All Insight articles – Page 20
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InsightGreen-belt narrative has to change
Editor: In PMQs late last month, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed that housebuilding had “collapsed” – a sentiment felt by many in our industry. Indeed, the target of 300,000 new homes a year has not come close to being reached over the last decade.
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InsightA winning start: PW speaks to six former Women in Property National Student Awards finalists
Women in Property’s National Student Awards have helped more than a thousand female graduates on the road to success. Property Week talks to former finalists about the importance of the programme.
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InsightGrainger’s Helen Gordon on the importance of clarity
With housing likely to be a key focus of any election campaign, there have been several positive signs recently that both sides understand that supply is the fundamental issue and a driver of the housing crisis, which is encouraging.
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NewsBCIS’s Joe Martin on what is next for construction
Are there any reasons for the construction industry to be optimistic? The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) recently forecast that gross domestic product would not fall this year and would grow slowly over the next two years, buoyed by growth in world GDP.
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InsightEmployers must stamp out bad habits to attract and retain diverse talent
For many years, real estate recruiting with diversity and inclusion in mind was a tickbox exercise for many organisations.
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InsightAn anti-business UK government
Boris Johnson infamously gave his thoughts on what he thought of business, something that would not generally be appropriate to the decent minds of the British property sector, but let’s just say ‘eff it’. Some Tory ministers sought to smooth over the matter but for many, rightly, it was a ...
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InsightAlign climate goals with health
As record-breaking heatwaves spread across southern Europe, we are confronted with the stark reminder that the effects of climate change are no longer far-flung, but are already upon us.
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OnlineGrosvenor’s UK boss balances heritage and modernity as the historic estate leads London’s green revival
Grosvenor Property UK’s chief executive James Raynor is in the interview seat on BossCast this week, discussing how the historic estate balances innovation and stewardship, the importance of diversity in creating strong teams, and its role in fostering economic growth.
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InsightPoland in pole position
Last month’s CEE summit in Warsaw highlighted the strength of Poland’s real estate market and its key place in a region attracting foreign investment despite war and economic turmoil.
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NewsEPC model is fundamentally flawed
Editor: I write in support of Property Week’s Get Set for Net Zero campaign and to provide some observations based on our experience of the issues raised in your recent leader column about the shortcomings of Energy Performance Certificates – or EPCs.
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NewsGove must clearly lay out Cambridge 2040 plans
Editor: Housing secretary Michael Gove’s Cambridge 2040 plan, the attempt to turn the city into the UK’s version of Silicon Valley, has been met with trepidation. While it makes sense to capitalise on the dominance of Cambridge in the UK life sciences and wider tech sectors, it is vital the ...
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InsightProperty taxes mean it’s not so easy for buildings to be green
Two years ago, in a well-publicised disagreement with Kermit the Frog, then prime minister Boris Johnson told the United Nations General Assembly in New York “it’s easy to go green”.
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InsightMTVH’s Geeta Nanda on lessons to be learnt from Windrush
On the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation’s arrival, their experiences are a cause for celebration while raising serious questions about housing today.
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InsightFinancial disclosure: misleading signs on the road to net zero
It is widely recognised that the real estate industry is a major contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions. If we are to reach net zero by 2050 – as called for in the 2015 Paris Agreement – the industry requires clear and effective regulation now more than ever.
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InsightFrom New Town to next Core City
Property Week and Milton Keynes Development Partnership recently gathered a mix of industry experts to consider how to meet the plethora of challenges facing the UK’s regional cities and turn them into opportunities.
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InsightThe good ship RICS isn’t about to sink
“There is no such thing as the BBC,” wrote Times columnist Matthew Parris a fair while back, defending ‘Auntie’ from periodic attack. A reminder to those who periodically assault RICS. There’s no corporeal substance into which a knife can be plunged, just a bodiless spirit.
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OnlineBusinesses must predict household vulnerability during cost-of-living crisis
In the latest episode of PropCast, Andrew Teacher sits down with data science firm Outra’s Peter Jackson and the Vulnerability Registration Service’s (VRS) Helen Lord to discuss a new partnership from the two organisations which suggests that nearly 2.5 million British households are at high risk of vulnerability.
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InsightCBRE’s Jen Siebrits on taking stock at the halfway point
It’s hard to believe we are already half way through 2023. It feels like only yesterday we were ringing in the new year and taking down the Christmas decorations and yet here we are at the summer holidays.
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NewsEase the slow squeeze
A joint paper published by Landsec and British Land last week called for planning policy changes to promote urban regeneration on brownfield sites.
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OnlineCEO of Oxford University Developments says flexible real estate is key to fostering innovation
In the latest episode of PropCast, Andrew Teacher speaks to Anna Strongman, CEO of Oxford University Development (OUD), a joint venture between Legal & General and Oxford University.
