All Covid-19 articles
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InsightWe can work it out
After the scandal and huge losses of recent years, Samit Chopra, WeWork International’s president and chief operating officer, tells Property Week how the flexible office space provider plans to turn a profit this year.
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Insight
Data downplays New York’s office return
One subject above all others obsesses the New York City property world: the extent and future of office return, now that the pandemic appears over.
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Online
How to attract the best talent in a competitive market
With 69% of businesses around the world struggling to recruit the talent they need, it’s more important than ever to make your company as attractive as possible.
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Online
Security threats to property and how to stay a step ahead
The threats faced by the property sector are varied and depend on a number of factors, including how good the security is. The pandemic has also reshaped some of these factors and changed threat levels.
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Insight
Future-proofing the flicks
Times have been tough for cinema operators, but will new experiential models and central locations help them to ride out the storm? Claire Robson asks what the future holds for big-screen venues.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Jamie Bunce, CEO of retirement living operator Inspired Villages
Jamie Bunce, CEO of retirement living operator Inspired Villages, on how he got started in property, his top book and song picks, the historical figure he’d like to befriend and his number-one travel destination.
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Markets
Backing the life sciences boom
With space in traditional locations tight, investors are looking further afield.
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Professional
What do latest judgements mean for the recovery of Covid rent arrears?
Property lawyers and landlords alike have been following the cases of Bank of New York Mellon (International) v Cine-UK and London Trocadero (2015) v Picturehouse Cinemas with trepidation over recent months.
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News
As staff return to offices, how many are ‘quietly quitting’?
On 7 February, the Cabinet Office began collecting statistics on how many civil servants were at work in 19 key central London buildings. Almost all the departments covered have seen a steady resumption of office-based working.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Nivene Powell, head of communities at developer EcoWorld London
Nivene Powell, head of communities at developer EcoWorld London, on how she got started in property, her top TV and book picks, the historical figure she’d like to befriend and how she’d spend a million pounds.
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Insight
The debate around demolition
The challenge for humanity is to urgently and dramatically reduce global carbon emissions.
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Insight
Are alternatives still good value?
As the world plunged into chaos in the spring of 2020, investors rushed to identify the asset classes that would offer the most safety in uncertain times.
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Professional
Nutrient neutrality in the north
Following guidance from Natural England, many property developments have come to a grinding halt to maintain nutrient neutrality, which developers and local authorities (LAs) in the north are not prepared for.
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Professional
The future of hotel investment
It is easy to see why appetite for hotel investment remains.
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Professional
Landlords must give people a reason to be back in the office
Accommodating what employees value in a post-pandemic world will stand businesses in good stead.
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Professional
Accommodating what employees value in a post-pandemic world will stand businesses in good stead
Accommodating what employees value in a post-pandemic world will stand businesses in good stead
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Insight
A perfect storm for the hospitality sector
‘It’s never going to get worse than this’ was a phrase many in the hospitality sector muttered following the unprecedented economic turmoil that the Covid-19 pandemic brought to the sector.
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Insight
Expect ups and downs as tech matures
Property Week’s latest Power of Proptech survey, supported by Freeths, reveals changing attitudes as technologies adopted during the pandemic become embedded in the sector.
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Professional
Can pop-ups boost high streets?
Before the pandemic, pop-up stores were being hailed as the potential saviour of bricks-and-mortar retail. However, with the cost-of-living crisis, rising inflation and continued dominance of ecommerce, is this still the case?
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News
Howard de Walden back in black but ‘bleak’ outlook dampens ambitions
Howard de Walden Estates has returned to a pre-tax profit as a result of a strong post-pandemic recovery, but the difficult national economic outlook has dampened its ambitions for the year ahead.
