All Covid-19 articles
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OnlineBellway marks post-lockdown recovery with 71% leap in annual profit
Housebuilder Bellway produced a 71% leap in profit in the year to the end of July, batting away the impact of lingering Covid-19 restrictions.
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News
Durham Asset Management acquires Halifax hotel
Durham Asset Management has acquired The White Swan Hotel in Halifax, which had a £1.5m guide price, from FICO Holding UK.
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Online
How to demonstrate real confidence in a development appraisal
Confidence is a big part of being a property developer. But having confidence in yourself isn’t enough. You need to convey that confidence to others too, so they’re eager to come along for the ride – including lenders.
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News
Broker says post-Covid market conditions may benefit London restaurateurs
Restaurateurs looking to open outlets in Mayfair have a “rare opportunity” to acquire a location in the area due to weakened post-Covid market conditions, according to London restaurant property broker Dean Gambles & Co.
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Online
The government must show leadership on building safety, says Network Homes
Helen Evans, CEO of Network Homes, and Jamie Ratcliff, the housing association’s executive director of people and partnerships, sat down with Andrew Teacher of Blackstock Consulting to discuss building safety, four years on from the Grenfell Tower fire.
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News
Why London is still calling
When the UK first entered lockdown in March 2020, the impact was nowhere more stark than in London.
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Insight
Spec schemes: small can be beautiful
Editor: When it comes to speculative development, most attention focuses on the big shed developments, but that’s by no means the whole story. Smaller-scale speculative development is on the rise, particularly when it comes to industrial space, and there are a number of good reasons for this.
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Insight
Dynamic UK alternative debt market is growing
Editor: In the article ‘Debt funding for property deals fell 15% year on year in 2020’, AEW appears to include alternative lenders in its data, given its conclusion: “We don’t expect the current cycle of cost-driven inflation to be long-lasting…allowing banks and other non-bank lenders to start lending less conservatively.”
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Markets
The office return is slow but steady
Take-up looks good but is not expected to rise significantly until spring.
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Professional
What does planning reform pause mean for the housing industry?
In recent weeks, the future direction of the government’s reforms to the planning system seem to have gone off course from the vision set out in the planning white paper, where the government proposed to tear the planning system down “and start again”.
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News
Hotel investment volumes yet to return to pre-pandemic levels
UK hotel investment volumes hit £1.26bn in the first half of 2021 and are expected to pick up further in the second half, but are still significantly adrift of pre-pandemic levels, reveals data from CBRE.
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Markets
High tide for Welsh house prices
House prices have hit a 17-year high, but how long will the boom time last.
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News
Q&A: Silbury partner Gavin Eustace on resi and retirement
Gavin Eustace explains why he set up the business and what he plans to do next.
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News
Gove hints at housing policy shift from South East to north
New housing secretary suggests in party conference speech that it will build more in north and less in south.
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Professional
Sector collaboration is the future
The office, university campus and hospital are all building types under intense scrutiny, with these sectors converging to shape new ‘innovation districts’.
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Insight
Inflation cloud looms on the horizon
At the end of the day, all economics and its subset of business, of which real estate is but one segment, are about supply and demand.
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News
Drive-thrus, gyms and cinemas lead recovery in leisure sector
Investment volumes are expected to recover as post-lockdown demand bounces back following brutal 2020.
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Insight
Breaking the menopause taboo
Menopause Awareness Day (18 October) focuses on a topic that until very recently would have caused no discussion among senior leaders in the property industry, and if it had it probably would have been the subject of a poor joke. That is the reality of the way our industry was ...
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Professional
The rapid grocery delivery boom
No retail and logistics specialist will have been surprised by the news that ecommerce businesses, responding to high customer demand during the pandemic, have contributed to a jump in warehouse lettings, or that one of the ecommerce disruptors within the retail sector has been rapid grocery delivery services.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Federica Buricco, associate at CallisonRTKL
Federica Buricco, associate at CallisonRTKL, on how she got started in property, her book and podcast recommendations, her number-one travel destination and the historical figure she’d pick to be her friend.
