Yolande Barnes
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Social sustainability is the future
Last week, I mentioned to my 14-year-old daughter that I was writing this column.
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Recognise housing for what it is
My Twitter feed has seen a few skirmishes lately in a battle between two camps.
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Disruption has a profound impact
Disruption is such a 21st-century word. I’m not talking about stock market flash crashes or the Grayling effect on rail services, but something much bigger that can affect almost every aspect of our daily lives.
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Is the urban renaissance over?
Like many Londoners, I have been worrying about the possible effects of Brexit on our city.
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Savills spotlight: The World in London July 2012
London is one of the most, if not the most, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Over 35% of the residents of the whole Greater London were born abroad.
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Team effort needed to create institutional resi sector
There has been a dramatic shift in demand for housing in the last two decades.
- Markets
Databank: a land market divided
Like the housing market, the land market is beginning to show signs of a short-term “second slip”, but the big story in the sector is the polarisation of performance between different types of land and different locations
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Home Truths Yolande Barnes
Residential’s ’good feel’ of yesteryear has been crushed by austerity measures
- Markets
Buyers hamstrung by high deposits
Residential prices have bounced in recent months but on the back of very low volumes and very low — although rising — levels of mortgage borrowing. Demand is being stoked by investments by those with cash
- Markets
You’ve got to be bidding
A residential property shortage has given rise to a boom in auction sales
- Markets
A landmark for landlords
A continued decrease in owner-occupiers will benefit rental property investors.
- Markets
Regeneration gains
Residential property in regeneration areas consistently outperforms, says Yolande Barnes
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Brown will go down
Savills’ Yolande Barnes predicts a freefall in the value of brownfield land in 2008
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Neighbourhood botch
Housing schemes have too often lacked a sense of place. This needs to change.
- News
Credit crunch strikes
Urban land values set to fall as housebuilders’ confidence declines, says Yolande Barnes
- Markets
London looks to the east
The fate of the mayor’s housing policy could be decided east of the capital, says Yolande Barnes