All Expert comment articles – Page 22
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InsightNext steps for first-time buyers
The Help to Buy: Equity Loan has helped more than 350,000 people get on the property ladder since 2013, but after being limited to first-time buyers last year, the scheme is finally coming to an end in March 2023, with intake of new applicants ending last month.
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InsightWill Rishi bring Christmas cheer?
As we head towards the Christmas retail season, the economic headwinds do not look great: inflation in double digits, output falling to the point of recession, the highest tax burden since the war, political instability domestically and conflict in Europe.
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InsightPast lessons on uncertain times
Since the start of September, the UK has gone through a series of rather unsettling events.
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InsightInvestment Zones: a few hurdles
Investment Zones are one of the measures set out in the government’s growth strategy. Although a laudable objective, there is a lack of detail on how they will work to accelerate the delivery of jobs and homes.
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InsightREITs look ripe for consolidation
It was mini-Budget remorse last week when chancellor Jeremy Hunt pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del on Trussonomics, and 10-year gilts fell back to 4%, from a recent 4.5% peak.
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InsightTruss turmoil has set reform back
“The country has gone to the dogs; it’s unbelievable really. What a mess.” That was a comment sent to me by one of the finest industrialists I know in the UK, after Shore Capital Markets sent out our prognosis for the consumer economy following the Truss-Kwarteng show, to be followed ...
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InsightAffordable homes key to growth
If the government wants economic growth, then there is a huge contribution that our industry can make to this agenda by building more social housing. The country’s chronic shortage of affordable housing is hardly a secret. Quite simply, not enough people have the security of a decent home.
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InsightWill 2023 offer relief for us all?
Earlier this year, an industry survey reported that only 48% of the specialist lending market thought their cost of origination was likely to increase over the year.
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InsightHunt takes charge as Truss lingers
They say a week’s a long time in politics and boy, this has been one of those weeks.
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InsightQuantifying social impact is vital
Counting the number of affordable homes we build has been the sole yardstick for the social housing sector for too long.
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InsightThe perfect storm for hospitality
‘It’s never going to get worse than this’ was a phrase many in hospitality muttered following the unprecedented economic turmoil that the Covid-19 pandemic brought to the sector.
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InsightHow to solve threshold anxiety
A few weeks back, our team at King’s Cross celebrated National Inclusion Week. Now in its 10th year, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to reflect on the property industry’s progress, while recognising the challenges (and opportunities) that remain, especially for the office market.
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InsightWe should all be in this together
Following a period of fresh political headwinds, and resulting new layers of uncertainty spurring market turbulence, the phrase ‘we are all in this together’ has never felt more real to many across the property sector as it does today.
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InsightHow do you solve a problem like lettings industry changes?
Fewer properties, more tenants, more self-managing landlords and a looming increase in regulations.
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InsightIntersectionality is key to success
Intersectionality is an approach to diversity that acknowledges how someone’s race, gender, class, age and other characteristics interconnect to form a personal experience – of life and work – bringing both disadvantages and privileges.
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InsightSmart homes are nothing new
“Discover Britain’s original smart home.” So goes the sell for Victorian mansion Cragside, originally home to the renowned engineer William Armstrong.
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InsightTech can help residents go green
Combine a climate crisis with a cost-of-living crisis and you have a never-before-seen imperative for householders to reduce energy wastage – and a once-in-a-generation opportunity for building managers to make real inroads on ESG performance.
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InsightTime to keep calm and carry on
“When you’re feeling in the dumps/Don’t be silly chumps/Just purse your lips and whistle, that’s the thing, and…/Always Look on the bright side of life.”
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InsightChanging our cities for the better
Listen out: the 15-minute city is coming to a neighbourhood near you. We’ve all heard the term flying around, but what are the benefits and how does it look in practice?
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NewsLook to the past to ride out uncertain times
Since the beginning of September, the UK has gone through a series of rather unsettling events, touching various aspects of our private and professional lives.
