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InsightLetter from New York
High anxiety grips New York’s real estate world with the approach on 7 September of Labor Day, the holiday that marks the unofficial end of summer.
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Planners failing on sustainability
Editor: The Town and Country Planning Association survey findings are no surprise, but hugely frustrating given the focus on sustainability, climate change and now, driving a green economy ( ‘Most planning committees fail to “seriously consider” climate crisis’ ).
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Crime without punishment?
A damning report claims agents are ‘enabling’ the flow of dirty Russian money into the UK. So how culpable is the industry and what can be done to tackle the issue?
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Time to plan for an ageing population
Editor: Housing secretary Robert Jenrick’s announcement of ‘radical reform’ to the country’s antiquated planning system must be celebrated ( ‘Jenrick to announce radical planning shake-up’ )
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View from the top: Matthew Howell, RICS UK managing director
RICS UK managing director talks to Anviksha Patel about the challenges facing the institution as it grapples with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic – and the major changes it has made in response
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Smith & Williamson think tank: the changing role of strategic land
Property Week, in association with Smith Williamson, brought together a panel of experts to discuss the role of strategic land in the wider development industry. They talked about the impact of lockdown and the changes they expect to see post-Covid-19, the importance of physical environment to wellbeing and ...
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Letter from New York
New York City’s gradual awakening from the pandemic has yet to include Midtown Manhattan: the iconic, skyscraper-filled commercial core and nation’s economic powerhouse. The area is hushed and near-funereal in empty Times Square and little-traversed Rockefeller Center.
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Offices may emerge stronger
There seems to be major angst building over how real estate will respond to seemingly conflicting reports about how productive and safe everybody is at home, versus the time and expense of working from an office.
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Developers must consider the neighbours
Editor: The government giveth with one hand and taketh with the other in its planning system reforms ( ‘Industry reacts to Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 recovery speech’ ).
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They bet big, but will councils lose big?
Local authority investment in property has soared in recent years. Property Week asks what now as values and rental income crash.
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Alternative fix for housing crisis
It is no secret that the UK is suffering from one of the worst housing crises in generations.
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Help to Buy alone is not enough
Green shoots have started to show in the housing market, from an uptick in mortgage enquiries, renewed interest in certain properties such as houses with gardens, and big statements of confidence from major housebuilders such as Taylor Wimpey.
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The traditional office has advantages over flexi space
Editor: I have followed your articles by Steve Jude, chief executive of NewFlex, on the whys and wherefores of the service office market for many years and have always found him optimistic about the serviced office market competing with, and perhaps taking over, from the traditional market.
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Property Week’s events are returning soon
Following the government’s announcement that conferences and exhibitions will be permitted in England from 1 October, Property Week has published its updated event schedule.
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View from the top: Michael Ingall, CEO of Allied London
The Allied London CEO talks to Property Week about Covid-19 construction delays, seismic shifts in the perception of property caused by the pandemic and the critical importance of a diverse portfolio
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Letter from New York
New York State governor Andrew Cuomo broke restaurant-lovers’ hearts when he renewed the indoor dining ban that was expected to be lifted on July 20.
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WFH and offices go hand in hand
In one of his recent podcasts, renowned real estate consultant Antony Slumbers, who coined the term ‘space as a service’ in 2014, described the magnitude of the Covid-19 effect thus: “There will be history books with titles such as ‘The Calamitous Third Week of March 2020’, when (in the UK) ...
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Why the stamp duty move is still not enough
Looking back in history, whenever the UK economy has faced a recession, the government has always looked to the housing market to stimulate activity – Help to Buy being the effort that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
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Are cities off the menu?
While cities remain quieter than usual as lockdown eases, local neighbourhoods have burst into life. Property Week looks at how F B operators are capitalising and asks: what next for the sector?
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The return to offices calls for some flexibility
Editor: Gerald Kaye’s column did a fantastic job of extolling the office’s virtues and pointing out home-working’s limitations.
