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InsightResi sector faces up to big challenges
This year’s RESi360 conference brought together leading thinkers to debate the key issues facing the residential sector and to discuss what steps need to be taken to get the market moving again.
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InsightProperty Week’s RESI Trailblazers: the stars of the show
Property Week’s RESI Trailblazers celebrate the rising stars of the UK residential real estate sector. We outline the achievements of our winners – 12 outstanding professionals aged under 30.
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InsightSoho Housing’s Barbara Brownlee on London’s affordable housing struggles
London faces an affordable housing crisis: a fact that is well known, is historic and has remained unaffected by countless different housing and planning policies, grant regimes and badly-thought-through schemes.
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InsightPropertyCEO’s Ritchie Clapson on small-scale development being the perfect new business
The UK is not short of fresh business blood. More than 750,000 new companies were registered in the UK last year. Unfortunately, on average, around 20% of UK businesses fail during their first two years. This rises to 45% after five years. And 65% after 10 years.
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InsightBurnham Waters’ Ian Holloway on how retirement villages can help solve the housing crisis
Around 8.5 million people in England have unmet housing needs, according to a 2021 report by the National Housing Federation. House prices have increased as a result of the shortage, making it more challenging for many people to purchase a home and climb the housing ladder.
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InsightPinnacle Group’s Claire Kober on why BTR deserves more attention from Whitehall
The housing landscape is undergoing a rapid shift, and if the prime minister wants to stand any chance of meeting his housing target, much more attention must be paid to alternative development models, including build to rent (BTR).
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InsightRapleys Living appoints Mat Shenton to lead new homes department
Strategic property consultancy Rapleys has launched a new homes team within its Rapleys Living division and hired Mat Shenton from JLL to head up the project.
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InsightHousing delivery targets looking wildly optimistic
Editor: The prime minister’s pledge to meet a manifesto promise to build a million new homes (300,000 per year) during this parliament is another reminder of how this government is struggling to grapple with the politics of housebuilding.
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InsightOutlook for SME housebuilders ‘not looking terribly optimistic
Experts say it is unlikely smaller players will be able to increase market share unless government intervenes.
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InsightA mission to build affordable homes
The Diocese of Oxford’s David Mason tells Lewis Berrill how the charity is using land gifted to the Church of England following Henry VIII’s reign to tackle the housing crisis and deliver the homes people truly need.