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  Construction PR’s Sarah Kauter on sustainable construction trends to look out for

  2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00By Sarah Kauter

  Ensuring your business is doing everything in its power to stay ahead of the latest industry trends has always been essential to success, and with the challenges faced by the industry throughout 2022 – including the cost-of-living crisis, extravagant energy costs and material shortages – this has never proved truer.

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  NEAT Developments’ Youssef Kadiri on stacked industrial

  2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00By Youssef Kadiri

  The latest version of the London Plan included some subtle but significant changes to industrial land policies, particularly Policy E7, which protected strategic industrial land from exploitation by housebuilders.

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  SAY Property Consulting’s Debra Yudolph on BTR and the cost-of-living crisis

  2023-02-03T07:00:00+00:00

  How should the build-to-rent sector respond to the cost-of-living crisis, and how will it shape future development?

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  Cain International’s Ellen Brunsberg on preparing for a year of confusion

  2023-02-02T00:00:00+00:00By Ellen Brunsberg

  I want to wish you all a ‘Happy! 2023?’. The unorthodox punctuation is deliberate: It shows my uncertainty and conviction. I am both enthusiastic and uncertain. Which reflects the year we’re about to enter: prepare for 2023 to be a year of confusion.

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  Hilltop Credit Partners’ Paul Oberschneider on how SMEs can adapt to the challenges of 2023

  2023-02-02T00:00:00+00:00By Paul Oberschnieder

  There are very few sectors of the UK economy sheltered from the impact of repeated interest hikes, and real estate is not one of them. Over the past 12 months, the market has moved from a zero-rate environment to one where the cost of capital has been gradually rising, affecting ...

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  FlexSA’s Jane Sartin on the role flexible workspaces can play in a recession

  2023-02-02T00:00:00+00:00By Jane Sartin

  Despite November’s apparent bounceback, we’re all gearing up for what would be the second recession in three years. Covid-19 has maybe left us more resilient, but still, we’ll need to be as prepared as possible if this one is as long and deep as some analysts are predicting.

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  Soho Estates’ Steve Norris on grade III listings

  2023-02-01T00:00:00+00:00By Steve Norris

  Designer and TV presenter Kevin McCloud is a legend. Which of us doesn’t watch Grand Designs just to see how much grief couples go through to build the house of their dreams?

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  Distrkt’s Camilla Topham on the not-so-dry January for hospitality

  2023-02-01T07:00:00+00:00By Camilla Topham

  The market has never felt harder to predict. Early in January on a Tuesday evening I visited a West End foodhall and was astounded by how busy it was.

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  Equities analyst Alastair Stewart on the adage of buying on the rumour, selling on the good

  2023-01-26T07:00:00+00:00By Alastair Stewart

  There’s an old stock market adage, dating to less assiduously policed times: buy on the rumour, sell on the news. At least when it comes to good rumours.

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  Ashby Capital’s Peter Ferrari on whether life sciences can throw a life line to London

  2023-01-25T07:00:00+00:00By Peter Ferrari

  After a turbulent second half of 2022, exemplified by shrinking investment volumes as buyers kept their powder dry amid elevated inflation, rising interest rates and geo-political uncertainty, predictions for 2023 were understandably gloomy.

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  Blend’s Roxana Mohammadian-Molina on the three property trends to watch for in 2023

  2023-01-23T07:00:00+00:00By Roxana Mohammadian-Molina

  We are undoubtably living through times of unprecedented economic uncertainty and financial volatility, the consequences of which are being felt most severely by many in the housing market. As 2023 gets under way, here’s my take on the three property trends to watch for in 2023.

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  BRiCS Development’s Hugo Reeve on solutions to help SMEs deliver

  2023-01-23T07:00:00+00:00By Hugo Reeve

  In the past few weeks, several of Britain’s big developers have put out warnings about slowing or scaling back activity this year, owing to challenging operating and regulatory conditions.

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