All Residential articles – Page 4
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NewsResi high-rises face prosecution if they fail to register with regulator
Legal experts have warned that those responsible for the 12,500 high-risk residential properties in England face “major legal responsibilities and technical assessments” after the Health & Safety Executive issued a six-month deadline to register with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
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Political planning decisions cost economy £20bn
The impact of political and legislative decisions on housing development, combined with interventions by Natural England, could lead to a £20bn reduction in economic activity and £3bn less investment in affordable housing, according to the Home Builders Federation (HBF).
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Earls Court developer butts heads with council over affordable homes
Proposals to regenerate the 40-acre Earls Court site have come under fire from Labour-run Hammersmith and Fulham Council for failing to meet their affordable homes target, sparking a potential major planning row.
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Cadogan’s Kate Neale on nurturing London’s green revolution
The seeds have been sown for London’s biodiversity revolution, but it will be small clusters of ingenuity rather than grand master plans that drive it.
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Q&A: Hilltop founder on tough climate for SME developers
Paul Oberschneider discusses the impact of inflation and why the planning system is root cause of problems.
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Allsop rakes in £55m from sale of 184 lots at its first resi sale of 2023
Allsop raised £55m at its latest residential auction, with 184 lots going under the hammer at the online event on 16 February.
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Urbanite gets greenlight for £400m trio of Leeds resi towers
Developer Urbanite Living has been granted planning consent for a £400m development of three residential towers in Leeds on the former site of the Yorkshire Post newspaper.
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Pocket Living secures £100m to deliver 1,500 homes strategy
Housing developer Pocket Living has secured multi-site funding of up to £100m as part of its wider commitment to deliver 1,500 homes over the next five years.
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Dolphin Living’s Olivia Harris on the winter of discontent
Last month, roughly half a million workers went on strike, taking most train services in England offline and closing thousands of schools. This recent wave of economic uncertainty and subsequent workers’ action has reminded many of the ‘winter of discontent’, an infamously volatile period from 1978 to 1979.
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Videos
Residential real estate will recover quickest from a downturn, DWS tells PropCast
Jessica Hardman, head of European real estate portfolio management and UK real estate group at DWS, speaks to Montfort Real Estate’s Andrew Teacher about the asset manager’s confidence in UK living sectors as an investment class, reflects on lessons from the Great Financial Crisis, and adds nuance to the refurb ...
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Candour buys 200,000 sq ft Manchester tower development
Property developer and asset manager Candour has acquired a Manchester City centre mixed-use tower development from Aegon Property Income Fund for an undisclosed amount.
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Montagu Evans hires resi land specialist Thomas as partner
Planning and development consultancy Montagu Evans has recruited Richard Thomas as a partner to lead its land team, as the firm develops its offer in the housing arena.
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Purplebricks’ DIY model doesn’t work for us Brits
Purplebricks was the forerunner of DIY estate agency in the UK and since its highly publicised launch on AIM in 2016, the share price has gone from 100p, to 500p and now to a lowly 10p.
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Beds and sheds don’t belong together
On the surface, combining ‘beds and sheds’ seems like a quick fix for the government’s pledge to build more homes. With land in our cities growing ever more scarce, these multipurpose schemes appear, on the surface at least, to be able to maximise development potential and meet the needs of ...
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Q&A: LandAid event aims to tackle youth homelessness
Charity ambassador Gemma Copp talks about the return of SleepOut and her own homeless experience.
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Call to flip affordable homes viability model
Report presents public/private partnership model for half-market-rent homes
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M&G’s European Living Property Fund acquires €99.5m Dublin PRS scheme
M&G’s newly launched European Living Property Fund has made its second acquisition with the purchase of an asset in Eglinton Place, Dublin, for €99.5m (£87.6m).
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Hyde Group gets approval for 254-home Brookhill regeneration
Affordable homes provider Hyde Group’s proposed regeneration of the Brookhill Estate in Woolwich, south-east London, can go ahead after the Royal Borough of Greenwich planning committee approved the 254-home scheme.
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British Army partners with Taylor Wimpey to deliver 170 homes for service families
Soldiers and their families at the Imjin Barracks in Gloucestershire are set to receive a total of 176 modern and sustainable houses following a landmark purchase agreement.
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Administrators put £100m Brentford resi block up for sale
Administrators have put the £100m Parkview residential building in Brentford, West London, up for sale.
