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InsightHot offices index 2020: top five UK and London office locations
The UK’s hottest office locations and top co-working locations, compiled exclusively for Property Week by CACI.
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Hot offices index 2020
The UK’s hottest office locations and top co-working locations, compiled exclusively for Property Week by CACI.
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Design is key in later-living sector
My grandmother always told me that “until you’re 80, nothing changes, but after that your knees start to be sore when you get out of bed”.
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The cash preservation society
“Cash is king.” Never has that well-worn business maxim been more imperative than now, as the country locks down in response to the global coronavirus pandemic.
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We must give back to get heard
The general public has a poor perception of the property industry (27% favourability, according to a British Property Federation/Populus survey) and the government is not prioritising us.
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Jenrick was right to challenge mayor’s London plan
Editor: Given the difficult situation we are in, secretary of state for housing Robert Jenrick’s intervention to prevent mayor Sadiq Khan from publishing the London Plan until requested changes have been made may have slipped through largely unnoticed.
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Housing: it’s time to reassess density
Editor: While the concept of social distancing has stalled the majority of the country’s housebuilding projects , it has also raised the question of whether today’s new homes and developments can handle future pandemics.
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We must retain heritage buildings
Browsing through a junk shop one weekend, I found an old shield with a motto emblazoned across the bottom, Respiciens Prospiciens : ’Looking backwards, looking forwards’.
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Is property immune to Covid-19?
Just as we were moving away from the turmoil of Brexit, we find ourselves facing a new hurdle: Covid-19. I say hurdle and not wall because real estate is a resilient industry and it will overcome this.
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Many factors affect wellbeing of office employees
Editor: In his article, Simon Creasey correctly noted the importance of air quality in offices to the wellbeing of staff .
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Time to show grace under pressure
“Mummy? Daddy? What did you do during the time of coronavirus?”
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We are all reshaping how we live
If 2019 was the year of uncertainty, 2020 is the year that started upbeat but by the end of the first quarter we were reeling from something we had never heard of.
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Purpose of valuation has been lost
Editor: As a retired chartered valuation surveyor with more than 40 years’ experience, I fear that the current debate about valuation models suggests that the profession has lost sight of the fundamental nature and purpose of valuation .
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What matters: this crisis will pass, but it will change us all indelibly
When life eventually returns to normal after the current global Covid-19 crisis – and it shall – it will be a little less like the normal we once knew.
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Covid-19 exclusive appeal
A £90m designer outlet village is set to be built at Scotch Corner.
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Connectivity key to UK’s future
As many UK workers currently sit at home and try to virtually recreate their work environment, politicians and businesses need to ask how we remain a world-leading country and economy after Brexit and the impact of Covid-19.
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More action is required on business rates relief
Editor: Some businesses can breathe a little easier following last week’s Budget. As Property Week reported, the chancellor announced that any eligible retail, leisure or hospitality business with a rateable value of less than £51,000 will pay no business rates this year .
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Budget measures must help everyone
Editor: Extra business rates relief measures announced by the chancellor this week, added to those in the Budget, should go far in helping the retail and leisure sector through the worst of the current coronavirus crisis .
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So much for the brighter outlook
Just when things were looking up, along came a global pandemic.
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M&A time for specialist lenders
The recent CharterCourt and OneSavingsBank merger, and Foresight Group’s acquisition of Signature Private Finance, may be a sign of things to come in the specialist finance market.
