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InsightConstruction PR’s Sarah Kauter on sustainable construction trends to look out for
Ensuring your business is doing everything in its power to stay ahead of the latest industry trends has always been essential to success, and with the challenges faced by the industry throughout 2022 – including the cost-of-living crisis, extravagant energy costs and material shortages – this has never proved truer.
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NEAT Developments’ Youssef Kadiri on stacked industrial
The latest version of the London Plan included some subtle but significant changes to industrial land policies, particularly Policy E7, which protected strategic industrial land from exploitation by housebuilders.
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SAY Property Consulting’s Debra Yudolph on BTR and the cost-of-living crisis
How should the build-to-rent sector respond to the cost-of-living crisis, and how will it shape future development?
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The circle of life sciences
This week I learned a new word, although I’m not sure it’s a real one that has made it into any dictionaries. ‘Cycology’ is the belief that events will run in predictable cycles, with the implied hope that you can make better decisions if you can see where you are ...
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Get in the zone with regen leases
At the Convention of the North in Manchester on 25 January, housing secretary Michael Gove announced the government’s recommitment to investment zones. The initiative will allow some local authorities to designate sites that will be earmarked for tax cuts, relaxed regulation and planning simplifications within that area.
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FlexSA’s Jane Sartin on the role flexible workspaces can play in a recession
Despite November’s apparent bounceback, we’re all gearing up for what would be the second recession in three years. Covid-19 has maybe left us more resilient, but still, we’ll need to be as prepared as possible if this one is as long and deep as some analysts are predicting.
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Clock is ticking for consensus on planning policy
Although criticism of the government’s approach to housing is nothing new, recent news that four former housing ministers have spoken out against current policy should sound clear alarm bells for anyone involved in the development arena
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Cain International’s Ellen Brunsberg on preparing for a year of confusion
I want to wish you all a ‘Happy! 2023?’. The unorthodox punctuation is deliberate: It shows my uncertainty and conviction. I am both enthusiastic and uncertain. Which reflects the year we’re about to enter: prepare for 2023 to be a year of confusion.
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Hilltop Credit Partners’ Paul Oberschneider on how SMEs can adapt to the challenges of 2023
There are very few sectors of the UK economy sheltered from the impact of repeated interest hikes, and real estate is not one of them. Over the past 12 months, the market has moved from a zero-rate environment to one where the cost of capital has been gradually rising, affecting ...
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Distrkt’s Camilla Topham on the not-so-dry January for hospitality
The market has never felt harder to predict. Early in January on a Tuesday evening I visited a West End foodhall and was astounded by how busy it was.
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Soho Estates’ Steve Norris on grade III listings
Designer and TV presenter Kevin McCloud is a legend. Which of us doesn’t watch Grand Designs just to see how much grief couples go through to build the house of their dreams?
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Mipim 2023: Vive la différence
After a Covid-affected few years, delegates are expected to return in large numbers for this year’s Mipim in Cannes. Event director Nicolas Kozubek outlines to Adam Branson the main topics of the 2023 programme.
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UK’s net zero plan must not overlook the obvious
MP Chris Skidmore’s Net Zero Review laudably focuses on making homes more energy efficient, but I join my property industry colleagues in calling for greater collaboration between the public and private sectors to truly tackle the UK’s energy efficiency challenge.
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Rates revaluation is a boost for retail
It is welcome news that M&S is planning a £480m investment across its UK stores, generating, as reported, more than 3,400 jobs and opening five new full-service stores: in Leeds White Rose, Liverpool One, the Bullring Birmingham, Manchester Trafford Centre and Lakeside Thurrock.
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Ashby Capital’s Peter Ferrari on whether life sciences can throw a life line to London
After a turbulent second half of 2022, exemplified by shrinking investment volumes as buyers kept their powder dry amid elevated inflation, rising interest rates and geo-political uncertainty, predictions for 2023 were understandably gloomy.
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Street-level drive for regeneration
Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands, tells Property Week why he’s confident the region will deliver on its 2031 housing targets and what lies behind its success in securing billions of pounds from developers.
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BRiCS Development’s Hugo Reeve on solutions to help SMEs deliver
In the past few weeks, several of Britain’s big developers have put out warnings about slowing or scaling back activity this year, owing to challenging operating and regulatory conditions.
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Blend’s Roxana Mohammadian-Molina on the three property trends to watch for in 2023
We are undoubtably living through times of unprecedented economic uncertainty and financial volatility, the consequences of which are being felt most severely by many in the housing market. As 2023 gets under way, here’s my take on the three property trends to watch for in 2023.
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Essensys’s James Shannon on the importance of cybersecurity
Think cybersecurity and your mind can be drawn to clandestine government agents targeting each other’s state-level digital infrastructure during times of crisis behind closed doors.
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What lies ahead for housing?
This week has served up plenty of food for thought on housebuilding, and a dog’s breakfast of industry reactions that run from bleak pessimism to blithe optimism.
