All Insight articles – Page 11
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InsightBuilding consensus: big interview with new UKGBC chief exec Smith Mordak
UKGBC’s new chief executive Smith Mordak talks exclusively to Property Week’s Lem Bingley about the challenge of shifting hearts and minds in spite of current headwinds.
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InsightDolphin Living’s Olivia Harris on the need for a new consensus on housing
We are no more than 12 months away from the next general election and it shows. Although party conference season is a fast-fading memory, housing and planning dominated all of them to various degrees.
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InsightWe need to learn to live with nature, not against it
This headline comes from a quote by Sir David Attenborough, taken from the documentary series: The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet.
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InsightAshbyCapital’s Peter Ferrari on why property can only remain a stable investment if it evolves
It is true that the world is never far from crisis, but it seems the pace of global turmoil has been relentless of late. It is one wave of negativity after another, even greater, wave: the widespread and lingering impact of the global financial crisis, uncertainty around Brexit, new prime ...
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InsightHeart of London’s Ros Morgan on the BID revolution
Over the last decade, business improvement districts (BIDs) have emerged as influential catalysts of community-driven initiatives, promoting local businesses’ capacity to elevate and improve their surroundings.
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InsightPreim’s Oliver Taylor on why transparency is needed to shed the ‘fleecehold’ stigma
‘Fleecehold’ seems to be a catch-all phrase that is associated with almost any circumstance in which charges are paid by owners of freehold properties in addition to their mortgage and council tax.
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InsightApprentice Jessica Walker’s take on why surveying is an interesting career
Jessica Walker is currently an apprentice in Watts’ building surveying team while she completes her building surveying degree at the University of Salford. This is an essay she submitted for her RICS coursework explaining her thoughts on why real estate is a great place to work. Jessica Walker is currently ...
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InsightThe open-ended fund model is outdated
Editor: Your recent front-page story asked: “Is it the end of the road for open-ended funds?” If that is the case, it has been a slow demise.
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InsightTrump’s holdings don’t hold up
Former US president Donald Trump is on trial or facing trial in half a dozen criminal and civil cases. The most serious one involves his role in alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
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InsightStorm clouds are gathering over the office market
The sector faces challenges and a correction lies ahead – so buyers and occupiers have much to consider.
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InsightWhat do we need from a Leasehold Reform Bill?
Editor: At this stage in the electoral cycle, we need a Leasehold Reform Bill that is sufficiently comprehensive that it benefits leaseholders, while being sufficiently realistic that it can be passed before the next election.
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InsightKeep calm and carry on: Big interview with SEGRO’s David Sleath
Macroeconomic factors may have buffeted industrial giant SEGRO – and the rest of the industry – over the past year, but chief executive David Sleath foresees better times ahead, as Lem Bingley reports.
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InsightRIB’s Antony Antoniou on investment repercussions as WeWork files for bankruptcy in US
WeWork’s decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US has prompted concerns about what could happen to investment in the UK’s flexible office sector, should it also go into administration here.
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InsightGRS’s Hongming Chen on the robots bringing manufacturing and logistics back home
In today’s fractured geopolitical landscape, how countries manufacture and transport goods is a key topic for the property industry.
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InsightSteven & Bolton’s Sarah Cardew on whether freeport ships will be allowed safe harbour
With political uncertainty ahead in the run-up to the next general election, will the politics surrounding freeports be put aside in favour of waiting out the initial tax incentive time limits, to really understand the return on the Exchequer’s investment in these special tax sites?
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InsightThrive Homes’ Elspeth Mackenzie on the power of affordable housing
Affordable housing transcends the confines of mere shelter; it is the cornerstone of a nation’s economic prosperity. Addressing this fundamental human need isn’t just a social obligation; it’s an economic imperative that sparks growth, creates jobs and nurtures communities.
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InsightReintroduction of Help to Buy would be ‘pouring kerosene on the fire’, say UKAA conference panellists
Panellists speaking at the UK Apartment Association’s (UKAA’s) build-to-rent (BTR) conference warned that the reintroduction of support schemes such as Help to Buy would impede the sector and inflate house prices.
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InsightCobalt Recruitment’s Megan Bond on diversity in the real estate sector
While the industry is aware that both the perceptions and reality of diversity in Real Estate need to change to ensure the very best available talent can get in and get on, there are still barriers to progress in this area.
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InsightIES’s David Ross on why post-occupancy evaluation is the secret weapon in the building performance battle
If there was an established and accepted method of making commercial buildings operate more efficiently to drive out waste, drive up value and reduce emissions, everyone would want to know about it, right?
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InsightHousing crisis: blame game unhelpful
Editor: There is a certain pantomime played out by politicians and the media when discussing housing policy, illustrated perfectly in the recent BBC programme Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong?
