All Insight articles – Page 13
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Exploring proptech solutions
Freeths and Property Week brought together a panel of experts from across the industry to discuss how proptech innovations can help the real estate industry deal with challenges such as economic headwinds, the shift to hybrid working and deep societal issues such as combatting climate change.
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Infrastructure is key to housing crisis
Editor: The prime minister’s party conference speech had little mention of the housebuilding sector – in fact, it had zero. We did hear, however, that if we are to “create change and drive growth across our country”, then “we must get our infrastructure right”.
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Prime minister needs to match words with action
Editor: To make substantial change to housing scarcity, we should be overhauling both our strategy and regulations in a number of key areas – not least by beginning to fix our broken planning system.
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FORE Partnership’s Basil Demeroutis on the bonfire of politics
The storms lashing our economy have been mirrored by the battering the green transformation has taken these last few weeks. Grasping a straw from the Uxbridge by-election, prime minister Rishi Sunak has retreated on, well, just about everything
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Big interview with country homes specialist Lindsay Cuthill on his new boutique estate agency
Frustrated but not ready to retire, country homes specialist Lindsay Cuthill quit his big agency job in his early sixties to start a boutique estate agency. He tells Property Week why Blue Book is needed.
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The Good Economy’s Vivienne King on solving inequality with place-based impact investing
While local authorities face an increasing number of complex challenges to support local economic resilience, sustainable development and levelling up within their own ‘backyards’, and all with reducing resources, there is a growing number of engaged asset managers who are seeking to make a positive contribution to the sustainable development ...
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Kroll’s John Slade on navigating the current property landscape
There is no point sugar-coating it: 2023 has so far been a tough year for the UK’s commercial real estate market.
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Two worlds are starting to turn
Planet property: Peter Bill considers the performance of femail asset managers and shares his thoughts on Comer v Greenwich.
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Patron Capital’s Keith Breslauer on why bigger is not always better for funds
Headlines often sway towards hyperbole and the stories that get attention are the ones that speak of record highs or lows.
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The journey of a proptech pioneer
Guy Windsor-Lewis, founder of proptech business Locale, tells Property Week how his adventurous spirit helped the firm get ahead of the curve in providing smart building management systems for landlords.
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‘PV power is a long-term investment’
Hollis director Stuart Patience tells Property Week about the pros and cons of photovoltaic power and the challenges involved in installation projects.
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Accelerating decarbonisation through public and private partnerships
UK cities and local authorities have set ambitious decarbonisation targets to meet the challenge of climate change and ensure a cleaner, more secure future for residents and businesses.
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Cenergist’s Caroline Gray-Mason on why developers must address water neutrality
Nutrient neutrality is a much-discussed issue following the recent political football it created, with the House of Lords rejecting government legislation to remove EU-era rules relating to river pollution caused by housing developments.
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Pocket Living’s Marc Vlessing on why the government must support SME housebuilders
Competition and choice are two words most would expect to be intrinsically linked to the ideology of any Conservative government. Yet these are two words very rarely heard from ministers, especially when it comes to housing and planning.
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Freehold’s Next Gen Board Member Sarah Chapman on how millennials and Gen Z are driving LGBTQ+ inclusion in real estate
In the real estate industry, a much-needed transformation to become more inclusive and diverse is under way. As part of National Inclusion Week, Eric Chou and Sarah Chapman explain how millenials and Gen Z are driving this change.
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Canada Life Asset Management’s Joanna Turner on evolving EDI
As part of National Inclusion Week, Joanna Turner considers the challenges and opportunities for women in the predominantly male real estate sector and how the sector has evolved.
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Property is leading on sustainability
Editor: The prime minister’s recent changes to the UK’s important environmental commitments means there is an opportunity for a new focus when it comes to reaching net zero.
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Sunak’s rollback of net zero targets is ‘short-term thinking’
Industry experts have expressed anger at the government’s plans to delay its sustainability commitments.
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Net zero policy changes will have minimal impact
Editor: The prime minister’s announcement on key net zero policies has been met with widespread frustration from the public, industry and media.
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All eyes on sustainability
As he wrestled with getting the economy back on track in the aftermath of the 2008-09 global financial crisis, then prime minister David Cameron was reported to have told ministers and civil servants alike to “cut the green crap”. This from a man who just a few years previously had ...