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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightPredictions for 2022: Brace yourself…
Industry leaders predict another rollercoaster year for real estate in our 2022 forecast.
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InsightHow can we most effectively heat our buildings?
With energy costs likely to be a running issue throughout 2022, the question of how we can most effectively heat our buildings is entering mainstream public debate. To meet our national legal commitments on net zero carbon emissions, we must stop using gas to provide space and water heating in ...
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InsightThe year of ESG, RPI and WFH
ESG, RPI and WFH may in each case just be three little letters, but they are hugely significant concepts that had not been at the forefront of our minds for the past few decades. They are now.
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InsightWe must nurture emerging talent
The petrol crisis last autumn, restaurants’ reducing opening hours and delays to Christmas gift deliveries all highlight the UK’s serious shortage of skilled workers.
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InsightBoris Johnson may yet survive
And so we bid a none-too-fond farewell to a year of frustration and disappointment for millions across the country.
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InsightFooting the bill for hybrid working
The past two years have taught us a lesson in productivity: it’s possible (and acceptable) to conduct the nine-to-five from home, in a café, on a train, by the beach… We’ve grown accustomed to working anywhere and everywhere.
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InsightPeople are GPA’s greatest asset
For more than a decade, the property industry has been evolving from simply being recognised as places to do work into spaces that facilitate and nurture productivity, connectivity and wellbeing. And we are now seeing property playing its part in people strategies for many employers.
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OnlineThere’s life yet in the UK’s high street
For many, the death of the British high street has long been a question of when, not if. And with the pandemic causing the proportion of total UK retail sales that take place online to almost double, many thought that Covid-19 would prove to be the final nail in the ...
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OnlineThe office trends that will shape the 2022 real estate market
The commercial real estate landscape has been shaken up over the past 18 months, with challenges presented for both businesses and landlords alike. However, hybrid working is now fully embedded into our everyday working lives and, as a result, people are starting to understand exactly what they want and need ...
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InsightUnderstanding digital tools used by building contractors can benefit the bottom line
We are all aware of the recent surge in digital adoption that is helping to raise building standards.
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InsightCommercial property landlords must tighten up financial management in 2022
With rents still down on pre-pandemic levels in some subsectors of the commercial property market and the cost of mortgage repayments expected to rise next year due to inflationary increases in interest rates, some landlords may need to tighten up their financial management in the year ahead.
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InsightPartnerships drive regen projects
Despite years of austerity, the state and public sector is indebted on a grand scale. The hundreds of billions of pounds the government spent to support public services, households and business during the pandemic has caused the government deficit to reach a peacetime record.
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InsightWarehouse party set to continue
Demand for good warehouse property has never been as high and supply has never been so low. Rental growth has never been stronger and yields have never been lower.
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InsightBTR has a key role to play in levelling up
We welcomed Michael Gove as the new secretary of state dealing with housing and communities, and now levelling up, even if the new department name, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, doesn’t trip off the tongue.
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InsightAiring tricky questions on gender
Last week a male principal at a public sector user of property services publicly admonished an agent for fielding an all-male team when pitching for work.
