All Insight articles – Page 25
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InsightBGP’s Victoria Broadhead on how retail brands are seeking out opportunities across the UK
One of the effects of the pandemic was that the public became more familiar with the retailing ‘on our doorstep’. The shopping that millions of us might have done in the places we worked was now being done close to where we lived.
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InsightTackling second-homes crisis key for coastal towns
Investment in levelling up the less urban regions of the UK will only be truly effective if we curb the number of second homes in our coastal towns.
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InsightTech can combat asset uncertainty
I sympathise with the concern expressed in your recent article ‘Asset price plummet dubbed “biggest ever”’. While large-scale economic factors such as the lingering effects of the pandemic are harming industrial and office values, the general sentiment of hesitance in the sector is further slowing the market.
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InsightFrench connection, UK ambitions
When it comes to British commercial property, folk don’t come earlier educated than Phillippa Prongué. ‘Pip’, to friends, is as English as a Barbour jacket and Hunter wellies. The surname? Pip’s husband is French.
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InsightTurley’s Richard Laming on why digitisation of the UK planning system is not just a pipedream
Looking back over its nearly 80-year history, it is clear England’s town and country planning system has experienced unprecedented transformation in recent years.
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InsightBarratt goes big on quality: interview with Barratt Developments' chief executive David Thomas
The housebuilding giant’s chief executive David Thomas tells Andy Hillier how a focus on ‘quality, service and sustainability’ has helped steer the company through choppy economic waters
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InsightHammock’s Marco Ferrari on the rise of buy-to-let limited companies
Changes in tax, stricter regulations and a stronger focus on compliance: the property industry has seen a strong push towards the professionalisation of landlords over the last few years, and more changes are on the horizon. Consequently, landlords are looking at new ways to manage their property business.
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InsightLinesight’s Giles Heather on industrial intensification
The emerging trend of ‘industrial intensification’ is bringing distribution centres into much closer proximity with residential development, and bringing new opportunities for developers, occupiers and communities.
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InsightGove’s cheap blast at social landlords not helpful
Editor: No doubt it was well intentioned, but housing secretary Michael Gove has played a dangerous hand in the social housing blame game. It was a cheap blast to accuse social landlords of neglecting their tenants, even as he shirked the suggestion that government cuts were partly to blame.
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InsightMEES: how to stay ahead of the curve
Editor: Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are now in force across England and Wales, and commercial properties that have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating below ‘E’ will no longer be granted tenancy, unless eligible for an exemption.
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InsightWebb Yates Engineers’ Elisa Sartori on why inaction on carbon emissions will have a high cost
The government’s 2050 net zero strategy, corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets and the 2025 Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) regulations on leased buildings are all working in sync to nudge those who own and occupy commercial buildings to think carefully about their decarbonisation roadmap.
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InsightA new urban industrial revolution
The emerging trend of industrial intensification is bringing distribution centres much closer to residential developments, and bringing new opportunities for developers, occupiers and communities.
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InsightGove wrong to bow to Nimbyism
Readers of this column will know that I was once housing secretary Michael Gove’s biggest fan.
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InsightKnight Frank’s five-year plan: interview with chair William Beardmore-Gray
The agency’s senior partner and chair William Beardmore-Gray sets out his intent to reshape the 127-year-old company, placing a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.
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InsightFORE Partnership’s Basil Demeroutis on the tyranny of incrementalism
What is holding our industry back from making the critical changes needed to decarbonise? The kind of durable, dramatic, systemic change that acknowledges the significant role we play as protagonists in the climate crisis and makes amends for our responsibility in creating it.
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InsightPerkins&Will’s Jo Wright on the meaning of fiduciary duty to best value
Designing a building to achieve ‘best value’ has never been more complicated.
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InsightHartnell Taylor Cook’s Richard Saunders on Bristol’s changing high street
The last few years have taken their toll on Britain’s high streets. The pandemic led many to become accustomed to online shopping, and with the current economic crisis, customers are prioritising cutting costs above hitting the shops. However, retail is reacting.
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InsightAre we there yet?
Pick any random word – ‘elbow’, for example – and repeat it often enough and it will start to sound weird and meaningless. The phenomenon is often noticed by young children (and weary parents) when questions get repeated, and repeated, and repeated, and repeated.
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InsightIndustrial & Logistics: Another level
There is a child-like quality to multi-level logistics schemes, with their boxy designs split over several levels or storeys.
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InsightGrainger’s Helen Gordon on why landlord bashing won’t fix the real problem of supply
Recently, several mainstream media channels have covered the health of the UK rental market and the plight of renters across the country. From rising rents to lack of stock, high demand, poor-quality homes and generally bad experiences, the image of landlords has taken a further bashing.
