All Insight articles – Page 11
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Heart of London’s Ros Morgan on the BID revolution
Over the last decade, business improvement districts (BIDs) have emerged as influential catalysts of community-driven initiatives, promoting local businesses’ capacity to elevate and improve their surroundings.
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Preim’s Oliver Taylor on why transparency is needed to shed the ‘fleecehold’ stigma
‘Fleecehold’ seems to be a catch-all phrase that is associated with almost any circumstance in which charges are paid by owners of freehold properties in addition to their mortgage and council tax.
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Apprentice Jessica Walker’s take on why surveying is an interesting career
Jessica Walker is currently an apprentice in Watts’ building surveying team while she completes her building surveying degree at the University of Salford. This is an essay she submitted for her RICS coursework explaining her thoughts on why real estate is a great place to work. Jessica Walker is currently ...
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The open-ended fund model is outdated
Editor: Your recent front-page story asked: “Is it the end of the road for open-ended funds?” If that is the case, it has been a slow demise.
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Trump’s holdings don’t hold up
Former US president Donald Trump is on trial or facing trial in half a dozen criminal and civil cases. The most serious one involves his role in alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
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Storm clouds are gathering over the office market
The sector faces challenges and a correction lies ahead – so buyers and occupiers have much to consider.
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Building needs a zap, stat
Most of us would welcome a drop in the headline rate of inflation, but we must be careful what we wish for. Deflation – or falling prices – is not healthy either, resembling instead the slowing beeps of a monitor as the patient slips away.
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What do we need from a Leasehold Reform Bill?
Editor: At this stage in the electoral cycle, we need a Leasehold Reform Bill that is sufficiently comprehensive that it benefits leaseholders, while being sufficiently realistic that it can be passed before the next election.
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Keep calm and carry on: Big interview with SEGRO’s David Sleath
Macroeconomic factors may have buffeted industrial giant SEGRO – and the rest of the industry – over the past year, but chief executive David Sleath foresees better times ahead, as Lem Bingley reports.
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Cities need to balance carrot and stick policies to build better, ULI’s chief exec tells PropCast
In the latest episode of BossCast, Lisette van Doorn, chief executive of the Urban Land Institute in Europe – the oldest and largest network of real estate and land use experts in the world – speaks to Montfort’s Andrew Teacher about how real estate has become increasingly globalised.
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RIB’s Antony Antoniou on investment repercussions as WeWork files for bankruptcy in US
WeWork’s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US has prompted concerns about what could happen to investment in the UK’s flexible office sector, should it also go into administration here.
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GRS’s Hongming Chen on the robots bringing manufacturing and logistics back home
In today’s fractured geopolitical landscape, how countries manufacture and transport goods is a key topic for the property industry.
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Steven & Bolton’s Sarah Cardew on whether freeport ships will be allowed safe harbour
With political uncertainty ahead in the run-up to the next general election, will the politics surrounding freeports be put aside in favour of waiting out the initial tax incentive time limits, to really understand the return on the Exchequer’s investment in these special tax sites?
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Thrive Homes’ Elspeth Mackenzie on the power of affordable housing
Affordable housing transcends the confines of mere shelter; it is the cornerstone of a nation’s economic prosperity. Addressing this fundamental human need isn’t just a social obligation; it’s an economic imperative that sparks growth, creates jobs and nurtures communities.
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Cobalt Recruitment’s Megan Bond on diversity in the real estate sector
While the industry is aware that both the perceptions and reality of diversity in Real Estate need to change to ensure the very best available talent can get in and get on, there are still barriers to progress in this area.
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IES’s David Ross on why post-occupancy evaluation is the secret weapon in the building performance battle
If there was an established and accepted method of making commercial buildings operate more efficiently to drive out waste, drive up value and reduce emissions, everyone would want to know about it, right?
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Decisions, decisions: from the Covid inquiry to levelling-up
The current public inquiry into the handling of the Covid crisis has so far painted a deeply unflattering picture of the way central government arrives at decisions. Among an extraordinary amount of mud-slinging from former advisers, a couple of things stand out.
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Building cities for the future
WATCH: Following the launch of Landsec’s Shaping Successful Future Cities report earlier this year, Mike Hood, CEO of Landsec’s regeneration business and Jennie Colville, Head of ESG and Sustainability, sit down with Property Week to discuss the findings – and where we go from here.
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Housing crisis: blame game unhelpful
Editor: There is a certain pantomime played out by politicians and the media when discussing housing policy, illustrated perfectly in the recent BBC programme Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong?
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What can BFS developers learn from BTR model?
Editor: There are inherent differences between build-for-sale (BFS) and build-to-rent (BTR) developments.