All Leader articles – Page 22
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InsightNot so great expectations
We knew bonuses in the agency world were likely to be down this year in the wake of the EU referendum, which is why earlier this month we investigated the connection between the anticipated slump and recent flurry of high-level people moves in our feature, Agents of Change.
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InsightRetail funds need to be reformed to heal Brexit scars
The scale of the redemptions from retail property funds in the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum may be less than first thought.
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InsightSheds and the race for space
Industrial and logistics was one of the worst-hit property sectors in the depths of the recession.
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InsightHousing White Paper: well that was worth waiting for, wasn’t it?
The industry had dared to hope the housing white paper would announce meaningful measures to tackle the housing crisis, especially after all the delays.
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InsightWhy so many agents are seeking pastures new
When the going gets tough, the tough get going… and a lot of senior agency figures are doing just that at the moment.
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InsightThe industry must unite to get the best Brexit deal
Brexit manifestos, it turns out, are like buses. Seven months on from the referendum, this week saw the launch of not one, not two, but three Brexit manifestos from property industry bodies.
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InsightWe want to be anarchy…
As weeks go, they don’t really get more momentous. First we had to digest Theresa May’s 12-point plan for exiting the EU, fittingly delivered in a Vivienne Westwood suit similar to the one worn by Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten. Anarchy in the UK, anyone?
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InsightFrom powerhouses to power councils
Is it just me or have we been transported back to the 1970s? It’s not just the relentless strike action, growing militancy among the masses or shifting political landscape (in which left is left and right is increasingly right); it’s the councils too.
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InsightThink 2016 was volatile? You ain’t seen nothing yet
Never has crystal ball gazing been so fiendishly difficult. The dense fog hanging over the political and economic landscape has made it nigh-on impossible to see ahead with any clarity, certainly not beyond three months when Article 50 will (presumably) have been triggered by Theresa May.
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InsightIt’s been a brutal year, but don’t look back in anger
I’ll be glad to see the back of 2016. It has been brutal. The tone was set early on by events that had nothing to do with property but foreshadowed the relentless barrage of shocks to come.
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InsightDinosaurs face extinction in new proptech age
Head still buried in the sand over the proptech threat? You’d better pull it out pronto.
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InsightBack Property Week’s campaign to Call Off Duty
When Philip Hammond failed to mention stamp duty in last week’s Autumn Statement, there were sighs of disappointment all round.
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Insight‘Spreadsheet Phil’ fails to excel in Autumn Statement
Well that was worth waiting for, wasn’t it? In his Autumn Statement, chancellor Philip Hammond announced the UK economy will still not be operating at a surplus by 2020, gave no hint that the regressive and damaging 3% stamp duty levy on second homes would be repealed and confirmed the ...
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InsightMere tinkering won’t solve the housing crisis
Can we stop referring to the housing crisis as a ‘crisis’? Clearly, the country suffers from a severe shortfall of new housing and prices continue to spiral upwards, becoming ever further out of reach of first-time buyers. But a crisis? I don’t think so.
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InsightFuture is bright for sheds but challenges lie in wait
It has been a broadly positive picture for the industrial and logistics market in 2016.
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InsightTech-tonic shift: new technology is transforming the retail experience
Many of the technologies currently being trialled and rolled out by retailers were unthinkable 10 years ago.
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InsightIt’s the end of the world as we know it...
America likes to do things bigger and better than everyone else - and so it goes with political shocks. Donald Trump’s victory this week makes the UK’s vote to leave the EU look like a little local difficulty in Europe’s backyard. Trump promised “Brexit plus plus plus” and he delivered. ...
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InsightUS election: Who will deliver the final blow in this dirtiest of fights?
I won’t be around for the next couple of weeks because I’m going on holiday. Guess where I’m going? I’m not sure how this happened, but I’ve cunningly decided to pick the week of the US presidential election to visit the West Coast.
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InsightBrace yourself for fight-or-flight response to Heathrow
Twenty-six years. That’s how long it took from conception to delivery of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 in 2008.
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InsightModernise or die? More like modernise or pay
It’s all very well Mark Farmer warning in his review of the UK construction labour model that the construction industry needs to “modernise or die” - but should he really be putting the onus on property developers to, in his own words, “bail it out”?
