Pension funds: in need of a better plan?
UK pension funds have always liked putting money into property, but they don’t invest anywhere near as much as you might think.
View ArticleHousing White Paper: well that was worth waiting for, wasn’t it?
The industry had dared to hope the housing white paper would announce meaningful measures to tackle the housing crisis, especially after all the delays.
View ArticleOutlook for UK commercial investment is mixed
The latest data on commercial property investment paints a decidedly mixed picture of the health of the market.
View ArticleSyndication deal volumes fall as investment market slows
The volume of syndicated commercial property loans in the UK and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) fell sharply in 2016, Dealogic data has revealed.
View ArticleSalary survey 2017: Pay packets take a hit post Brexit vote
Average salaries and bonuses have fallen sharply in the past year as the double whammy of a cooling market and the Brexit vote hit home, reveals the annual RICS and Macdonald & Company UK salary...
View ArticleNot so great expectations
We knew bonuses in the agency world were likely to be down this year in the wake of the EU referendum, which is why earlier this month we investigated the connection between the anticipated slump and...
View ArticleBigger is better for take-up
Industrial take-up in the final quarter of 2016 hit a record high of 13.9m sq ft, boosted by strong demand from online and discount retailers, figures from Gerald Eve’s Prime Logistics bulletin show.
View ArticleWork this way: Toronto office market
The Toronto skyline is not particularly easy on the eye. Arriving in the city, visitors are greeted by a giant wall of mirrored corporate skyscrapers, many of which are products of the city’s...
View ArticleChancellor must heed call on duty as well as business rates
The clamour of voices calling for urgent change to the business rates regime ahead of 1 April, when the new ratings list comes into effect, reached such a crescendo this week that it looks pretty...
View ArticleChancellor under pressure over business rate changes
The new draft rating list was published by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) back in September, but it was only this week that it blew up into a political storm as letters dropped through people’s...
View ArticleInstant results: Tim Rodber and Matt Dawson interview
The word ‘disruptor’ characterised the whole playing career of former England rugby international back row Tim Rodber.
View ArticleNew trailblazers: YN Property Awards Dinner
The 11th YN Property Awards Dinner saw the industry’s brightest and best gather to celebrate the most outstanding work from the past year and raise money for a worthy cause.
View ArticlePerspectives introduction - Mipim 2017
If there is an overriding theme to this edition of Perspectives it is connectivity. And for those of you reading this from a deckchair at Mipim, that doesn’t just mean the availability - or lack of...
View ArticleIrvine Sellar tribute: a wonderfully unreasonable man
The property world laughed at Irvine Sellar when, in 2000, he declared he was going to develop Europe’s tallest skyscraper above the decidedly down-at-heel London Bridge station
View ArticleThe towering achievement of an ‘unreasonable man’
Not many people can truly be described as legends. Irvine Sellar can. That is why so many property big hitters - past and present - have paid tribute to him this week following his shock death on Sunday.
View ArticleSoft cell: the Amsterdam prison being transformed into flexible workspace
Prisons are not designed to be the most welcoming of buildings - not when they are being used for their intended purpose, anyway. Once they have come to the end of their natural lives, it is another...
View ArticleBrexit is not about to dull London’s edge
Despite the threats posed by Brexit, London remains one of the most competitive global cities to do business in, according to Savills’ latest European Cities report.
View ArticleWith great power comes great responsibility
It’s that time of year again when half the industry is preparing to decamp to the south of France for the annual jamboree that is Mipim - and the other half is thanking its lucky stars it isn’t.
View ArticleSupreme Court rates ruling is only first step in right direction
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the owners of stripped-out office developments should not have to pay business rates was hailed by experts as a “victory for common sense” - but questions still...
View ArticlePrime London house prices to rise by 10% over next five years
After a tough 2016, house prices in prime central London are forecast to grow by 10.3% over the next five years, according to Cluttons’ residential market outlook report.
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