All Expert comment articles – Page 15
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InsightDo not ignore the retail phoenix
Over the past year, real estate investors have been piling into the life sciences and logistics sectors en masse.
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Hospitality will feed the UK's recovery
With the end of restrictions on the horizon, so-called ‘Freedom Day’ is now achingly close for the hospitality sector.
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From cold war to homes front
Urban Civic intends to double in size over the next five years. In January, the master-developer, founded by Nigel Hugill and Robin Butler in 2009, was bought for £506m by the Wellcome Trust. Peter Pereira Gray runs the trust’s £32bn portfolio, which gained 12.9% in value last year. ...
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How to avoid RP Armageddon
The prospect of a sudden end to the eviction moratorium was recently described in these pages as “a potential Armageddon” for commercial tenants.
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Plugging in to EVCs? Focus on the user experience
The UK needs five times as many electric vehicle charging (EVC) points as it currently has in order to meet government bans on petrol and diesel vehicles, according to the Policy Exchange think tank.
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Propertyshe Perspectives: Pocket solution to the housing crisis, Common co-living comes to the UK, Sook retail by the hour, the rights of crustaceans, Cult of We trailer
We talk a lot about how to solve the housing crisis but seem to make little progress. It is therefore good to see property industry veteran, Marc Vlessing, CEO of innovative developer Pocket Living, come up with some practical suggestions.
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People have stuck with London
It has been well over a year since the prime minister announced the first lockdown in March 2020 and we are edging ever closer to the total end of restrictions later this month.
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Wall of money needs a home
“There’s a wall of money looking for a home,” a financier told me after one in a flurry of recent private equity-funded acquisitions. Where better a home for these billions than in, well, homes?
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Smart tech key to office future
As a business, WiredScore runs with culture at its core. We’re incredibly proud of the values-driven attitude we’ve carried with us from the start and firmly believe that although we’re in the business of technology, it’s the people that make us tick.
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Why nearshoring is so beneficial
When giant automotive supplier Robert Bosch opened a €1bn chip plant in Germany close to the Sirius Business Park in Dresden last month, it was hailed as a triumph for nearshoring – the opposite of the trend towards globalisation that has driven world economies in the 21 st century. ...
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Art brings joy to our public spaces
Writing this on one of the longest (and hottest) days of the year, I can finally say that summer is upon us.
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Things to be wary of when trading places
It is amazing how quickly half-truths can turn into seeming full truths. Commercial landlords will certainly already be tired of the column inches committed to condemning Covid-19 for choking the life out of traditional retail models.
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Reaping freeport rewards
Plans to create eight new freeports in England should benefit businesses that choose to locate themselves in these areas as well as generate jobs, but will they generate much-needed investment?
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Building a ‘house of brands’
Another retailer enters administration. Jobs to be lost.” It’s a familiar headline, but while it is easy to blame the pandemic, there were plenty of failures pre-Covid, with changing customer habits, online, digital integration and poor proposition and management some of the factors to blame.
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Our villages need reimagining
Ever since the pandemic began, the prospect of a post-pandemic urban exodus has highlighted a fundamental issue: English villages are among the most unsustainable, unaffordable, undiverse and inadequate settlements of the modern era.
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We must prove that we matter
A few weeks ago, courtesy of Real Estate Balance and Savills, I had the pleasure of chairing a seminar about social mobility in the real estate sector.
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We need green-belt housing too
Guess which London borough we are talking about. “The largest number of units delivered in any one year (357) equates to 25% of the annual average needed.
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Post-Covid reality hits the West End
S Franses’ lease at 80 Jermyn Street SW1 expired in March 2016. After a bitter battle to obtain changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, the Supreme Court finally held in December 2018 that landlord The Cavendish Hotel could not oppose the grant of a new tenancy to S ...
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Take action now for March 2022
The hospitality industry is raring to go – summer is here, Brits’ Covid-19 savings are burning a hole in their pocket and they want to make up for lost time. But the UK government seems to have other plans and has extended the restrictions on social contact for another four ...
