All Insight articles – Page 9
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InsightView from the top: Brandon Hollihan, founding partner of Castleforge Partners
The founding partner of Castleforge Partners talks to Property Week about the private real estate investment firm’s guiding principles and what areas he sees the business investing in post pandemic.
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Q&A: LandAid chief executive Paul Morrish on pro bono opportunities
LandAid chief exec Paul Morrish discusses pro bono opportunities in this week’s Q A.
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Builders left bitter by share slide
“We announced fantastic results, our order book went up strongly, we increased the land bank and our net cash position soared. And guess what? Our shares went down.”
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We mustn’t cast graduates aside
When I started work in this great property business in the 1960s, I had the best possible start to my career. I joined Moss Partners, one of the most active firms in London’s West End at the time, owned by Lewis and Derrick Moss. It specialised in the ...
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The fate of statues under the new National Planning Policy Framework
On 20 July, MHCLG published its latest revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
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HMV expansion plan is utter madness
Editor: This week, HMV announced a controversial new plan to expand its store estate, opening 10 new stores including a search for a new London flagship site, following the closure of HMV’s Oxford Street store back in 2018 when the company fell into administration ( ‘HMV seeks 10 new store ...
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Retail to resi: quality should always trump quantity
Editor: With regard to your recent story ( ‘Derelict high streets could provide 500,000 homes’ ), it is true that converting empty shops could provide urgently needed homes and help stimulate the recovery of town centres. There are also important environmental benefits to repurposing space in this way.
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New Use Class E to Residential: A gamechanger or damp squib?
As part of Project Speed, the government’s post-pandemic recovery agenda, a new Commercial, Business and Service classification, Use Class E was introduced to reduce red tape and planning bureaucracy for minor and incidental change of use planning applications.
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Expansion of ULEZ to impact more than 2,000 commercial properties
From 26 October 2021, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in London will be expanding to the north and south circular roads.
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Income Analytics aiming to shake up real estate valuation
Income Analytics’ INCANS Score dashboard aims to transform real estate valuation by making income, rather than cap rates or rent multipliers, the key factor. Will it succeed, asks Property Week .
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Offices will not suffer like retail
It only took ecommerce penetration to reach 15% in the UK to ultimately reduce the value of retail real estate by more than one third between 2018 and 2020.
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Private equity makes a supermarket sweep
Buses – wait for ages then three come along at once. Such is the case with the interest shown by CD R, Apollo and Fortress in Morrisons, an equity that has been sidelined in price terms for a sustained period.
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View from the top: Matthew Pratt, chief executive of Redrow
The Redrow chief executive talks to Property Week about his ‘baptism by fire’, why the housebuilder handed back furlough money, the importance of building safety and the contentious issue of cladding.
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Tough times for British Land and Landsec
We read REITs’ reports and accounts from back to front for those interesting notes tucked away. This year, both Landsec’s and British Land’s reports include new data on portfolio energy performance.
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The time is right for ‘brandlords’
The flexible workspace market is still growing apace, but it’s not just flexspace and co-working operators that are fuelling supply. Landlords and commercial property investment groups are also investing in flexspace brands, side-stepping partnerships with existing operators to take a DIY approach.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Adam Kamani, co-founder of MoveStreets
Adam Kamani, co-founder of MoveStreets and chief executive of Kamani Property Group, on how he got started in the property industry. He also shares his cultural tips and his number-one travel destination.
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Business leaders must act fast to ease office-return fears
The announcement by the prime minister that work-from-home guidance would be lifted on 19 July was met with a sense of optimism by business leaders and property owners, who since March 2020 have faced uncertainty around workforce operations and tenancies.
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Maintaining Your Assets
Last month, a consultation from the British Board of Agrément revealed intense dissatisfaction amongst building product manufacturers regarding the quality of workmanship within the RMI sector.
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Office space must evolve with occupants’ needs
Over the last few months we’ve seen a great deal of mixed-messaging and uncertainty from the Government around the sensitive issue of returning to the office.
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‘Pingdemic’ causes more construction turbulence
Editor: With an increasing number of construction workers having to isolate due to being pinged by the Covid app, the industry could be in for a rough month or so until the guidance changes in mid-August.
