All Insight articles – Page 2
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InsightHarworth Group’s Lynda Shillaw on counting the cost of local plan delays
Wrexham is riding on a wave of celebration, having won promotion to the English Football League, but it may have also relegated economic development and housing delivery to the non-league after councillors voted by a slim majority not to adopt their own Local Development Plan (LDP).
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Countryside Partnerships’ Verity MacMahon on why planning needs to keep up pace
The government’s latest proposals to reform the planning system are sparking controversy for a sector that has been turbulent for many years. Yet, despite the noise surrounding the need for reform, very little has really changed for decades.
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Prestbury Investments’ Nick Leslau on the real estate battlefield
In the last 12 months, the already challenged real estate world has morphed, yet again, into a new battlefield of conflicting pressures, which have resulted in some of the fastest valuation write-downs in my near-four decades operating in the UK market. Is there a simple explanation?
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Residents have rights too, Mr Norris
Steve Norris is surely writing tongue in cheek in his recent comment piece .
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Government must get to grips with housing crisis
The housing crisis lurches from tragedy to farce and no one is making any more land, leaving millions of renters lightyears away from owning their own residence.
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Alastair Stewart on the futureproofing of new housing developments
Snow in May – even if it is in Manchester? Except the artificially produced flurry is not at the northern capital’s indoor ski slope but from a housing research project trying to preserve the future of the natural white stuff.
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Pocket’s Marc Vlessing on how an SME housebuilding renaissance can help fill the delivery vacuum
The longest and arguably most interventionist demand-side state-sponsored housing policy since the Right to Buy has come to a final end, bringing the curtain down on its 10th anniversary.
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Watts’ Hayley Coles on RAAC and the property manager’s nightmare
Reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete (RAAC) planks are now considered to be short-life materials where failure, while rare, could have disastrous consequences.
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Aviva Investors’ Ben Sanderson on why polarisation in real estate is only going to increase
‘A rising tide lifts all boats’ commonly described recoveries in real estate in the 1990s and 2010s, when most sectors experienced sharply rising capital values.
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Mishcon de Reya’s Susan Freeman on whether it is time for a real estate rebrand
Liz Peace recently delivered an excellent Chapman Barrigan Memorial lecture. As a former British Property Federation (BPF) chief executive, whose current roles include chairmanship of Real Estate Balance and Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, Peace has a good overview of the real estate sector.
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Let’s not be lizards
The incomparable Douglas Adams, much-missed author and satirist, died 22 years ago this week. The passing years have not blunted his many sharp insights. Take, for example, his view of the political animal, outlined in the fourth Hitchhikers book, when the dialogue turns to an unhappy democracy of humans ruled ...
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Vita Group’s Rob Parker on the perfect start-up accelerator for entrepreneurs
The pandemic and now the cost-of-living crisis have forced young adults to find ways to supplement their income. As many as one in five young adults are currently looking for a second income stream to support their lifestyle.
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Prime office values are still resilient
Your recent article ‘Cautious optimism as outlook brightens’ noted that the latest MSCI data shows recovery in UK commercial real estate overall. However, it records falling office values, which we believe are mainly due to the rise in interest rates.
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Shore Capital Markets' Dr Clive Black on the CMA and the working of supermarkets
The reputation of politicians ebbs and flows, but now deep-sea creatures more often than not come to mind, such are the country’s scars from recent prime ministers the ever-lively Theresa May, the trustworthy Boris Johnson and the wildly off-the-cuff Liz Truss. If the Tories’ homework had to be marked, accommodating ...
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Airspace development can help avoid obsolescence
William Hulls’ letter highlighted software solutions for the monitoring and management of energy in the face of increasing MEES. But many small and mid-sized commercial landlords face a much bigger ‘hardware’ problem.
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BPF’s Melanie Leech on treating causes not symptoms
Political parties make big promises to us during their election campaigns about how things will be different (or better) once they are elected.
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‘We want to be the UK’s largest housebuilder’: Big interview with Countryside Partnerships
Stephen Teagle, chief executive of Countryside Partnerships, tells Property Week about the housebuilder’s growth plans following its merger with Vistry Group and the outlook for the sector.
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Mipim Charity Tennis Tournament 2023
The “Make A Racket” Mipim Charity Tennis Tournament celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2023, and it did not disappoint players, sponsors & spectators alike.
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Patron Capital’s Keith Breslauer on spotting the big opportunities
It can be hard to look at a situation clearly when you are living through it. How do you know which band is heading for the rock-and-roll hall of fame and which will be a one-hit wonder whose fate is to be the answer in a pub quiz?
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Boyer’s Nigel Booen on whether King Charles’s views will continue to influence the built environment
In his seven-decade apprenticeship for the role of monarch, King Charles exerted considerable influence in the fields of architecture and sustainability. It is only in retrospect that we can fully appreciate his influence on the topics that are so current in design today: stewardship, mixed tenure, biophilia and ‘beauty’, to ...
