All Expert comment articles – Page 17
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InsightThe Big Apple’s office return
New York City is not quite ready to party. True, the vaccines have routed coronavirus – a seeming miracle after last year’s horrific ‘epicenter’ death toll. Coney Island’s rollercoasters are roaring again.
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Greenwashing is a threat we should all seek to challenge
The world has been thinking and talking about net zero for a long time. The claims have been bold and the pledges plentiful, but it’s hard to tell how much progress has been made, not least because the pledges are working to such long-term horizons.
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Evolve fast if you want to survive
Much hope and optimism has been placed on the opening up of the UK’s retail and hospitality sector as it welcomes customers back, in line with national guidelines.
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Real estate must prove its worth
As we emerge from the latest lockdown, the extent to which real estate as an investment asset class will be permanently changed is unclear.
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It’s time to kickstart a cities revival
As we emerge from the lockdowns and Covid-19 pandemic, our cities eagerly await a new normality and for the streets, pavements, cafés, bars and businesses to again become their vibrant heartbeat.
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Why the planning bill won’t pass
I am clearly not the only commentator who takes the much-trumpeted commitment in the Queen’s Speech to reform of the planning system with a large pinch of salt.
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How lenders survived Covid-19
Being a real estate lender during the pandemic has been a rollercoaster ride, but has been far less bumpy than in the last property downturn after the global financial crisis.
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Technology provides the key to realising real estate’s ESG goals
While terms like ‘innovation’ and ‘technology’ have risen to near-mythical status across much of the business landscape, the property world has been historically slower and more reticent to worship at the silicon altar.
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Propertyshe Perspectives: Equiem to deliver Kings Cross app, the tech future of hybrid meetings, Gorillas changing the way ‘you do groceries’, podcast with Cushman & Wakefield’s George Roberts
The great British commute is now being named by many as a key deterrent to returning to the office.
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Shot in the arm for lending market
Throughout the Covid period, Mutual Finance has been active in arranging finance across all real estate sectors, completing £962m of new business during 2020.
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Interview with SEGRO’s David Sleath
With great power comes great responsibility. SEGRO chief executive David Sleath talks Liz Hamson through the relaunched Responsible SEGRO strategy ahead of Property Week ’s Industrial Logistics Conference
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Tech to drive workspace demand
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been fierce debate about the future of workspaces.
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New tenure to boost later living
Britain’s leasehold system is on course for large-scale reform, a move that few outside the property industry are likely to begrudge given the cladding crisis and ground rent scandal.
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Planning Bill won’t change a thing
To start, a diatribe on the dogma endangering the Planning Bill proposed in the Queen’s Speech last week.
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Time to set the bar on equality
We’ll never achieve gender equality in the property industry – or any industry – if we don’t ditch outdated gender stereotypes.
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Propertyshe Perspectives: The future of hybrid working, Common to bring their co-living concept to the UK, PERE Global Summit tech panel, immersive Monopoly, IPSX finally launches
Boris Johnson has signalled that the current work from home guidance for England is to be lifted next month, if Covid-19 cases continue to drop, raising the prospect of an imminent return to pre-pandemic workplaces.
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Lending has a role to play in sustainability
The UK’s sixth Carbon Budget has enshrined a new target in law to slash emissions by 78% by 2035. This is the world’s most ambitious climate change target and will see emissions return to their 1990s levels.
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Why we must support the end of moratoriums
When the history of Covid-19 comes to be written, how people behaved will be remembered.
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Land scarcity sparks costs surge
Things couldn’t get rosier for the housebuilders, it would seem. Sales volumes and prices are up, irrespective of dwindling government support.
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Net zero needs concrete thinking
The results of the 2021 Property Week /UKGBC Climate Crisis Survey highlight a polarised view of the impact of Covid-19 on the climate emergency. While almost half of respondents felt the pandemic would accelerate our pivot towards decarbonisation, 34.5% felt it would slow it down.
