Professional Comment and Legal Views – Page 15
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InsightProptech needs to raise its game
The proptech sector has come a long way since I sat at my kitchen table to plot a course for Built-ID in 2016. Real estate businesses have taken giant steps forward in regard to not only digitising their legacy operations but digitalising their approach to their end users’ experience and ...
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OnlineA new generation of operators calls for better standards in workspace
The expected stampede to return to city centre offices may be corralled by a lack of suitable supply, according to Ryan Unsworth of developers Opus North.
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ProfessionalData centres as an asset class
Data centres as an infrastructure asset class are crucial for the digital economy and a huge investment opportunity. The complexity of operational issues is something those new to the sector may not anticipate and interest is likely to increase. We have identified key challenges post-pandemic to consider.
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InsightIt’s time to invest in facilities management
The real estate industry is under the spotlight as never before. The buildings we occupy are under constant scrutiny, not just for how they operate during a pandemic but also their capacity to emerge more efficient and more flexible than they were before, as well as increasingly for their net ...
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ProfessionalFlexibility is key for employees
After a year of successfully working from home, many companies are contemplating whether office life is necessary. After analysing employee satisfaction levels and preferences for remote work (full or hybrid model), many companies have decided that a more flexible model is most appropriate post-pandemic.
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ProfessionalArt can be the cherry on the post-pandemic office cake
Amid the return to the office, art can help your workplace stand out and enhance employee productivity.
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InsightProcrastination can be beneficial
It is a decade since the Tottenham riots took place, prompting the report by a task force led by Sir Stuart Lipton, which secured substantial public investment in the neglected, once-proud London borough.
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InsightSME housebuilders up against it
With their ability to be swift of foot and innovative in design, to lead the way in sustainable builds and access small, inner-city sites where others fear to tread, what’s not to like about SMEs?
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InsightConfidence must be tempered
We all know that confidence is a key component of life – how many crucial junctions have we all passed through where the decision to leap, or err on the side of caution, has led us to the exact life we are each living now?
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InsightIs it a lending race to the bottom?
In recent months, some leading real estate names, including Kennedy Wilson, Delancey, Tristan and Ares, have announced their intention to enter the European debt market, attracted by the risk-adjusted returns on offer and diversification benefits.
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ProfessionalHow 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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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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ProfessionalHow 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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ProfessionalOffices 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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InsightTime to unite on net zero agenda
The prime minister has set the UK a target to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035. This will be impossible to achieve without action by the property sector, given that the built environment is responsible for 43% of UK emissions.
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ProfessionalBalance 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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ProfessionalThe 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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ProfessionalLet’s make diversity a priority within property recruitment
Changes wrought by Covid present unique opportunity to make the industry more inclusive and welcoming
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InsightLevitt’ll set RICS change agenda
Five members of the RICS Governing Council (GC) are absorbing a 400-page report by Alison Levitt QC on the circumstances surrounding the sacking of four members of the institution’s management board in November 2019. This steering group will issue directions to the ruling body’s other 21 members.
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ProfessionalWhat 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.
