A high-street health check
When the government commissioned Mary ‘queen of shops’ Portas to undertake an independent review into the state of the British high street and the things that could be done to revive it, the news was...
View ArticleRetail: a decade of change and challenges
The retail sector has arguably experienced a greater rate of change in the past 10 years than any other sector. Yet despite the turbulence it has largely been a positive decade for UK retail.
View ArticleYou asked for answers – RESI didn’t disappoint
I am not going to lie. In the weeks immediately after the EU referendum, I was looking ahead to this week’s RESI in Wales with a degree of trepidation.
View ArticleBarwell's policy shift: the property industry reacts
At last week’s RESI Conference, housing minister Gavin Barwell made the most pro-rental speech from a government housing minister in recent memory.
View ArticleThe 10 for 10 gallery: Development of the Decade Award 2016 - the winners
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of our RESI conference, we launched a one-off award for the most outstanding residential projects of the last 10 years.
View ArticleChanging of the guard: Frogmore interview
For years, the business was referred to as Paul White’s Frogmore. Not any longer. “Jo runs the business now,” says the company’s irrepressible chairman, flanked by his successor as CEO, former COO, Jo...
View ArticleWill RICS have the teeth to tackle conflicts?
Ask a member of the public whether they would be happy if the estate agent selling their property was also being paid by the buyer and they’d be uneasy at the very least.
View ArticleIstanbul and Vancouver see steepest house price rises
Hong Kong remains the most expensive place in which to live, but it is Istanbul and Vancouver that have posted the sharpest house price growth of the past year, according to CBRE’s latest Global Living...
View ArticleGoing Dutch: will Amsterdam benefit from Brexit?
In the days following the Brexit vote, commentators were quick to talk up the possibility of companies in the UK upping sticks and moving to cities in Europe.
View ArticleNew Hines variety: Lars Huber interview
During an hour-long interview, Hines Europe co-head Lars Huber barely mentions offices - which is surprising given that Hines is one of the biggest global office developers of the past half century.
View ArticleNew kids on the investment block
Strange things are afoot in the office investment market. While deals haven’t dried up in the way many feared immediately after the EU referendum, activity has undoubtedly slowed, with the institutions...
View ArticlePDR: living in a box
How do you fancy the idea of living in a big shed? Me neither. However, as of October next year that is what many people up and down the country might start doing, because that’s when the government’s...
View ArticleAgent expansion: following the money
The tide of globalisation appears to have gone into reverse as the world’s economies take a protectionist turn, a trend exemplified by June’s Brexit vote and that will reach its apogee if Donald Trump...
View ArticleThe decline and fall of Hotel Fjord
How a gorgeously scenic nook of Montenegro also came to be home to a tragically derelict hotel.
View ArticleThink it's only the UK facing a national housing crisis? Think again
It wasn’t so long ago that senior industry figures were railing against the government for being fixated on stimulating demand in the housing market at the expense of supply.
View ArticleNYC’s foodie blues
Forget trivial issues like scarcity of affordable housing and fears that foreign companies are ‘buying up’ New York City.
View ArticleA house proud man: Dror Nagel interview
If you thought the UK government had done a lot to push home ownership in the past few years, it’s nothing compared with what’s been happening in Israel.
View ArticleDensifying London's estates could help ease housing crisis
Increasing the density of the capital’s housing estates could provide an extra 8,000 homes a year, according to new research.
View ArticleJavid talks tough on NIMBYs but industry is unconvinced
“Everyone agrees we need to build more homes, but too many of us object to them being built next to us. We’ve got to change that attitude.”
View ArticleTop dog: Nick Leslau interview
Sitting in his swanky offices on Cavendish Square, complete with Mini bonnet signed by the 2003 World Cup-winning rugby team, the chairman of Prestbury Investments, Nick Leslau, has just acquired the...
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