All Leader articles – Page 8
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Property presses the play button
Freedom day wasn’t quite the ‘disaster day’ some had forecast, but it didn’t feel particularly liberating, did it? With Covid cases continuing to rise and some of the double-jabbed among them, it is little wonder that people remain anxious about returning to the office (or heading to the shops).
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Kick racism out of property
There was a sickening inevitability to it – so much so that I switched my phone and the TV off as soon as the game ended and I realised what was coming – but I did not think for a second that one of the idiots taking to social media ...
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The times they are a-changin’
Headlines blaring “unprecedented” this and “uncertain” that have dominated the news over the past year and a half.
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The holiday is now over
Amid all the confusion and chaos over planned foreign trips to countries designated as red, amber or green, we can say with certainty that there is one holiday that will no longer be happening.
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Industrial & logistics sector continues to boom
Industrial & logistics is one of the few sectors to have emerged strongly from the pandemic. Indeed, such has been the boom in demand for shed space, mainly from ecommerce retailers but also cold storage operators and data centres, that speculative development is booming, too.
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Fewer people, more space?
One of the nice things about going into the office during a pandemic is how much space you have to yourself.
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More rent misery for landlords
We all knew it was coming, but that did not make the government’s announcement on Monday that so-called Freedom Day would be delayed until 19 July any easier to stomach, not least because of the likely ramifications.
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Four years on from Grenfell
Who can forget the harrowing images of fire ravaging Grenfell Tower in the early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017, or the shocked incomprehension on the firefighters’ faces as they rushed towards the blaze, which having started as a seemingly innocuous kitchen fire on the fourth floor would spread so ...
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UK recovery gathers momentum
Happy days. The sun has been shining, the Covid death rate has hit zero for the first time since the pandemic began and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is forecasting that the UK economy will grow 7.2% in 2021, up from its prediction of 5.1% in March. ...
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The new normal
The world is opening up again and people are starting to get back into old routines.
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Another step towards a new normal
There may have been plenty of clouds in the sky this week, but the outlook is brighter than it has been for some time.
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RICS crisis is far from over
It never rains but it pours – or it does at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), anyway.
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Auction market has proved its resilience
Who would have guessed that more than a year after we were plunged into lockdown that the auction market would prove to be one of the most resilient parts of the property sector?
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Don’t be a climate dinosaur
Most people agree that urgent action is needed to address the climate crisis.
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Planning for better PDR
While people have been dreaming of living in large homes with gardens in the suburbs or countryside, the reality all too many have been waking up to is very different, especially if they live in a “home” delivered via permitted development rights (PDR).
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Industrial and logistics sector abuzz with activity
The industrial and logistics sector is abuzz with activity at the moment and many of the key issues are covered in this supplement.
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From the ESL to ESG
What a week. First, former US cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, prompting an outpouring of relief over the verdict. Then, we had the outrageous, but happily short-lived, proposals for a football European Super League (ESL), spearheaded by the so-called ‘big six’ UK football ...
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Retail must reinvent itself
After three months imprisoned within the same four walls, people in England were finally (partially) let loose from lockdown this week.
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Bubbly, bubbles and pay gaps
Plenty of people will be raising a glass of bubbly on Monday as we reach the first significant milestone on the roadmap out of lockdown. Some, however, will have bubbles of a different sort on their minds.