Property event news
View from the top: Alastair Moss, chair of the City of London Corporation’s planning and transportation committee
Ahead of WorkSpace Conference + Showcase, the City of London Corporation planning and transportation committee chair talks to Property Week about the Square Mile’s prospects as office workers return.
More top speakers join the line-up for Property Week’s hybrid WorkSpace Conference
The return to the office, inclusive workspaces and sustainability are among the hot topics set to be debated at Property Week’s WorkSpace Conference + Showcase on 1 October.
Heavyweight speaker line-up announced for WorkSpace Conference
Former Twitter European VP big-ticket addition to raft of top industry speakers.
The key takeaways from this year’s hybrid RESI convention
After a year of seismic societal change, the discussion centred on sustainability, social impact and Covid-19.
‘Boosting housing demand won’t be enough,’ says Jenrick
Former housing secretary also addresses key issues of economic recovery, affordable housing and leasehold reform.
NSPCC picks RESI event to launch property sector fundraising board
The NSPCC has launched a new property fundraising board.
Seamless tech connects tenants
It was great to be back meeting colleagues from across the sector and sharing experiences of the past 18 months at last week’s RESI Convention, but also more importantly to look ahead.
RESI Convention ushered in a hybrid future
I really must get out more. That realisation dawned on me and possibly everyone else at last week’s RESI Convention, held on terra firma at Celtic Manor on 8 to 9 September rather than via the cloud.
Robert Jenrick keynote speech at RESI Convention 2021: full transcript
Former secretary of state for housing Robert Jenrick spoke at the 2021 RESI Convention last week. As well as discussing the government’s housebuilding target, the minister talked about economic recovery and progress around introducing commonhold to replace leasehold.
Jenrick rules out scrapping annual 300,000 home target
Speaking at this year’s RESI Convention in Wales, secretary of state for housing Robert Jenrick said the government had no plans to scrap its ambition to build 300,000 homes a year and that the target was “sensible” but “extremely ambitious”.
Q&A: Kitty Ussher on the resilience of resi
The Demos chief economic adviser outlines sector’s opportunities and challenges.
A RESI you can’t afford to miss
The government’s announcement this week of a new £8.6bn funding package to make home ownership a more “realistic and affordable” aspiration for tens of thousands of families is a welcome one. But the devil will be as much in the delivery as the detail.
Housing secretary Jenrick joins RESI line-up as keynote speaker
Secretary of state for housing Robert Jenrick has been lined up to deliver the political keynote speech at this year’s hybrid RESI Convention, which takes place at Celtic Manor in Wales on 8-9 September.
Living in a material whirl
Spiralling material prices threaten to slow the delivery of much-needed new homes, but modern methods of construction may offer a solution by making output more efficient and cutting costs.
Expert Comments
Facing the ‘age of responsibility’
The strapline for this year’s RESI conference is ‘The Age of Responsibility’. It’s quite rightly weighty and sobering. One imagines those attending in person will consciously choose the family electric runabout to park at Celtic Manor and that Merlins Bar will be uncharacteristically quiet after about 11pm on 8 September.
