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The major disruptor of retail is not the internet, but demographics

by Jonathan Davis | Dec 18, 2017 | Face to Face

Spencer Levy is the Head of Americas Research for CBRE, the property consultancy firm. A former real estate investment banker, he has been with CBRE for 10 years. Having trained as a lawyer he moved into business as soon as he could, taking the advice of his father, a...

Blazing a trail in build-to-rent

by Jonathan Davis | Dec 1, 2017 | Face to Face

Jonathon Ivory is managing director of Atlas Residential, a US-owned company that wants to build 10,000 build-to-rent units in the UK, with three sites already under construction. He explains the risks and challenges involved in blazing a trail in this burgeoning...

Be careful what you wish for: the unintended consequences of political intervention in the ground rent market

by Paul Winstanley | Sep 12, 2017 | Residential Investor

I, like most people, detest seeing people get ripped off, especially so in the residential property industry. While I am proud to be part of an industry who, through organisations such as the BPF and ULI, genuinely wants to raise standards, promote best practice and...

Housing is now at the top of the political agenda

by Adrian Pepper | Jul 26, 2017 | Political Insider

Six months ago, building new homes for the British was heralded as one of the great crusades of Theresa May’s Conservative government. A housing green paper published in February led on the theme of looking after Generation Rent, with ministers quietly acknowledging...

We should be able to control land prices more efficiently

by Jonathan Davis | Jun 30, 2017 | Face to Face

Professor Andrew Baum is one of the UK’s leading property academics, currently Visiting Professor of Management Practice at Oxford University’s Said Business School, responsible for developing the school’s real estate and real assets initiative. He is also chairman of...