All Insight articles – Page 10
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InsightDesigns for a sustainable life
As a prequel to COP26, and to coincide with the current architectural biennale, the US-based Design Intelligence group hosted a two-city event in Rome, then Venice discussing sustainability and its implications for architecture and architects.
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A property COP-out?
Despite the built environment accounting for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint, talk about property at COP26 was strangely muted. Property Week’s Mitchel Labiak went to Glasgow to find out why.
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ESG: views from the coal face
In September, CBRE’s research team surveyed over 200 UK clients to establish the ‘state of play’ on the full range of social and environmental sustainability issues the real estate industry is being asked to tackle, including climate change, biodiversity, pollution, waste, health and wellbeing and responsible business.
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Why confidence is key in the City
The old saying ‘confidence is key’ has never been more relevant as we continue to see a return of the buzz, vibrancy and entrepreneurial spark that has come to characterise the Square Mile.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Jen Lemen, chartered surveyor and co-founder of Property Elite and Projekt
Jen Lemen, chartered surveyor and co-founder of Property Elite and Projekt, on how she got started in property, her cultural tips, the superpower she wishes she had and her number-one travel destination.
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View from the top: Hugh Seaborn, Cadogan Estates’ chief executive
Cadogan Estates’ chief executive speaks to Property Week about helping tenants bounce back from Covid and the challenge of realising its net-zero-by-2030 vision across the many historic buildings in its portfolio.
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Former England footballer Luther Blissett on why social housing is vital to the future of UK communities
In response to the growing need for quality, affordable housing, Watford Community Housing and Watford Borough Council are delivering a £15.2m programme of 56 new homes for social rent, helping to address the shortage of affordable housing in Watford and improve social inclusion.
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Green business rates and climate change adaptation
The business rates announcements made in the Autumn Spending Review did not go far enough for many. Rather than abolishing the system entirely, the chancellor instead opted to make it “fairer, more responsive and more supportive of investment” by introducing a number of additional reliefs.
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The practical implementation of modular construction
Homes England’s recent allocation of funds under the Affordable Housing Programme will be music to the ears of many registered providers (RPs).
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Upcoming deadlines for new Heat Network Regulations are unrealistic
With not one but two deadlines looming for the Heat Network Regulations, time is running out for landlords to make their buildings compliant.
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Optimism in the air at COP26
Six years since COP24 in Paris and only a little longer since Greta Thunberg came to world attention, the great city of Glasgow will become synonymous with the fight against climate change (we don’t mention COP25).
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Michael Gove’s housing policy shift is long overdue
Editor: Michael Gove’s plans to shift the focus of housing policy away from the South East to the north of England are welcome.
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Let’s rethink how stations function
Editor: Clare Flitton of Landsec recently discussed a “pandemic-driven office revolution”. This isn’t the only asset class that could benefit from fresh thinking.
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How the role of asset managers has evolved
Property Week and Yardi brought together a panel of experts to discuss the changing role of asset management, the specific challenges the sector faces, how Covid has affected occupier expectations and how data and technology can be used to help overcome problems in the future.
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The Leasehold Reform Bill does little to satisfy the concerns of existing leaseholders
While there may be good intentions behind the government’s Leasehold Reform Bill currently before the House of Commons, as it currently stands the bill will do little to address one of the main issues at the heart of the property industry – spiralling ground rents.
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We must make sensible changes
The media have been gorging themselves on COP26 all this week despite the obvious, which is that as ever with conferences of this kind, there will be lots of hot air and promises and very little action will follow.
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Offices: time to lean in to change
To return or not to return? When to return and how? These are the questions being asked in homes and boardrooms alike.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Stephanie Bonduelle, managing director of Tétris
Stephanie Bonduelle, managing director of Tétris, on how she got started in the property industry, her favourite film and book, the superpower she wishes she had and the historical figure she’d like to have met.
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Climate is REITs’ biggest challenge
George Bernard Shaw said “beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”, and the real estate industry is having to gen up on climate change fast.
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Better retirement communities will reduce the social care burden
The government’s lack of focus on social care is perplexing. But whatever the policy development process, it is clear our country’s approach to social care will never be the same again.
