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OnlinePropertyshe Perspectives: US Presidential inauguration, Climate change and air quality, London retail news, transformation of Strand/Aldwych, why London can’t rest on its laurels
This week’s American presidential inauguration with 22 year old Amanda Gorman reciting her poem ‘The Hill We Climb’, calling for ‘unity’ and ‘togetherness’ and Lady Gaga singing the national anthem has marked an exciting, emotional and welcome new chapter for the US.
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What role do department stores have in repositioning our high streets for the future?
The collapse of BHS gave the market a stark warning of what could happen to the brand that time forgot. Four years later a quarter of the stores remain vacant and with a tranche of department stores likely to follow, is repurposing the answer?
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‘Manchester is prime for investment’
According to predictions made in CBRE’s 2021 UK Real Estate Market Outlook, the office market is set to pick back up, with a focus on redesign, premium collaboration spaces and Grade A space proving more popular than ever and we can report that UK office yields will remain stable despite ...
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Professional
Ecommerce will reshape homes
One outcome of the Covid pandemic is likely to be a permanent increase in office-based workers working from home. A knock-on effect of homeworking and lockdown has been the continued rise of ecommerce. And while the growth of online shopping pre-dates the pandemic, the trend towards buying online has been ...
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High streets need a non-retail fix
As we start to envisage the end of the Covid crisis, our high streets and surrounding neighbourhoods will play a huge role in how we look closer to home for all those services or occupations we were previously travelling for.
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Why social capital is now key
In the aftermath of 9/11, intense and ultimately misguided speculation surrounded the future of high-rise developments. Similarly, many are today heralding the end of traditional office occupation as we know it following the pandemic.
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Even the Black Death had its silver lining
The lights are once more going out all over Europe. But the darkest hours in pandemics have often heralded glorious dawns. The horrors of the Great War and even deadlier flu gave way to the Roaring Twenties; the vast social changes wrought by the Black Death ignited the Renaissance.
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Insight
The West End will bounce back
The past 12 months have been unimaginably difficult for the retail and hospitality sectors, including all of our businesses across the West End.
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Hotels have to adapt to survive
Hotels are experiencing pressures like never before and while the vaccination rollout gives cause for hope, cases remain high and we are still in a strict lockdown – some distance from a total fix.
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Forecast for 2021: New year’s resolutions (part two)
As part of Property Week’s annual preview feature we asked some of the industry’s leading lights to list their personal and/or professional resolutions for the new year. This is what they said…
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Propertyshe Perspectives: Legal drama with Hiscox Action Group, virtual panels and podcasts, the transformation of Paris, Debenhams Oxford Street closure, London as Europe’s leading tech hub
It’s been another week of drama, although this time of a legal nature.
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Professional
Occupiers can save energy costs
With government guidance continuing to require everyone who can work effectively from home to do so, some office buildings are consuming energy at a rate similar to weekend levels.
