All Leader articles

  • Women at work
    News

    Pay gaps: pay attention

    2024-04-18T00:00:00Z

    Gender pay gap figures provoke no end of disgruntlement when published each year. 

  • Staircase tax
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    Second-guessing second staircases

    2024-04-11T00:00:00Z

    This week, we take a closer look at the implications of new second-staircase rules for high-rise residential developments. 

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    Object lessons in retrofitting

    2024-04-04T08:36:00Z

    My regular commute to work includes a quarter-mile walk between rail and tube, along Newgate Street in the City of London near St Paul’s. 

  • London finance generic
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    Offset funding failure

    2024-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Few in business will be entirely shocked to learn that a levy imposed by government has been collected with little idea of how to spend it.

  • Mipim 2019
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    Mipim and the human factor

    2024-03-21T00:00:00Z

    One of the joys of visiting Mipim is not knowing quite who you’ll meet or what you might hear while you’re there.

  • Kings Cross
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    What goes down…

    2024-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Anyone feeling bleak about today’s depressed property values should take heart from this week’s cover star: Roger Madelin of British Land.

  • Marble Arch Marks and Spencer CGI
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    Retrospective clarity on retrofit

    2024-03-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Who inspects the inspectors?

    2024-02-29T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Workspace's The Frames, Shoreditch - breakout space
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    Hotel, office, home: It’s all in the mix

    2024-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Over the past few years Property Week has frequently cited the trend of ‘hotelification’ in prime office development.

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    What does the future hold for BTS?

    2024-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Head along any motorway in the UK and before long you’re bound to pass a vast warehouse development.

  • AI
    News

    Can AI cut it in property?

    2024-02-15T00:00:00Z

    This week we examine how artificial intelligence (AI) might help, hinder or transform the property sector.

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    Gove finally provides a soothing South Bank surprise

    2024-02-08T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Construction site
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    Ducking the deadly blows when contractors crash

    2024-02-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Michael Gove shutterstock_2229800903 LINGTREN
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    Why Gove’s proposed ground rent plan is nuts

    2024-01-25T00:00:00Z

    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. 

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    The Supreme Court’s carbon conundrum

    2024-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The notion that a single courtroom verdict might throw the entire planning system into chaos does provoke a cynical question: how would we tell?

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    There’s no profit in standing still

    2024-01-12T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • shutterstock/Min C. Chiu
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    2023 in review: words from the wise

    2023-12-14T09:37:00Z

    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.

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    COP28: time to pick up the pace

    2023-12-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • MMC home assembly
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    Life and death with modern methods

    2023-11-30T09:48:00Z

    The case for modern methods of construction (MMC) has long been described in the most polarised terms.

  • Jeremy Hunt Budget briefcase shutterstock_2275392711 Fred Duval
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    Forgotten but not gone: what’s not in the Autumn Statement

    2023-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Every Budget or Autumn Statement is notable for the measures not announced as much as those presented at the despatch box.