All Covid-19 articles
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NewsDerwent quarterly rent collection rises as London emerges from lockdown
Derwent said it has collected 93% of rent for the March 2021 quarter day, up from 87% on April 13.
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News
Landlords and tenants lock horns over hospitality rents
Parties at loggerheads over what should happen to rent payments and £2.5bn in arrears post evictions ban
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Markets
Freeport East tastes freedom
Felixstowe and Harwich area set for investment and regeneration boost.
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Insight
Driving data-led sustainability
Many businesses have committed to net zero and sustainability targets that could have a significant, positive impact on climate change. The world’s largest asset managers have joined a group of investors committing to hit net zero.
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Insight
Progress is vital to meet the new climate target
The UK government recently announced that it would be aiming to reduce UK net greenhouse gas emissions by 78% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels. This new target builds on (and does not replace) the existing target to reduce UK net greenhouse gas emissions by 68% by 2030.
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Professional
Industry leading the charge in pursuit of net zero objectives
Amid a lack of legislation, stakeholders across the industry are switching gears to meet UK’s 2050 goal.
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News
Savills report joins up the dots on tackling carbon emissions
Comprehensive review indicates increasing importance of environmentally friendly features for homebuyers.
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News
Q&A: Knight Frank’s Tim Hyatt on the housing market boom
The head of UK residential business talks about Covid, market trends and the future of estate agency
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Insight
How supermarkets bounced back
Who would have thought ahead of this terrible pandemic that as a result of structural adjustments to the grocery trade, UK supermarket impairments would be written back to the tune of a quarter of a billion pounds in the case of Morrisons and Tesco UK alone?
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Insight
‘Adapt and Make Better’ instead
The government’s loosely defined ‘Build Back Better’ mantra suggests construction of new buildings and infrastructure will be one of the engines of economic recovery, but what might this mean in practice?
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Online
High Court rejects bid to bring forward hospitality reopening
Hospitality bosses have lost a legal challenge for a faster reopening of indoor dining in England.
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Online
Will zoom have a role post lockdown, the challenges of valuing flex workspace, The Climate Crisis Challenge shortlisted, carbon reduction, interview with L&Q’s Fiona Fletcher-Smith
Hopefully, we will continue to integrate zoom and other platforms into our events post lockdown as they have enabled some international panels that wouldn’t otherwise be possible or viable.
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Insight
Industrial must be sustainable
Industrials were the star performer in 2020 as Covid-19 not only fast forwarded the growth in online retail, but also prompted manufacturers and retailers to review their supply chains and hold extra stock of key items.
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Professional
Physical and digital security are vital to flex-space working
Having the right security tools in place can foster trust with your tenants and safeguard your proposition.
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Insight
Demand for industrial and logistics space continues to rocket
The pandemic has seen appetite for industrial and logistics space rocket. Property Week asks whether demand will keep growing… and if the supply will be there to satisfy it.
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Professional
Q&A: Five minutes with Charlotte Crawley, culture and experience director at Navana Property Group
Charlotte Crawley, culture and experience director at Navana Property Group, on how she got started in property, the challenges she has overcome and her advice for someone starting out in the industry.
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Professional
Cutting down embodied carbon
The real estate sector is just waking up to the fact that reducing operational emissions in the built environment is the easier part of the net zero carbon challenge – the more difficult part is tackling embodied carbon.
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Professional
Benefits of reduced energy use
A viral video during the pandemic shows young people in Paris using parkour skills to reach the kill switches for the illuminated signs of shuttered shops on the locked-down Champs-Élysées.
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Online
Investors show growing appetite for food sector
The food sector has become “the new core” in retail property investment, according to a new Savills report.
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Online
Evolution away from long leases creates opportunities for investors, says Ian Marcus
Ian Marcus OBE is a real estate industry veteran known for being Credit Suisse’s chairman of real estate investment banking and roles chairing the BPF and advising firms such as Secure Income Reit and Eastdil Secured, and for his charity work supporting the Prince of Wales.
