All Insight articles – Page 32
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InsightSentiment shifts in the I&L sector
Respondents to Property Week, Savills and Tritax Symmetry’s sixth Industrial and Logistics Census are generally more pessimistic than in previous years, but demand for decent, energy-efficient warehouse space remains strong.
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InsightPlanning a sustainable future
This week we learned who will shoulder the perhaps unenviable task of leading the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC). Architect Smith Mordak will take over from outgoing chief executive Julie Hirigoyen in June, at a time when the industry’s hunger for leadership in sustainability has never been more intense.
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InsightWhat’s ahead for the PBSA sector?
Earlier this month, Yardi and Property Week brought together a panel of purpose-built student accommodation experts to discuss the sector’s success in recent years, the impact that the cost-of-living crisis is having on students, how technology can enhance operations and what can be learned from the build-to-rent sector.
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InsightUp for the climate challenge
At Property Week’s recent Climate Crisis Summit, experts from across the industry debated whether the sector is still on course to achieve net zero in the face of economic headwinds.
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InsightPurplebricks’ DIY model doesn’t work for us Brits
Purplebricks was the forerunner of DIY estate agency in the UK and since its highly publicised launch on AIM in 2016, the share price has gone from 100p, to 500p and now to a lowly 10p.
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InsightBeds and sheds don’t belong together
On the surface, combining ‘beds and sheds’ seems like a quick fix for the government’s pledge to build more homes. With land in our cities growing ever more scarce, these multipurpose schemes appear, on the surface at least, to be able to maximise development potential and meet the needs of ...
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InsightShore Capital Markets’s Clive Black on when incapability rules
Even Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci, writer of the Whitehall TV farce The Thick Of It, would have struggled to have imagined the nature of the Truss-Kwarteng show.
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InsightKing’s Cross’s Anthea Harries on why the public realm is not just for Christmas
At last, we’ve made it through some of the darkest winter months, with Christmas trees and sparkly lights a distant memory, gym classes already quieter and just a handful of new year’s resolutions intact. At King’s Cross, we’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from another busy festive period and ...
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InsightPackaged Living’s Jonathon Ivory asks if single-family rental is about to have its day in the sun
Is it safe to come out yet? Since last autumn the real estate sector has been collectively hiding under the duvet covers waiting for the all-clear. Now that the industry is re-emerging, blinking into the light, it is worth taking a moment to reflect on the turbulence of the last ...
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InsightLeaders’ Emma Wells on why 2023 might be the right time to invest in BTL
Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time, and even current landlords, ask themselves whether it’s the right time to expand their portfolio if they can. So, given that annual price growth has been slowing since summer 2022, will 2023 be a good year to invest?
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InsightCapricorn’s Jeremy Law on overseas investment in the UK property market
Following a turbulent 2022, it is reassuring that an upward turn is already being evidenced this year, with many indications that we are getting back on track. But what of international interest in UK property?
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InsightSafe as houses?
The terrible aftermath of last week’s earthquake has been difficult to watch on our TV screens. The scale of the tragedy, which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in Turkey and Syria, is numbing. It is impossible to imagine how it feels to witness or experience such devastation first hand.
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InsightPushing the boundaries: interview with Avison Young principal and UK chair, Jo Davis
Avison Young UK is embarking on a major new strategy that it hopes will put it ahead of other advisory firms. Jo Davis, principal and UK executive chair at the business, tells Andy Hillier what it entails.
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InsightULI Europe’s Lisette van Doorn on how real estate investors can speed up decarbonisation
The real estate industry has a major role to play in limiting further global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2050.
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InsightUrban density and green spaces can work together
The government has set out its ambition for every household in England to live within a 15-minute walk of green space or water.
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InsightAbolish the Landlord and Tenant Act
In response to your article questioning whether it is time to serve notice on the Landlord and Tenant Act, in my opinion, yes it is.
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InsightLSL New Homes Financial Services’ Craig Hall on the Future Homes Standard 2025
In his November statement, chancellor Jeremy Hunt renewed the UK’s government’s focus on energy efficiency in the wake of soaring energy prices, triggered by the war in Ukraine and continued international pressure to meet green targets following COP 27.
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InsightHuckletree’s Gabriela Hersham on connectivity, connection and the future of the office
It’s almost three years since the start of the first Covid 19 lockdown and for many of us, particularly those of us used to working in an office, it’s clear that the way we work has changed forever.
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InsightThe Shopkeepers Campaign’s Vivienne King on the prospects for business rates reform
In April, the long-awaited business rates revaluation comes into force. Commercial occupiers will be paying rates based on the true value of their premises on 1 April 2021, instead of values from 1 April 2015.
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InsightRise of the robots
The year has started with one question firmly front of mind in the industrial and logistics (I&L) space: has the bubble finally burst or is the sector merely experiencing a temporary dip?
