All Insight articles
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InsightThe supermarkets’ finest hour
The new decade started with worrying tensions between Iran and the US, which forced crude oil prices to spike to more than $70 a barrel.
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Climate crisis ‘brand’ must change
Jeff Goldblum’s character in the film Jurassic Park delivers a line that is both profound and now a classic internet meme.
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Design is key in later-living sector
My grandmother always told me that “until you’re 80, nothing changes, but after that your knees start to be sore when you get out of bed”.
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Professional
CRS and kindness
Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in the UK, government guidelines have become ever more stringent, with the country now being on effective lockdown with all but essential shops and services being closed and social distancing taking hold.
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The cash preservation society
“Cash is king.” Never has that well-worn business maxim been more imperative than now, as the country locks down in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
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We must give back to get heard
The general public has a poor perception of the property industry (27% favourability, according to a British Property Federation/Populus survey) and the government is not prioritising us.
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Jenrick was right to challenge mayor’s London plan
Editor: Given the difficult situation we are in, secretary of state for housing Robert Jenrick’s intervention to prevent mayor Sadiq Khan from publishing the London Plan until requested changes have been made may have slipped through largely unnoticed.
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Housing: it’s time to reassess density
Editor: While the concept of social distancing has stalled the majority of the country’s housebuilding projects , it has also raised the question of whether today’s new homes and developments can handle future pandemics.
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Online
Ambitious but incompatible? A response to the government’s ‘Planning for the Future’ paper
The Budget feels a very long time ago.
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Online
Propertyshe perspectives: our new reality, climate change and the Mipim editor’s dinner
It has been an extremely steep learning curve for all of us. And it has been particularly impressive how office workers, who have been accustomed to a daily commute to an office, have been able to migrate relatively seamlessly to working from home.
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Online
Landlords left in the dark by government
Through the business rates system, the government is providing a great deal of financial support to businesses affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Adapting in challenging times – how property managers should adjust to the disruption caused by Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak has caused extreme disruption across the world.
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We must retain heritage buildings
Browsing through a junk shop one weekend, I found an old shield with a motto emblazoned across the bottom, Respiciens Prospiciens : ’Looking backwards, looking forwards’.
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News
Interview with the duo behind Plus X
Having established proof of concept, the duo behind incubator hub Plus X plan to roll it out across other U+I sites and beyond.
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Is property immune to Covid-19?
Just as we were moving away from the turmoil of Brexit, we find ourselves facing a new hurdle: Covid-19. I say hurdle and not wall because real estate is a resilient industry and it will overcome this.
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Online
Occupier decision-making in a pandemic
Only two weeks ago, I met with the chief executive of a large London occupier who was looking for new office space in London. He was disappointed by the limited choice of options, surprised by the long lead-in to secure a pre-let and outraged by the increasing rents.
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Many factors affect wellbeing of office employees
Editor: In his article, Simon Creasey correctly noted the importance of air quality in offices to the wellbeing of staff .
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Time to show grace under pressure
“Mummy? Daddy? What did you do during the time of coronavirus?”
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We are all reshaping how we live
If 2019 was the year of uncertainty, 2020 is the year that started upbeat but by the end of the first quarter we were reeling from something we had never heard of.
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Purpose of valuation has been lost
Editor: As a retired chartered valuation surveyor with more than 40 years’ experience, I fear that the current debate about valuation models suggests that the profession has lost sight of the fundamental nature and purpose of valuation .
