All Insight articles – Page 12
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InsightWhat can BFS developers learn from BTR model?
Editor: There are inherent differences between build-for-sale (BFS) and build-to-rent (BTR) developments.
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InsightCarbon counting will barely count
Toward the end of an absorbing performance of the play Frank and Percy, Percy (played by Ian McKellen) admits to Frank (Roger Allam) he is being shunned by his academic peers for daring to suggest fighting climate change is hopeless. Frank, newly widowed, and Percy, newly single, edge into a ...
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InsightCapitalRise’s Uma Rajah on why prime central London market is so resilient
As English writer Samuel Johnson so aptly put it in 1777: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”
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InsightDesigns on a healthy market: Big interview with Ademchic founder
Karolina Adamczyk, founder of interior design company Ademchic, tells Property Week why good design can help boost both the wellness of occupiers and the profits of developers.
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InsightSavills UK’s Richard Rees on tackling the causes of youth homelessness
LandAid’s, and the wider property industry’s, efforts to help solve youth homelessness and ensure that everyone has a safe and suitable place to call home have been ongoing for several decades, but have taken on a new urgency in the last few years.
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InsightGrainger’s Helen Gordon on levelling up in action
With HS2 in the news and some questioning the government’s commitment to levelling up, towns and cities across the UK are now positively benefiting from regional investment in build to rent (BTR).
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InsightQ&A: Five minutes with Gerald Eve associate Emily Pearson
Associate in Gerald Eve’s London industrial agency team on inspirational women and the Galapagos.
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InsightI&L take-up falls by almost half in 2023
Speculative development in the sector has also taken a hit, holding back the take-up figures even further.
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InsightOverhaul planning to drive logistics growth
The national debate on planning reform has tended to focus on how we can build more homes, with less attention given to the employment uses needed to create sustainable communities and jobs for local residents.
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InsightMotionspot’s Ed Warner on why progressive firms must include facilities to ease menopause and menstruation symptoms
October is Menopause Awareness month and while a significant proportion of the workforce is made up of people who experience menstruation, menopause, and hormonal change – including women, non-binary individuals, and transgender men and women – little is done in the workplace to acknowledge this.
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InsightPOD’s David Goldberg on the ethical dilemma of management companies skimming commission
Over the years, some property management firms have come under fire for skimming commissions on maintenance contracts. Now, amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and soaring interest rates, this topic has attracted new attention from homeowners and landlords alike.
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InsightInto the woods: Is it time to turn to timber?
Warehouse developers are eager to improve the environmental credentials of their latest buildings, but nearly all are constructed out of concrete and steel. Has the time come to turn to timber?
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InsightCommit to delivering biodiversity net gain
Biodiversity net gain (BNG) legislation, which was due to come into force next month, has now been delayed until January. The legislation requires property developers to deliver a minimum 10% BNG to help protect and enhance the nature on the land they are developing. But why is this legislation important?
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InsightAll things great and small: Interview with Tritax Big Box partner Petrina Austin
Tritax Big Box specialises in owning and managing large warehouses. So, why has the REIT started snapping up smaller logistics sites? Andrew Saunders quizzes partner Petrina Austin on its strategy.
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InsightBe up front about fire risk
An industrial multi-tenant property is only as safe as the riskiest tenant.
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InsightHaysmacintyre’s Paul Atkins on why careful management of tax liabilities is key to navigating cashflow
For developers, the current environment is proving difficult to navigate. After several years of sustained growth in the housing market, prices have been dropping, which, combined with wider economic challenges – not least a sharp rise in interest rates – and the introduction of stringent new regulations, has left developers ...
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InsightHow will the next government tackle property issues?
Editor: There are several well-documented, interconnected issues affecting the UK property market: the affordability crisis; the imbalance between supply and demand; empty and derelict properties; the planning system; and sustainability.
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InsightPrivatisation may fix planning system
Editor: Britain’s planning system is saddling us with all kinds of social and economic problems and must take a large share of the blame for the housing crisis that is freezing a whole generation out of home ownership.
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InsightQ&A: Hines duo discuss the firm’s new European HQ in London
Ross Blair and Robbie Pitman on why the investment giant became the main tenant of its own Covent Garden scheme.
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InsightIt’s time for a change at the top
Last week’s two by-elections were terrible results for the Conservatives. It’s true that if Reform UK’s vote, which attracts some hard-right Tories, had been added to their vote they would have very narrowly won in Mid-Bedfordshire.
