17 Sep, 2020 Outlook for Alternatives By Zoe Miller Alternatives within the Real Estate sector have held up better than expected with good occupancy levels and strong institutional investor...
05 Aug, 2019 Slowly but surely, residential from retail By John Bosworth It has seemed inevitable for some time, but like many trends in planning it takes a while for a pattern to start to emerge. But take...
21 Dec, 2018 Bullish prediction on house prices from Halifax By Martin Smith Halifax Building Society states that limited supply will continue to drive house price growth, and is predicting between 2% and 4% for...
05 Dec, 2018 Construction industry continuing to show positive signs By Martin Smith The PMI index for the construction industry grew for the third month in a row in November, a complete reversal of the same period last...
20 Jul, 2018 National Infrastructure Assessment 2018 - developers need to take note By Martin Smith The National Infrastructure Commission has published its first Assessment of the country's long term needs. Not surprisingly, there are...
02 Jul, 2018 Longer Residential Tenancies - but not long enough? By Martin Smith James Brokenshire, the Communities Minister, is a very thoughtful and intelligent politician. We worked for the same law firm in the...
06 Mar, 2018 Landbanking??? By Martin Smith A slightly more nuanced analysis of the numbers Shelter have recently published on planning starts. None in the industry would deny that...
21 Feb, 2018 Housing Market - Gentle slowdown continues By Martin Smith A slew of recent data from the RICs and the big lenders all seems to point in the same direction: the housing market continues to slow...
01 Feb, 2018 Continuing Rising Demand for Housing Land By Martin Smith The data from Savills in this article confirms what I am sure all of working in this sector would say, that demand and activity continues...