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InsightYardi digital think tank: how will Covid-19 impact offices?
Yardi brought together a panel of experts to discuss how the current coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures will affect the flexible workspace sector, how office landlords and tenants will respond to remote working trends, how design and occupier requirements could change and the role of technology.
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Rates revaluation threatens recovery
Editor: For new rating lists to start next April, at a time when large scale physical changes may still be taking place, or at least bedding-in, just doesn’t make economic sense.
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Sale-and-leaseback of limited value
Editor: Sale-and-leasebacks are sometimes a good idea, but it depends on who the retailer is . The upside is that it’s a very quick way to raise capital and retailers are meant to be operational businesses rather than property companies, so it’s quite normal to operate from a leasehold estate. ...
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View from the top: Andrew Jones, head of LondonMetric
The head of LondonMetric, which pivoted from retail to logistics several years ago, explains to Property Week why he thinks Covid-19 is merely accelerating retail’s long-term decline and logistics’ growth
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Is self-build set to take off in the UK?
Property Week reports on a new Welsh government-backed self-build scheme that could inspire more people to take the DIY approach to home ownership
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Onshoring progress is welcome
Conversations about the economy and taxation have been difficult to avoid in recent weeks. Questions around how the UK will eventually return to normal – whatever that might now mean – after a lockdown are now absolutely critical.
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The guessing games are in full swing
As suggested here on 27 March, the level of grace under Covid-19 pressure will define reputations post-pandemic: that decency, or lack of it, will be remembered on the far side. Four weeks closer to the far side, grace and its twin virtue, decency, continue to predominate.
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Isolation will force an office rethink
During a recent interview with Bloomberg Television, Morgan Stanley chairman and chief executive James Gorman suggested that the current pandemic had prompted the global banking giant to reconsider its real estate portfolio.
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It is time to ease the lockdown
Under his Twitter title, TV star Piers Morgan posts one of his favourite sayings: “One day you’re cock of the walk, the next a feather duster.”
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Covid-19 magnifies sector trends
Property investors are currently rightly focusing on mitigating the negative impacts of coronavirus.
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Fundamentals of PRS remain strong
Editor: The recent roundtable discussion on the future of the residential property sector was all the timelier given the economic impact of Covid-19 and the increasing uncertainty now faced by a market only recently buoyed by the election and greater clarity around Brexit.
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View 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.
