What goes down…
2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
Anyone feeling bleak about today’s depressed property values should take heart from this week’s cover star: Roger Madelin of British Land.
Retrospective clarity on retrofit
2024-03-07T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
As we all know, Marks & Spencer’s flagship Marble Arch store is at the centre of a long-running planning dispute, but it also happens to be slap bang in the middle of the City of Westminster.
Who inspects the inspectors?
2024-02-29T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
As we warned last week, a “massive slowdown” in the residential sector is looming as the deadline for building control surveyors to register with the Building Safety Regulator draws closer.
Hotel, office, home: It’s all in the mix
2024-02-22T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
Over the past few years Property Week has frequently cited the trend of ‘hotelification’ in prime office development.
Can AI cut it in property?
2024-02-15T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
This week we examine how artificial intelligence (AI) might help, hinder or transform the property sector.
What does the future hold for BTS?
2024-02-15T00:00:00+00:00By Andy Hillier
Head along any motorway in the UK and before long you’re bound to pass a vast warehouse development.
Gove finally provides a soothing South Bank surprise
2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
The long-awaited and much-delayed decision on the future of London’s South Bank will have triggered gasps of relief as much as surprise, given how many must surely have been holding their breath for the outcome.
Ducking the deadly blows when contractors crash
2024-02-01T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
Given all the challenges and setbacks a developer must survive before the first shovel goes into the ground on a new project, it must feel like a particularly brutal punch in the face when a contractor suddenly collapses before completing the work.
Why Gove’s proposed ground rent plan is nuts
2024-01-25T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
The phrase ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’ doesn’t quite measure up when it comes to the overblown solutions that housing secretary Michael Gove is weighing up to fix problems with residential ground rent.
The Supreme Court’s carbon conundrum
2024-01-18T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
The notion that a single courtroom verdict might throw the entire planning system into chaos does provoke a cynical question: how would we tell?
There’s no profit in standing still
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
As you may have noticed, during the holiday break we’ve had the decorators in to update our print magazine’s look and feel. I hope you like the result, which is part of Property Week’s never-ending effort to improve the service we provide.
2023 in review: words from the wise
2023-12-14T09:37:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
It’s that time of year when thoughts turn to the months gone by. Rather than attempt to come up with my own sage observations, I have instead purloined the thoughts of the industry’s finest, all of whom were interviewed by Property Week over the past year.
COP28: time to pick up the pace
2023-12-07T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
This week’s COP28 summit provided a suitable point at which to assess the UK’s progress in decarbonising its built environment, with reports from RICS and UKGBC, among others, providing clear lines in the sand for the industry.
Life and death with modern methods
2023-11-30T09:48:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
The case for modern methods of construction (MMC) has long been described in the most polarised terms.
Forgotten but not gone: what’s not in the Autumn Statement
2023-11-23T00:00:00+00:00By Lem Bingley
Every Budget or Autumn Statement is notable for the measures not announced as much as those presented at the despatch box.