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InsightLegal & General homes in on modular housebuilding
It got off to a slow start, but Legal & General’s modular housebuilding arm is now motoring ahead. Its CEO gives Property Week a tour of the factory and reveals how it will disrupt the way the industry works.
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Crunch time looms for Johnson
I’ve never been Boris Johnson’s greatest fan, but you do have to cut the guy some slack.
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As the office market bounces back, we must resist groupthink
Confidence has returned to the central London office market in the past two quarters as demand for workspace has bounced back. Take-up is ahead of the long-term average and vacancy rates are falling.
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Adapting assets are key to survival
Evolutionary science shows survival is synonymous with an ability to adapt to the environment. Sometimes haphazard, sometimes planned, sometimes copied, adaptation is the key to survival.
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How is digital technology driving up quality to reduce waste in retail construction?
The last couple of years have been extremely challenging for the UK retail construction market, with a toxic mix of COVID, post-Brexit recruitment drains and inflation putting pressure on an already squeezed industry.
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Inflation-busting outlets will be retail’s shining light amid cost-of-living crunch
With the cost of living having recently rocketed by its fastest rate in 30 years due to soaring energy prices and rising inflation, millions are braced for what is being widely foreshadowed as the most financially bleak period in 60 years.
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It’s great to see the City bouncing back
Last week’s Mipim in Cannes was buzzing, with the organisers hailing an attendance of 23,000 – just 15% down on 2019’s pre-pandemic turnout.
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What impact will Leasehold Reform Act have?
We anticipate that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 – now law but not yet in force – will be triggered and brought into force within the next six months. Effectively, this abolishes the ability to charge ground rents where developers are selling flats or houses on long leases.
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RICS guidance on Japanese knotweed is welcome news for surveyors
RICS has just released its long-awaited guidance for surveyors on Japanese knotweed, with the apparent intention to limit the effect it has on the property market.
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Regional hubs show how retail can reinvent itself
We know retail has to mix it up, but it does not have to reinvent the wheel. There are regional cities creating successful retail hubs that we can learn from. In various suburbs, clusters of independent retailers are performing well.
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Separating home from the office
It has been great to see the streets of London so much busier in recent weeks. Life is returning to the city’s office hubs and a more ‘normal’ way of working life is materialising.
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We must tackle the fuel poverty crisis
The importance of good-quality, affordable and well-insulated homes has never been more hotly debated, for residents of affordable housing as well as private owners. When Countryside is in discussion with its partners about their ambitions for estate regeneration, they will say warm, affordable homes are a top priority.
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Sadiq Khan must open door to builders
London mayor Sadiq Khan would rather sup with the devil than a developer, even though the latter might be able to help with a looming political liability: namely broken promises on affordable housing delivery.
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View from the top: Chris Bargate, group business director for B&Q
As B&Q opens a range of smaller-format stores, the DIY giant’s group business development director explains to Property Week the ethos behind the move and reveals how it plans to roll out the format.
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How will metaverse affect CRE?
June 1992: American writer Neal Stephenson publishes Snow Crash, a dystopian novel in which the term ‘metaverse’ is coined. Fast-forward 30 years and here we are, watching the metaverse erupt out of the imagination and evolve into a real-world concept.
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Two years on from the first lockdown, what have we learned?
Today marks the anniversary of Britain going into the first lockdown in 2020. It will also be our second National Day of Reflection.
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How to achieve affordable housing targets
Much has been said and written about the planning system needing widespread reforms, even more so as we await the next iteration of the NPPF.
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London – the view from Mipim
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, it was a welcome return to Mipim last week, where more than 20,000 attendees tackled some of the big issues for the property, real estate and corporate sectors.
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Lessons learned in two decades of Mipims
This is my 20th Mipim and it may be my last. Provence is still as beautiful: sunlit lavender bays and hypnotic azure sky. But everything else has changed. When I first saw the Croisette, my eldest son was in a baby-grow and I could cradle him in one arm.
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What next as restrictions on landlord remedies are lifted?
The much-anticipated Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill is progressing through the final stages of the legislative process and is expected to be enacted by the end of March.
