All Energy Crisis articles
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InsightOptimising efficiency: The glaring hole in energy strategy
What if there was a way for UK buildings to reduce both their emissions and their energy bills by a significant amount, for minimal financial outlay?
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Insight
Brace for the impact of real austerity
In 1947, as he was about to present his Budget, Labour’s Hugh Dalton, the then chancellor of the exchequer, let slip to an old friend: “No more on tobacco; a penny on beer; something on dogs and pools but not on horses; increase in purchase tax, but only on articles ...
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Insight
Insulation from the energy crisis
Vincent Bryant, CEO and co-founder of Deepki, discusses the importance of improving energy efficiency across property portfolios if managers are to avoid the worst this winter.
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Online
Energy efficiency is a breeze with Glide Labs
Ensuring that buildings perform as efficiently as possible has never been more important.
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News
SSE and Oxford Properties plan UK-wide EV charging network
SSE Energy Solutions, part of the FTSE-100 energy group, has signed an electric vehicle (EV) charging partnership with real estate investor Oxford Properties (Oxford).
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Online
UK homes: accelerating the transition
Weather patterns around the world are changing, and extreme weather events are increasing in frequency, becoming more severe and unpredictable. At the same time a rapid increase in energy costs, particularly the wholesale price of gas, has been a key driver of the recent increases in inflation.
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Markets
The auctions market remains buoyant despite crises
Rising inflation and interest rates could help rather than hinder sales at auctions.
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News
Industry calls for sustainable buildings taskforce
Leading firms from across the built environment have banded together to urge housing secretary Simon Clarke to set up a cross-industry sustainable buildings taskforce.
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News
Grundfos calls for government to address holes in energy strategy
Advanced pump solutions and water technologies firm Grundfos has urged the government to overhaul the UK’s utilities infrastructure with energy-efficient improvements to tackle the energy crisis.
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News
Retail sector struggling to hit the energy efficiency deadline
Experts predict major landlords will succeed in meeting the April deadline but smaller private investors may not.
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Professional
Energy costs and rental markets
Residential rents, currently at record-high levels, are predicted to increase.
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Online
DeVere pulls all UK property investment amid economic turmoil
One of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations is to pull all UK property investment projects amid heightening economic upheaval, it has announced.
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Insight
Uncertainty brings opportunity
As we move from a climate crisis in July and an energy crisis in August to an exchange rate crisis in September, there is little wonder that many commentators are predicting catastrophe over the next 12 months. But as we know from the past nine months, a lot can change ...
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Insight
What a week it has been
During the economic crisis of 1964, prime minister Harold Wilson memorably remarked that a week is a long time in politics. In the economic crisis of 2022, we could perhaps update the saying – a weekend is plenty long enough to machine-gun yourself in the foot.
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News
EPC target may make 185m sq ft of retail unlettable
A total of 185m sq ft of UK retail space is at risk of becoming unlettable by next year if Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards are not met, according to a report from real estate adviser Savills.
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News
Share prices of property firms tumble amid mini-Budget turmoil
The share prices of major property firms have plummeted this week as investors reacted to the government’s controversial tax cuts, a run on the pound and a growing expectation of interest rate hikes through the autumn.
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News
Savills and CBRE appointed to sell 32 Wetherspoon pubs
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has announced the appointment of Savills and CBRE to sell 32 of its pubs across England.
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Insight
Energy crisis: we need to get creative
I wholeheartedly agree with the argument put forward by Adam Branson in his article ‘Energy crisis puts pressure on both occupiers and landlords’. Despite the government recently announcing a six-month cap on energy prices, the real estate industry will need to take a creative, technology-enabled approach to alleviate damage.
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News
Mini-budget: Industry reacts to planning reform, tax cuts and investment zones
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has said the government will introduce a planning and infrastructure bill to reform and “unpick the complex patchwork of planning restrictions and EU-derived laws that constrain our growth”, in a budget described by JLL UK chief executive Stephanie Hyde as “anything but mini” for real estate.
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Insight
Time to plug into gigafactories
By 2040, experts forecast the UK will require a total of 21m sq ft of battery manufacturing gigafactories – gigantic plants capable of producing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, primarily for electric vehicles (EVs).
