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Forward Thinking: Exploring a novel way of funding an ultra high value home
Sara Maccallum and Andrew Wilmot-Smith explain why the forward funding structure - long familiar to commercial developers - could be worth consideration in a difficult prime resi market...
Millennials’ home ownership hopes dashed by a broken housing market
The latest report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies provides clear evidence that getting on the housing ladder has become a distant dream for many; much of the blame is laid on the growing gap between …
The bottom of the prime resi market in London may have passed six months ago
'They don’t ring a bell when sentiments change from a Bear to Bull market, but if they did, the sound would be deafening!'
The problem with using £psf to analyse development opportunities
Developers need to understand that we are in a very different market now, says Alexander Lewis...
Defining the key value drivers in property; why you shouldn’t mistake a good spec for a good scheme
The most valuable scheme to have ever sold in London had no services and a basic but elegant specification - but it offered space and scenery par excellence, says Alexander Lewis...
How contractors should respond to the Carillion collapse
With 30,000 businesses affected and a collective £1bn owed, the scale of this insolvency is extraordinary - but the same common sense responses still apply, says Michael Gallucci
New affordable housing rules ‘will sound the death knell for many SME developers’
A change to the rules on affordable housing for smaller sites would have a devastating effect on the very business the Government is trying to support, warns Adam Hesse, Director at Aston Mead Land & …
New housing can be affordable and homely if builders learn lessons from the car industry – and IKEA
If there was ever a time to introduce mass-produced affordable housing, surely that time is now...
‘A corner has been turned’: Why I think the London market is set for a successful year
Significant deals are being agreed as realism about the present combines with optimism about the future, writes James Bailey
The House Whisperer: How many agents really know how to get a deal across the line?
Trevor Abrahmsohn lifts the lid on the high-octane business of top-end dealmaking, explaining how he uses a potent mixture of psychotherapy, extreme cajoling and applied salesmanship to unpick even the t…
Three things that will shape the economy in 2018
A timely macro primer from Jonathan Michie, Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
Why property market gridlock could jam up the whole economy
Higher SDLT charges have resulted in vendors now outnumbering buyers by 10-1 in some parts, says Trevor Abrahmsohn, and the wider effects on the UK economy are becoming evident...