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InsightWhat role do department stores have in repositioning our high streets for the future?
The collapse of BHS gave the market a stark warning of what could happen to the brand that time forgot. Four years later a quarter of the stores remain vacant and with a tranche of department stores likely to follow, is repurposing the answer?
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‘Manchester is prime for investment’
According to predictions made in CBRE’s 2021 UK Real Estate Market Outlook, the office market is set to pick back up, with a focus on redesign, premium collaboration spaces and Grade A space proving more popular than ever and we can report that UK office yields will remain stable despite ...
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High streets need a non-retail fix
As we start to envisage the end of the Covid crisis, our high streets and surrounding neighbourhoods will play a huge role in how we look closer to home for all those services or occupations we were previously travelling for.
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Why social capital is now key
In the aftermath of 9/11, intense and ultimately misguided speculation surrounded the future of high-rise developments. Similarly, many are today heralding the end of traditional office occupation as we know it following the pandemic.
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View from the top: Gillian Charlesworth, chief executive of BRE Group
The chief executive of BRE Group tells Property Week why she restructured the team, what she thinks of the government’s commitment to zero-carbon homes and why the industry must stamp out greenwashing.
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Even the Black Death had its silver lining
The lights are once more going out all over Europe. But the darkest hours in pandemics have often heralded glorious dawns. The horrors of the Great War and even deadlier flu gave way to the Roaring Twenties; the vast social changes wrought by the Black Death ignited the Renaissance.
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The West End will bounce back
The past 12 months have been unimaginably difficult for the retail and hospitality sectors, including all of our businesses across the West End.
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Hotels have to adapt to survive
Hotels are experiencing pressures like never before and while the vaccination rollout gives cause for hope, cases remain high and we are still in a strict lockdown – some distance from a total fix.
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Insight
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
This time last year, no one could have predicted what was to come. Is the outlook clearer at the start of 2021?
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Let tax reform foot the bill for Covid
Editor: Several suggestions are being made as to how we can pay the £400bn bill for the pandemic, such as the imposition of a wealth tax, a raid on pension funds, or withdrawal of tax relief on ISAs. I think none of these are appropriate or politically acceptable.
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PBSA sector needs government help
Editor: With students across the UK having been hit hard financially by the pandemic as they pay for unused student accommodation, the purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector also finds itself disrupted by financial turmoil as it tries to resolve the issue without support from the government (‘ Unite offers students ...
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Forecast for 2021: New year’s resolutions (part two)
As part of Property Week’s annual preview feature we asked some of the industry’s leading lights to list their personal and/or professional resolutions for the new year. This is what they said…
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Riverside revival for Sunderland
Confidence may be in short supply in towns and cities across the country, given the uncertainty we face as we move through the latest national lockdown. But in Sunderland, confidence remains high.
