All Expert comment articles – Page 4
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InsightIs resi ready for a data revolution?
The ebb and flow of urban dynamics is changing how we live, work and play in the built environment. Smart home technology and digital systems are layering new functionality into residential spaces, with pandemic-driven need accelerating our acceptance of digitalisation.
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Skills crisis looms in construction
With much talk about the challenges in securing construction materials, some may overlook the risk to labour costs looming around the corner. This comes as the pressure to design and create the next generation of high-quality, safe, London Plan-compliant zero carbon buildings mounts.
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Single family is the next BTR frontier
Single-family housing is one of the fastest-growing asset classes in the UK and forms a key part of the continued evolution of the living sectors.
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We must all take ESG seriously
With great neighbourhoods comes great responsibility. Moda Living is determined to change the way that people live. To do this, we need to step up and take charge of the way that the rental market treats its residents and the shift towards a healthier, more sustainable way of living.
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Facing the ‘age of responsibility’
The strapline for this year’s RESI conference is ‘The Age of Responsibility’. It’s quite rightly weighty and sobering. One imagines those attending in person will consciously choose the family electric runabout to park at Celtic Manor and that Merlins Bar will be uncharacteristically quiet after about 11pm on 8 September.
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Brexit could provide the push the property industry needs to sharpen up customer experience
Headlines about staff shortages in UK hospitality should be a wake-up call for certain corners of the property industry and the way we approach customer experience (CX).
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Flexible lease options in the future world of work
The strong desire by the UK workforce to spend at least part of the working week at home is set to force changes on commercial landlords and tenants alike.
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Freeports are a huge opportunity for mid-sized UK cities
With trade set to be more important than ever to the UK economy in a post-Brexit world, mid-sized cities across the land can play a vital part in the country’s wider commercial future.
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How to navigate escalating ground rents
The issue of ground rents payable on leasehold properties has become a growing concern as many rents continue to increase, with some even doubling every 10 years, a rate that is higher than inflation.
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Why a sustainable Olympic Games must re-conceptualise the built environment
The Tokyo Olympic Games opened on 23 July, with the guiding principle for the event to “be better, together – for the planet and the people”.
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Propertyshe Perspectives: Human skills key to hybrid working, balancing needs of clients and workforce, the art of dealmaking, Shaftesbury’s Least proptech landmark, Mishcon achieves B Corp status
With the gradual return to the office, we will find out soon enough how well our businesses can adapt to hybrid working.
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Whose rules are you playing by?
As pressure for the corporate world to contribute to social and environmental goals increases, the measurement of that contribution has become more pressing to ensure that everyone is ‘doing their bit’ and ‘playing by the same rules’. As a result, sustainability reporting standards, conventions and benchmarks are a growth area. ...
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The superheroes of real estate
More charities than ever across the UK have been benefiting from the industry’s superpowers, but there’s more to be done.
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Net zero: there’s no time to dither
Everyone agrees that living more sustainably is a necessity if the UK economy is to successfully transition to net zero by 2050 – and there is no time for dither or delay.
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Q&A: LandAid chief executive Paul Morrish on pro bono opportunities
LandAid chief exec Paul Morrish discusses pro bono opportunities in this week’s Q A.
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Builders left bitter by share slide
“We announced fantastic results, our order book went up strongly, we increased the land bank and our net cash position soared. And guess what? Our shares went down.”
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We mustn’t cast graduates aside
When I started work in this great property business in the 1960s, I had the best possible start to my career. I joined Moss Partners, one of the most active firms in London’s West End at the time, owned by Lewis and Derrick Moss. It specialised in the ...
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The fate of statues under the new National Planning Policy Framework
On 20 July, MHCLG published its latest revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
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New Use Class E to Residential: A gamechanger or damp squib?
As part of Project Speed, the government’s post-pandemic recovery agenda, a new Commercial, Business and Service classification, Use Class E was introduced to reduce red tape and planning bureaucracy for minor and incidental change of use planning applications.
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Offices will not suffer like retail
It only took ecommerce penetration to reach 15% in the UK to ultimately reduce the value of retail real estate by more than one third between 2018 and 2020.
