All Expert comment articles – Page 25
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InsightPrivate equity makes a supermarket sweep
Buses – wait for ages then three come along at once. Such is the case with the interest shown by CD R, Apollo and Fortress in Morrisons, an equity that has been sidelined in price terms for a sustained period.
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Tough times for British Land and Landsec
We read REITs’ reports and accounts from back to front for those interesting notes tucked away. This year, both Landsec’s and British Land’s reports include new data on portfolio energy performance.
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The time is right for ‘brandlords’
The flexible workspace market is still growing apace, but it’s not just flexspace and co-working operators that are fuelling supply. Landlords and commercial property investment groups are also investing in flexspace brands, side-stepping partnerships with existing operators to take a DIY approach.
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Business leaders must act fast to ease office-return fears
The announcement by the prime minister that work-from-home guidance would be lifted on 19 July was met with a sense of optimism by business leaders and property owners, who since March 2020 have faced uncertainty around workforce operations and tenancies.
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The property sector is more nuanced than ever
For decades, the Baby Boomer generation has been able to navigate its way using the property stars, but the trusted constellations seem unusually displaced right now.
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It’s time to tackle fit-out carbon
In boardrooms across the country, real or virtual, the word ‘sustainability’ is bouncing around like a pinball, interspersed with other words like ‘commitment’, ‘zero’ and ‘Paris’.
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Boris failed to show leadership
I know nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, but in my time in parliament I served two prime ministers who I looked up to.
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Staycations will boost the West End
Six months ago, I reported on what a difficult year it had been for retail and hospitality, particularly in city centres.
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What we can expect from COP26
COP26 – the global climate summit being held in November this year – will be a defining moment for humanity.
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Complying with vacant possession conditions
The Court of Appeal recently grappled with the issue of vacant possession when terminating a commercial lease in Capitol Park Leeds Plc v Global Radio Services [2021] EWCA Civ 995.
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How to ride the wave of investment into life sciences
A source of global hope during the pandemic has been the life sciences sector, which has moved with incredible speed to produce vaccines. The sector’s ways of working and its real estate requirements are changing just as swiftly, with a number of existing trends in life sciences now being accelerated ...
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Japanese knotweed: identification and treatment can help solve a knotty problem for the housing market
The presence of Japanese knotweed can a deal-breaker but is the bad press out of proportion?
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Overcoming the legal and regulatory challenges of proptech
The real estate industry is experiencing a widespread digital transformation and is seeing the tangible benefits of adopting technology. New innovations are appearing all the time and there is no doubt that proptech is at the heart of this digital revolution.
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Let’s be in teams, not on Teams
There have been many stop-starts, but 15 months on from the first lockdown, the office – a collaborative space for experts to strategise, create and innovate – has finally been placed on the ‘green list‘. From 19 July, technology will help guide us back to a new and upgraded working ...
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Do 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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