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  Tech must go direct to end user

  2020-02-14T00:00:00+00:00By Angelica Donati

  In the third quarter of last year, global venture investments into proptech reached $24.6bn, surpassing the most optimistic estimates for the year and putting the industry on track to comfortably exceed the $30bn full-year mark.

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  Why leasehold reform is essential

  2020-02-14T00:00:00+00:00By Arshad Bhatti

  With a new government comes a new agenda, but some of the same arguments around leasehold reform continue to rumble on. This is perhaps to be expected, given that the UK uses a system of home ownership that is still rooted in medieval history.

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  Time for big players to do their bit

  2020-02-13T16:24:00+00:00By Hugo Llewelyn

  Getting the UK property industry to deliver and measure true social impact, as a cogent part of their wider stakeholder strategies, is proving much more difficult than Property Week and Newcore had envisaged when we launched the Pro Bono Challenge at RESI last September.

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  London estate agents make hay

  2020-02-13T00:00:00+00:00By Alastair Stewart

  “We’re now going to sealed bids on houses that we couldn’t get a single viewing for a few months ago.” This view from a south London estate agent is no flash in the pan. After many months in the deep freeze, the capital’s housing market seems to have thawed.

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  We must ensure seniors have access to safe and appropriate care

  2020-02-07T17:26:00+00:00By Jitesh Patel

  The news that we will see a 70,000 shortfall in seniors’ homes over the next decade is a timely reminder that ‘generation rent’ is not the only age group facing a housing crisis.

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  The beating heart of communities

  2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00By Michela Hancock

  Until recently, one of my greatest regrets at work was that I hadn’t spent a significant amount of uninterrupted time with Greystar’s operations – including the property management, maintenance, front-of-house concierge and lettings teams – on the ground at one of our buildings.

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  Time to address the climate issue

  2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00By Richard Rees

  As 2019 fades from view and we look back at it with an element of hindsight, I don’t think history is going to remember it as the year Brexit became a certainty, or even for England finally winning the Cricket World Cup – but as the year that the climate ...

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  No. 10: who stays and who goes?

  2020-02-06T00:00:00+00:00By Steve Norris

  When Stephen Barclay, the secretary of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union, resigned at 23:01 hours on 31 January as his department wound itself up, he started the reshuffle Boris made clear would follow once we had formally left the EU.

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  Retail will always have a place

  2020-02-06T00:00:00+00:00By Allan Lockhart

  The end of 2019 ushered in a calmer UK political climate after the Conservatives’ decisive general election victory.

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  We must act now to save retail

  2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00By Dr Clive Black

  The plight of the shopping centre in the UK is worrying… very worrying. Today, many if not all of our existing shopping centres simply would not be built. There is turmoil in this silo of the real estate market as net asset values, which equity capital markets have not believed ...

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  Housebuilders have much to do

  2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00By David Hershkorn

  Most people have rightly acknowledged that global warming is a very real problem. It does not recognise international borders or economic wealth; it affects us all and we all have a responsibility to address it.

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  Designing for a net-zero future

  2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00By Félicie Krikler

  London mayoral candidate Rory Stewart has faced a backlash after suggesting that trees should be planted on Regent Street. He tweeted that it was a “disgrace” that the historic street lacked greenery “crucial for the environment – carbon, air quality – but also for mental health and wellbeing”.

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