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OnlinePropertyshe 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 ...
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Unlocking cash, driving forward or helping your business through the pandemic; is the refinancing route right for you?
For commercial property owners nationwide, the pandemic and its fallout has had many repercussions. For some, it has resulted in the need or desire to raise funds by refinancing and securing loans against existing properties to free up cash, with various reasons for doing so.
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Repurposing the high street
The demise of Debenhams has ripped a crater-sized hole in the heart of the UK’s high streets, bringing back memories of the fall of BHS and Woolworths.
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Propertyshe Perspectives: Emerging from lockdown with the Property Week Editor’s lunch, the importance of networking, La Samaritaine department store reopens, remembering the late Geoffrey Wilson
This week was something of a landmark as I attended my first real estate event, following a drought of some 15 months.
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Covid-19 pandemic highlights the true value of a global network
Professional membership organisations and networks can play many important roles in helping their business affiliates grow, develop and become more successful.
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The Code of Practice is still the best guide for commercial landlords
If the pandemic had lasted one to two quarters, the non-interventionist approach of UK PLC in March 2020 might have worked.
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It’s time for net zero later living
Reduce carbon. Make less waste. Consume less energy. These are now familiar mantras. The focus is on making the world marginally less bad, and in time hopefully a lot less bad.
