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InsightCan BTR help solve the housing crisis?
Property Week and Yardi brought together a panel of experts from across the industry to discuss the role the build-to-rent sector could play in addressing the UK’s shortage of affordable homes.
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InsightBPF’s Melanie Leech on the consequences of leasehold reform
With a general election on the horizon this year, the Conservative and Labour parties are focusing on how to harness private capital to drive economic growth, and tackle huge social challenges such as the housing crisis and levelling up.
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InsightPinnacle’s Claire Kober on tackling homelessness through private and public sector collaboration
For too many families, 2023 was the year they became homeless. For too many councils, 2023 was the year they declared bankruptcy. It is impossible to fix one of these problems without fixing the other, and the private housing sector has a vital role to play to increase the amount ...
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InsightLRPM’s Letitia Randell on the importance of transparency in leasehold reforms
Imagine if you had paid an independent financial adviser only to find out they were being paid by others to push their products on you. You would be outraged at the conflict of interests. But this is what leaseholders are having to put up with every day.
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InsightRapleys’ Jonathan Harper on the impact of the long-awaited NPPF
Alongside the National Planning Policy Framework’s (NPPF’s) release, housing secretary Michael Gove announced that there would be consequences for councils who did not progress local plans and issued a directive to seven authorities who had not submitted a plan for examination since 2004. Whether this will translate into more authorities ...
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InsightProsperity Group greenlit for 146-home development in Birmingham
Residential developer and investor Prosperity Group has secured planning permission for the delivery of 146 new apartments in Birmingham’s Southside.
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InsightButterfield Mortgages’ Alpa Bhakta on why lenders are looking beyond prime central London resi
For many years, the appeal of owning a property in one of the world’s cultural and financial hotspots, coupled with the potential for substantial capital appreciation, has attracted investors from all over the world to the prime Central London (PCL) property market.
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InsightBrickflow’s Ian Humphreys on a framework to address the housing crisis
Following Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to build the ‘next generation’ of new towns and 1.5 million new homes as part of ‘a decade of renewal under Labour’, and ahead of what will be a key political battleground in the lead up to the election, Brickflow’s ‘Solving the UK’s ...
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InsightHousing: will the government wake up?
It’s no secret that housing and homelessness are at the top of many local authority (LA) agendas. The unprecedented spike in the use of temporary accommodation (TA), at a cost of £1.7bn last year, is driving a coach and horses through many local budgets.
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InsightA year in review: Residential
While it was a challenging year for housing, with housebuilders’ profits falling and the rental sector beset by government U-turns, later living got its own taskforce and PBSA performed well.