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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…
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...
Commissioning Bespoke: What can possibly go wrong?
The practicalities to consider when sourcing artisan craft and truly bespoke fittings and finishes...
How do you value a property that doesn’t exist?
Savills' Claire Reynolds answers the call to put a price on a lavish apartment on Oxford Street. The catch? It's on the shop-floor of the flagship John Lewis department store.
Abrahmsohn on 2018: Property, politics & more
Trevor Abrahmsohn has some early predictions on what next year might hold for the property market and life in general...
What to do when you don’t own ‘your’ property
Lawyers are reporting increasing instances of freeholders or leaseholders finding themselves in a pickle when mistakes or fraudulent activity have led to their properties being "owned" by someone else.