All articles by Richard Steer – Page 2
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Online
Uncertainty over referendum outcome is hurting building trade
Having suffered the worst recession in a generation, things were just returning to positive territory when suddenly the government decided to inject a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability back into the economy with an EU referendum.
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Markets
New form of working relationship will benefit both builder and client
Contractors are like farmers in many ways. They are a vital part of the supply chain but they do love a good moan.
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Professional
Investors should be seen as part of the solution, not the problem
In recent months, senior politicians of every hue have referred to UK developers and investors as part of the problem rather than a element of the solution when it comes to house prices, shortages and affordability.
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Professional
Government may be barking up the wrong tree with Right to Buy
It was all rather déjà vu.
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Professional
An imaginative solution to the housing shortage?
The sixties rock band The Who have recently been on tour. There was a clear irony in seeing the 71-year-old Roger Daltrey belt out their classic hit My Generation and sing his famous refrain, “hope I die before I get old”.
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Professional
Planning delays and bureaucracy are at the root of the housing crisis
Suddenly the housing portfolio - formerly the quiet backwater of political oblivion - has sprung into the headlines.
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Professional
Will we see some of the property sector’s problems solved in 2015?
At this time of the year it is the common custom to look back, to review, to place into context the trials and tribulations of the previous 12 months.
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Insight
Property is a high-status political issue — we should enter the debate
Property is going to be the big issue at the next election.
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Professional
A pod of one’s own: no room in the capital for hoteliers
The newly published edition of The Hospitality Digest would not be my first choice of holiday reading.
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Professional
HRH – high-rise hyperbole – a matter of economics versus aesthetics
HRH The Prince of Wales has not always been feted by those working in the creation of the built environment.
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Professional
Duplicity, double-dealing and deceit — signs of a recovering market
It is correctly argued that the construction and property sectors are strong indicators of where a country might be in any economic cycle.
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Professional
After the debt drought comes the skills shortage
There are occasions when a news story or headline makes you double-take in surprise: the Sun’s classic “Freddie Starr ate my hamster” springs to mind.
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Professional
U-turns leave Green Deal forecast a little blue
The £4.4bn construction and support services firm Carillion launched its annual sustainability report at the House of Commons in May.
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