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InsightView from the top: Liz Peace, Real Estate Balance chair
The former BPF head and new Real Estate Balance chair explains why she thinks combatting gender inequality in property is more critical than ever during the current Covid-19 crisis
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The future is digital for property transactions
There is little doubt that technological innovation has the ability to completely revolutionise the way we think about property transactions.
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Will SONIA rate bring about a fairer system?
The London interbank offered rate’s (LIBOR’s) role as a base rate in business loans is living on borrowed time.
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Is Fire Safety Bill a step in the right direction?
In a tumultuous year, concerns around fire safety – one of the most pressing issues in the development sector – have been largely overshadowed by the global Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.
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Why we fail at problem-solving
One of the defining factors in determining the eventual impact that Covid-19 will have on the world will be the ability of countries and medtech to collaborate in designing and producing at scale an effective vaccine.
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A stronger industry will emerge
A doctor friend just told me that having turned 60 I would now, in extremis, not be prioritised for a ventilator should one be required.
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Long may the green wave continue
A green wave has rippled throughout Europe over the past 12 months. This shift towards an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism has had a particularly strong impact in Ireland.
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Clouds gather over Irish office markets
Property Week asks what impact the coronavirus lockdown, weakened flexible office sector and Brexit will have on the Belfast and Dublin office markets this year after five years of growth.
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Let’s bring generations together
Costing $90m to create and returning more than $200m, the film 1917 is an award-winning performance that many in the real estate industry would happily replicate.
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Rent Control will not provide more affordable homes
Multifamily build-to-rent (BTR) is likely to remain resilient to the Covid-19 outbreak due to its institutionally funded investment character and stable, long-term income profile.
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View from the top: Tony Pidgley, founder of Berkeley Group
The founder of Berkeley Group talks about the operational challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, why he’s keeping sites open and what he thinks will happen after the lockdown.
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This is a re-set moment for creating value in retail property
Take a moment to look at the havoc wrought in the past few weeks: Debenhams, Carluccio’s, Laura Ashley, Cath Kidston and more have all entered administration or are about to; £7.7bn has been lost in market capitalisation from the top four UK retail REITs; 66% of March’s rent was unpaid; ...
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BTR operators need to go digital to mitigate impact
Editor: The Covid-19 pandemic is putting a strain on build-to-rent operations .
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Property has huge role to play in crisis
Editor: The news that CBRE has secured thousands of beds and car parking spaces near NHS hospitals for use by health service staff battling Covid-19 is truly impressive .
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Covid-19’s long-term impact on sustainability performance
March is a peak reporting period for sustainability teams – at this time of year teams across the globe collate and validate 2019 sustainability performance data from investor and occupier real estate portfolios and crunch it into the formats required for reporting to organisations like GRESB and CDP who benchmark ...
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Coronavirus: Options and Opportunities for Hotel Owners
The numbers alone are enough to cause a fever. For the hospitality industry, COVID-19’s symptoms include single-digit to zero occupancy rates, plummeting revpar and forced closures, and many businesses in the industry will struggle to survive.
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Property Week’s Spring events rescheduled
Since our last update about the difficult decisions that we are facing with our events, and the ongoing and unprecedented circumstances that we are all experiencing together, we have taken the decision to reschedule our spring events.
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The supermarkets’ finest hour
The new decade started with worrying tensions between Iran and the US, which forced crude oil prices to spike to more than $70 a barrel.
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Climate crisis ‘brand’ must change
Jeff Goldblum’s character in the film Jurassic Park delivers a line that is both profound and now a classic internet meme.
