All Legal & Professional articles – Page 19
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ProfessionalUse real-time data to plan cities
Today, real-time 3D data is increasingly becoming a defining tool in the way policymakers, urban designers and property developers plan for more resilient cities.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Clare Coe, co-founder of Madison Berkeley
Clare Coe, co-founder of Madison Berkeley, on how she got started in the property industry. She also shares her cultural tips, her number-one travel destination and the most ridiculous fact she knows.
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How can investors ensure their assets comply with ESG criteria?
In recent years, investors across sectors have increasingly focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.
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Offices can adopt the Airbnb model
The office sector over the last century has benefited from urbanisation, with increasing tenant demand pegged to limited supply. Ultimately, this has led to a near-constant robust market with short cyclical pull-backs.
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How can occupiers cut carbon across real estate’s long tail?
In the net zero transition, property teams must consider how they drive portfolio-wide energy efficiency. But where to focus? Undoubtedly, the initial priority for businesses with large estates will be the sites with the biggest energy bills.
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Concerns abound regarding First Homes scheme’s viability
Questions surround lack of a targeted focus and how scheme may affect other affordable housing products.
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The turnover rent conundrum
As retail troubles continue, many landlords are being asked to agree turnover rents by their tenants as one way to help share the pain.
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Landlords bemoan extension of commercial evictions ban
Concerns mount over further extension to March 2022 and introduction of binding arbitration scheme
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Balance key for carbon targets
As retail troubles continue, many landlords are being asked to agree turnover rents by their tenants as one way to help share the pain.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Ros Goode, principal and managing director at Avison Young
Ros Goode, principal and managing director, London, at Avison Young, on how she got started in property. She also shares her cultural tips, her worst purchase and what she would do with a million pounds.
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Q&A: Five minutes with Stefano D’Ambrosio, environmental and planning solicitor at Irwin Mitchell
Stefano D’Ambrosio, environmental and planning solicitor at Irwin Mitchell, on how he got started in property. He also shares his cultural tips, his worst purchase and what he would do with a million pounds.
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Prevention is key in cybersecurity
As the market comes under increasing pressure from cyber criminals, limiting the chances of an attack and coping with those that occur must be high on everybody’s agenda.
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Data analytics valuable for HAs
The data produced by housing associations (HAs) is valuable, but many of them find themselves unable to use it in a way that allows them to make better decisions. ‘Data chaos’, whereby data is siloed and unmanageable, is a common concern.
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Experts question ‘flaccid and pointless’ NPPF amendments
New planning policy changes criticised for focusing on beautiful buildings and mandatory design codes.
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What do amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for the industry?
The Building Safety Bill will now be subjected to the Public Bill Committee and Report stages on 9 September 2021 and 26 October 2021 respectively. The bill will be scrutinised, subjected to evidence from experts and interest groups from outside parliament and debated by MPs.
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How will reform of the pre-pack admin sale process affect businesses?
CVAs have monopolised industry headlines in the context of failing companies. However, in the meantime, the government has introduced reforms to the often-criticised process of a pre-pack administration sale to a connected party.
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Experience is key for restaurants
The restaurant of the future might be housed in a space-aged, floating mirror ball with a four-dimensional laser show rotating around a gravity field, with customers eating from chairs and tables hanging in multiple directions. It could also be much the same as current restaurants.
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How Pathways to Property is increasing industry diversity
Senior figures and Pathways alumni reveal the positive impact the initiative has had over the past nine years.
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Wellness must take centre stage in return to the office
Increased focus on staff wellbeing will help people relearn what it means to be together in the workplace.
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Wellbeing is no longer a ‘bolt-on’
Over the past year, health and wellbeing has been very much at the forefront of the public agenda. The London Plan, published in March, has references to the health and wellbeing of Londoners throughout, seeking to ensure that this sits at the forefront of planning decisions.
