All Insight articles – Page 9
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OnlineCovid-19 pandemic poses the ultimate arbitrage
We are living through the most devastating period in modern history. The damage caused to our economy and society by the 2008 financial crash pales into insignificance by comparison.
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Property Week, Moda Living and hero launch a series of free wellbeing workshops
The Covid-19 lockdown has created a raft of new challenges for everybody. Whether it’s dealing with stress and anxiety, the non-stop flow of news or juggling working with looking after children, we are living through unprecedented times.
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What property bosses are reading in lockdown
With Britain in lockdown for the foreseeable future, some leading real estate figures have made the most of working from home by having another look at their book shelves.
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Why we believe remote working is the future
We’ve been a fully remote company since we started in 2012, aside from a short-lived office ‘experiment’ in 2014.
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When rent forfeiture is not an option
The Coronavirus Act 2020 contains a three-month moratorium on landlords’ ability to forfeit leases of commercial property on the basis of non-payment of rent or other sums.
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Property Week’s Spring events rescheduled
Since our last update about the difficult decisions that we are facing with our events, and the ongoing and unprecedented circumstances that we are all experiencing together, we have taken the decision to reschedule our spring events.
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Propertyshe perspectives: Zoom, a podcast with Thomas Heatherwick CBE and a campaign to save our start-ups
With an incredible 50% of the world now in lockdown, we are getting into the routine of working from home.
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How UK construction is stepping up to the plate in Covid-19 war
While the construction industry comes under fire for allowing building sites to continue to operate during this unprecedented period in UK history, Roger Pulham, Gleeds’ head of health and care, looks at how the sector could in fact play a key role in propping up the NHS if utilised effectively. ...
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Why wellness and wellbeing must be top of business agenda
This is undoubtedly the most uncertain time that many of us have faced in our careers, or in fact our lives, but alongside this uncertainty, I truly believe, comes plenty of opportunity.
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Why hearts and minds matter
The hospitality sector is at war with Covid-19, which is fundamentally changing the way the world works. Though closures might only last a matter of weeks, the impact will be lasting, and in times like these, leaders talk about hearts and minds.
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The 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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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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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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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.
