All articles by Gwyn Roberts – Page 5
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MarketsThere’s no place like home
With more mixed-use schemes being built, the biggest challenge is meeting the needs of occupiers. Ten years after the opening of Brindleyplace, Gwyn Roberts speaks to people that live and work there.
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MarketsWhat goes around comes around
Urban Splash is to convert Birmingham’s iconic Rotunda building into a mixed-use development.
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MarketsUnited front
Private developers are rushing into the student housing market. Unite is leading the charge.
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Crest Nicholson to close London residential office
Housebuilder to bolster resi expertise in mixed-use wing with 30 staff
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RICS widens resi appeal with Tech qualification focus
Institution hopes to attract residential leaders through ‘expert’ route to membership
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MarketsAgents home in
The big commercial property services companies are moving into unknown territory: the residential agency market.
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MarketsLiving large
In a marketplace where size offers the best chance of securing funding, housing associations are merging by the dozen.
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CABE to open design review panel to public scrutiny
Architecture commission responds to ODPM criticism about secretive nature of review process
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MarketsDesigned for life
With housing design unchanged since the 1930s, can a new wave of experimental properties drag housebuilders into the 21st century?
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Queen’s Speech proposes bill to regulate home reversions
Government plans FSA supervision of growing reversions market and housing benefit reforms
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Online
ODPM identifies 800 sites for affordable homes
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Treasury have earmarked 800 new sites for affordable homes across the country, primarily on former Ministry of Defence, NHS and railway land.
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News
Slough plans residential element at Winnersh Triangle
Berkshire business park is latest to join south-east residential bandwagon
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MarketsOut of danger
The redevelopment of a once crime-ridden square behind Oxford Street has breathed new life into a much-maligned area of London.
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MarketsEnglish Partnerships to stay away from MoD disposals
Chief executive Higgins says agency will concentrate on core advisory role.
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MarketsThe art of the possible
Good masterplans ensure a coherent structure to town planning, but they need to stay within the realms of possibility.
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Three more towers to rise above London’s East End
Housing association’s 26-storey scheme will provide 346 homes in east London regeneration area
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Council of Mortgage Lenders adopts historic commonholds
New form of residential property ownership will protect investors from leasehold depreciation
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MarketsYour home may be at risk
Equity-release schemes are becoming increasingly popular among Britain’s ageing homeowners. But is this a long-term solution to the problems of missold mortgages and pensions?
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Housebuilders’ election plea: deliver on Barker Report
House Builders Federation calls on new government to address issue of housing supply
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MoD narrows field for London estate revamp
Capita Symonds and Skanska edged out of £200m MoDEL public-private partnership
