Q&A: Chrysalis on reshaping Liverpool
Founded in 2012, the Chrysalis Fund exists to provide finance to Merseyside development projects that will help regenerate the area but are unlikely to be able to secure bank funding.
View ArticleInterview: John Downes of Langtree Group
John Downes has gone back to his roots - literally.
View ArticleA tale of two cities - Manchester & Liverpool's office markets
The North West’s main office markets are experiencing contrasting fortunes at the moment.
View ArticleLiverpool retail: Mersey chic
Liverpool has for years lived in the shadow of its larger, investment-grabbing rival, Manchester.
View ArticleTo furnish or not to furnish?
New data from David Phillips reveals how optimal furnishing can drive higher rents for landlords and investors
View ArticleNorthshoring: who can resist the pull of the magnetic north?
We are still only in the first quarter of the year, but the North West office market may already have seen its most important letting of 2016.
View ArticleInterview: Mike Ingall of Allied London
Mike Ingall sees the world differently to everyone else.
View ArticleCold comforts in German housing crisis
Germany’s open-door policy has piled pressure on a housing market that is already at breaking point.
View ArticleCarbon emissions in the building sector
As many of us venture to Cannes, I thought it worth reflecting on a very different gathering in France that took place back in December.
View ArticleCelebrating 'property people' ahead of Mipim
By the end of next week, I will have spent the equivalent of 13 full weeks of this short time on Earth at Mipim, existing and sometimes thriving in the bubble and the circus of Cannes.
View ArticleWhy international buyers continue to celebrate central London
‘Kung Hei Fat Choi!’ Or, in English: ‘Wishing you good fortune and happiness’.
View ArticleDo Middle Eastern investors still look to London?
Back in 2014, I wrote an article here that posed the question: “Why is London the destination of choice for Middle Eastern investors?”
View ArticleEuropean market looks set for strong 2016
Last year’s exceptional growth in investment in European property is expected to continue well into this year.
View ArticleNew avenues for global investment
With prices continuing to escalate in certain cities around the world, BDO’s international real estate team has assessed where the industry is right now, and what opportunities investors should be...
View ArticleEconomic gridlock in Kent
Last summer’s cross-Channel chaos turned the M20 into a giant lorry park. Could it happen again?
View ArticleThe Jungle is being razed - where next for its residents?
It’s six in the evening in Calais and the smoke from a dozen campfires is rising lazily into the sky. Hundreds of tents and improvised shelters are visible and in the foreground a handful of men stare...
View ArticleBrexit and migrant crisis to be top of mind at Mipim
As the industry descends en masse to Cannes for Mipim (wash your mouth out with soap and water Private Eye for referring to it as a “booze and hooker fest”), two issues will be top of mind, if not the...
View ArticleInterview: L&Q on developing the Barking Riverside scheme
L&Q’s development director talks to PW about their £1.5bn east London regeneration scheme that will deliver 10,800 homes
View ArticleOsborne rains on property’s parade
It’s now been 262 days since Sir Howard Davies delivered his report into airport capacity in the South East and made a clear call for the government to back a new runway at Heathrow.
View ArticleThe future of work - CoreNet Global’s One Big Day
CoreNet Global’s One Big Day event, held earlier this month, was a welcome occasion for industry insiders to meet, chat and exchange ideas on the evolution of the modern workplace.
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