All Insight articles – Page 31
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InsightBentallGreenOak completes £1.433bn funding round
Real estate investment management advisor BentallGreenOak (BGO) has completed its third UK secured lending fund, with a total of £1.433bn in commitments from over 25 global institutional investors.
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InsightM Core acquires Solihull shopping centre
Privately held commercial property portfolio M Core has acquired Chelmsley Wood shopping centre in Solihull, one of the main retail centres in the West Midlands town.
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InsightCBRE’s Georgina Fraser and Richard Holberton on getting happy with hybrid
Many major corporates are facing the challenge of introducing or refining new working policies that must fulfil multiple objectives. These might include raising office occupancy, ensuring sufficient interpersonal contact and collaboration, and protecting company culture.
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InsightIWD 2023: Carter Jonas’s Aoife Hand on how we can make cities more inclusive
Public spaces are fundamental to our everyday lives. They offer an important place for sparking social interaction, freedom to express an opinion and bringing people together from different backgrounds, ages and cultures.
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InsightIWD 2023: Boyer’s Olivia Docker on how planning can address women’s safety fears
Recent tragic deaths of women walking home alone, notably Sarah Everard, have highlighted the need to address gender inequality in the city.
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InsightA wealth of opportunities
High returns from oil and gas have left many sovereign wealth funds flush with money to invest. So, asks Property Week, are they set for a spending spree in repriced European markets?
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InsightInternational Women’s Day: Confidence is key
As progress continues to diversify the male-dominated property industry, women discuss their experiences and explain how confidence and allyship are key for those looking to enter the sector.
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InsightCampus Living Villages’ Paddy Jackman on the changing demographic of international students
Say the word ‘student’ and for most people, a carefree, late teenage individual springs to mind
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InsightOxford Properties’ Joanne McNamara on how the government can help the UK become a life sciences leader
The newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is tasked with encouraging stronger growth, better jobs and bold new discoveries according to its Secretary of State, Michelle Donelan.
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InsightCredit Suisse’s Robert Rackind on how investors can protect values and capture growth
In recent years, the Covid-19 pandemic, shifting demographics, climate change, geopolitical ruptures and advances in technology have caused a paradigm shift in both the global economy and real estate.
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InsightWeWork’s Peter Greenspan on why office space needs to ‘earn the commute’
It’s no secret that the office market is experiencing a revolution. Between economic challenges, the repercussions of the pandemic and employees adjusting to their newfound flexibility, leaders are figuring out how to put their best foot forward for their business and bottom line.
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InsightProperty must embrace levelling up
It’s a testament to former prime minister Boris Johnson’s ability as a storyteller that his most abiding legacy will be the levelling up agenda, which, although less of a priority for Rishi Sunak’s government, is still visible.
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InsightGove’s cladding solution is brutal
I’ve always thought of housing secretary Michael Gove as one of the brightest men in politics. He is credited with radically reforming the Department of Education. He did great work at the Department of Justice, putting right many of his predecessor Chris Grayling’s catastrophic mistakes. And in his time at ...
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InsightWhat’s in store for the year ahead?
Last month, Freeths and Property Week brought together a panel of nine senior figures from across the industry to discuss what the next 12 months might have in store for the property sector and how developers and investors can prepare themselves to make the most of 2023 and beyond.
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InsightLet’s keep best features of Landlord & Tenant Act
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Anthony Ratcliffe’s well researched letter about abolishing the 1954 Landlord & Tenant Act.
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InsightIPSX’s Rupert Snuggs on where liquidity will come from
Where will liquidity come from? That is the big question for real estate in 2023, as investors wrestle with the pressure to refinance loans at higher than anticipated interest rates and face expensive bills to comply with sustainability regulations.
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InsightCadogan’s Kate Neale on nurturing London’s green revolution
The seeds have been sown for London’s biodiversity revolution, but it will be small clusters of ingenuity rather than grand master plans that drive it.
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InsightInterview with WIP’s Chithra Marsh: A focus on people
Chithra Marsh, new national chair of Women in Property, tells Property Week about her plans to make the sector more forward-thinking and the need to focus on social value as well as profit.
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InsightPotter Spaces’s Jason Rockett on how the small to mid-box sector can harness green power
Over the past few years, the requirements placed on industrial and logistics (I&L) warehouse-space providers to implement sustainability strategies have been immense. But what was once arguably regarded as a burden has developed into an opportunity.
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InsightDolphin Living’s Olivia Harris on the winter of discontent
Last month, roughly half a million workers went on strike, taking most train services in England offline and closing thousands of schools. This recent wave of economic uncertainty and subsequent workers’ action has reminded many of the ‘winter of discontent’, an infamously volatile period from 1978 to 1979.
