s interests
Housing secretary Michael Gove’s decision on the pivotal M&S Oxford Street case is due any day, eagerly awaited by those on both sides of the argument.
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InsightProperty Elite’s Jen Lemen on why diversity is not optional
Having worked with a wide spectrum of property and construction professionals over the past 15 years, I have seen some of the best, and worst, examples of best practice in terms of diversity.
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InsightCampus Living Villages’ Paddy Jackman on why universities play a vital role in the national agenda
As with so much in the wider property world, higher education and subsequently the student accommodation market is very much subject to the vagaries of government policy.
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NewsEverybody needs good NABERS
At a breakfast briefing last month, Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO of the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP), showed a slide depicting a very strange situation – but one which she found not the least bit surprising.
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InsightKey steps on the road to net zero
Real estate is the number-one emitter of greenhouse gases, accounting for 37% of global emissions, according to UN figures. If the world is to achieve globally agreed net zero targets, it is imperative the built environment adapts immediately – a commitment that demands investment of $5trn (£4trn) a year.
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OnlineInvestment at local level key to improving planning
Editor: On 4 July, the Local Government Association released some analysis, timed to coincide with its annual conference, showing that local authorities across England were facing a £2bn funding gap in the coming year due to continued high inflation.
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OnlineProgress on energy use is essential
Editor: I agree with your latest leader column that the Climate Change Committee’s negative assessment of progress in decarbonising buildings is deeply worrying.
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InsightHome economics: a new enthusiasm for Labour
Alastair Stewart explores Labour’s growing appeal.
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InsightEDI Q&A: Mark Capanda, senior associate director, BNP Paribas Real Estate
Talking about your sexuality and bringing your whole self to work is not always easy. Mark Capanda, senior associate director, lease advisory, at BNP Paribas Real Estate, shares his experiences of being openly gay in the property sector and explains how employer support, having role models and networks can help.
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InsightBlend’s David Alcock on why Sunak cannot afford to put housing on the backburner
At a time when Britain is suffering from a severe housing crisis, especially in the most prosperous places in the Greater South East, this government has taken an increasingly anti-housebuilding and anti-business policy environment stance that is threatening to leave thousands of much-needed new homes on the drawing board and ...
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InsightEDI Q&A: Paddy Allen, chair, Pathways to Property
Historically, a traditional route was followed to enter the property market but this doesn’t always have to be the case, as Paddy Allen, head of operational capital markets at Colliers and chair of Pathways to Property, explains.
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InsightIWG’s Mark Dixon on the rebirth of suburbs, towns and countryside through hybrid working
There is no doubt that we are in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work: a shift that, by enabling people to choose to work the way they want, is overwhelmingly positive.
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InsightPackaged Living’s Edwina Coward on Liverpool’s transformation and the growing demand for BTR
Whether you’re a fan of Eurovision or not, it was difficult to observe the crowds pouring into the Eurovision village in Liverpool and not feel a sense of joy that the contest was being held in the North West.
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NewsDon’t duck diversity
Loraine Martins OBE has a blunt message for any business leader who doesn’t feel comfortable discussing race, gender or any other aspect of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI): get comfortable.
