All Expert comment articles – Page 11
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Locale’s Rob Maxwell on ensuring you have the right tech to keep your building safe
Feeling safe whether you are in your own home, in your place of work or in a care home or hospital should never be in question.
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Treasury creates false economy
There’s a very splendid brass plate on the door of 10 Downing Street, but it doesn’t say ‘Office of the Prime Minister’.
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Prioritising sustainability
The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed investment into the logistics market following the unexpected spike in demand from ecommerce and third-party logistics occupiers.
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Dig into the data for I&L sector success
The past few years have been tumultuous for the industrial and logistics (I&L) market. Despite 2020 being the worst year for the UK economy in more than three centuries, the I&L market flourished due to a combination of increased reliance on online shopping and demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Tackling the UK’s warehousing shortage
The current warehousing shortage across London and the South East is causing unnecessary delays along the supply chain and holding back much-needed growth across the British economy. While the shortage is causing headaches for businesses of all sizes across Britain, the issue is by no means a new one.
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Jefferies’ Mike Prew on the stubborn market
As the holidays approach, every parent’s car journey nightmare is kids at the end of their tether with choruses of “Are we there yet?” REIT share prices are being defined by stubborn inflation but the UK, it seems, is also nowhere near arriving at the 2% target.
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Real Estate Balance’s Liz Peace on adopting the right mindset for life sciences innovation
The real estate industry seems to display a lemming-like tendency to follow a fad. Once it was shopping centres, then student accommodation, followed by big sheds and logistics. And now it is life sciences.
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SAVE Britain’s Heritage’s Henrietta Billings on why reusing buildings is in everyone’s interests
Housing secretary Michael Gove’s decision on the pivotal M&S Oxford Street case is due any day, eagerly awaited by those on both sides of the argument.
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Property Elite’s Jen Lemen on why diversity is not optional
Having worked with a wide spectrum of property and construction professionals over the past 15 years, I have seen some of the best, and worst, examples of best practice in terms of diversity.
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Campus Living Villages’ Paddy Jackman on why universities play a vital role in the national agenda
As with so much in the wider property world, higher education and subsequently the student accommodation market is very much subject to the vagaries of government policy.
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Key steps on the road to net zero
Real estate is the number-one emitter of greenhouse gases, accounting for 37% of global emissions, according to UN figures. If the world is to achieve globally agreed net zero targets, it is imperative the built environment adapts immediately – a commitment that demands investment of $5trn (£4trn) a year.
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Blend’s David Alcock on why Sunak cannot afford to put housing on the backburner
At a time when Britain is suffering from a severe housing crisis, especially in the most prosperous places in the Greater South East, this government has taken an increasingly anti-housebuilding and anti-business policy environment stance that is threatening to leave thousands of much-needed new homes on the drawing board and ...
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IWG’s Mark Dixon on the rebirth of suburbs, towns and countryside through hybrid working
There is no doubt that we are in the grip of a remarkable and quite unprecedented societal shift that is radically changing the geography of work: a shift that, by enabling people to choose to work the way they want, is overwhelmingly positive.
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Packaged Living’s Edwina Coward on Liverpool’s transformation and the growing demand for BTR
Whether you’re a fan of Eurovision or not, it was difficult to observe the crowds pouring into the Eurovision village in Liverpool and not feel a sense of joy that the contest was being held in the North West.
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Forsters’ Amy France on the challenge faced by the Older People’s Housing Taskforce
As the Older People’s Housing Taskforce finally gets under way, it will attempt to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the UK – how can suitable housing options be provided for later life?
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Searching for hope in silly season
With summer parties in full swing, reasons to be cheerful are currently rather tricky for the world of property, architecture and planning.
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Make later-living homes a priority
As the Older People’s Housing Taskforce finally gets under way, it will attempt to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the UK – how can suitable housing options be provided for later life?
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Apex Group’s Natalie Breen on opportunities for forward-thinking real estate investors
As we reach the end of the second quarter of 2023, market conditions have continued to provide headwinds for real estate investors.
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Mayfair Private Office’s Cameron Smith on why Middle East wealth is looking to prime London property
As we look back on a turbulent first half of the year, with financial instability and a lack of economic growth spreading across borders and industries, some regions have fared much better than others.
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Dolphin Living’s Olivia Harris why it could almost be 1992 all over again
Next year promises to be one of the most politically charged in a generation. That may sound like a bold statement, given events of recent years have included Brexit, Covid-19, hung parliaments, coalitions and numerous prime ministers.