All Insight articles – Page 23
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InsightShopkeepers’ Campaign’s Vivienne King on businesses thinking big in the north
It has been a momentous fortnight for those of us caught up in the mission to keep Britain’s high streets alive and kicking.
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InsightHope versus housing
Labour’s attempts to portray itself as the party to get Britain building have begun in earnest, with a couple of policies floated so far that appear surprisingly bold and more than a little divisive.
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InsightReed Smith’s Katherine Campbell on why something needs to give for high street rates
More than 17,000 shops closed in the UK in 2022 – nearly 50% more than in 2021.
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InsightPlanning system is not underfunded
I write in response to comments by Ian Fletcher, director of planning at the British Property Federation (BPF), that “England’s planning system has been underfunded and under-resourced for at least a decade” and government needs to increase fees to “bolster planning teams”.
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InsightRIF vehicle could help stimulate economic growth
Your piece ‘Planned RIF vehicle promises to boost property investment’ referred to my lead role campaigning for the Reserved Investor Fund (RIF) in the context of a welcomed HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs consultation on the RIF.
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InsightPeter Bill on the property industry’s nervousness and optimism
Last Thursday lunchtime in the City, Montagu Evans managing partner Rob Bower summed up the mood of the sector as “jittery”. There is reassurance at the mending economic outlook, but jumpiness each time higher-priced money causes a financial fuse to blow, resulting in yet another repossession in a market hardwired ...
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InsightPuma’s Eliot Kaye on opportunities for developers in the strong student market
In the not-so-distant past, a mention of student accommodation would bring to mind mouldy rooms, unreliable appliances and – worse – landlords who would take a month to send someone around to fix the boiler.
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InsightAitch Group to carry on abroad: interview with founder and CEO Henry Smith
Founder and chief executive Henry Smith reveals to Mel Flaherty why the developer is focusing its attention on the purpose-built student accommodation sector and looking for opportunities overseas.
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InsightSavills’ Richard Rees on why delivering energy infrastructure is increasingly important
A strong national infrastructure system has many facets, from providing comprehensive education, social care and healthcare to keep people happy and healthy through to delivering roads, water and energy to support the functioning of society and economic growth.
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InsightMaterial steps for tackling inflation
Editor: Disruption to the construction sector caused by the volatility of material price inflation shows no signs of abating, with recent analysis of Office for National Statistics data showing inflation added £23bn to the cost of the sector’s output compared with pre-pandemic levels.
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InsightGovernment support needed to boost BTR delivery
Editor: Four years since then prime minister Theresa May first promised “a better deal for renters” ahead of 2019’s general election, three PMs and a global pandemic later, the government introduced the long-anticipated Renters’ Reform Bill last week.
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InsightDream come true for student sector: interview with Bricks Group founder Pete Prickett
When Bricks Group founder Pete Prickett turned his focus from hotels to student accommodation, he knew his student brand ‘true’ could offer an often poorly served market something different.
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InsightSoho Estates' Steve Norris on the housing political battleground
I make no apology for returning to the residential market this week because what both major political parties are saying is now significantly different.
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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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InsightCountryside 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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InsightPrestbury 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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InsightResidents have rights too, Mr Norris
Steve Norris is surely writing tongue in cheek in his recent comment piece .
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InsightGovernment 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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InsightAlastair 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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InsightPocket’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.
