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![Investor Briefing - the market has turned the page says Hamptons](/upload/images/24%2002%2027%20%20%2004.jpg)
Hamptons head of research Aneisha Beveridge says the early signs in 2024 suggest that the market has firmly turned the page. She...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Insight: What's the best property development strategy?](/upload/images/library/Investment(2)-400x310-min.jpeg)
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, 'what's the best property development strategy?'. Given that property development ranges...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Outer London - why it could be a boom town for 20 minute neighbourhoods](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
One of London's leading property services groups has explored the most amenity-rich and walkable communities in Outer London in a report...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Planning reform the biggest obstacle for resi development – claim](/upload/images/library/PlanningImage-400x310.jpg)
The existing planning system is the biggest obstacle to residential development, according to national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH). Its annual...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Commercial to resi – what are the advantages of office-to-resi conversions?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingHelp-400x310.jpg)
In this opinion piece, Reece Mennie from HJ Collection outlines the main benefits of office-to-residential conversions – which is set to...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – is office/retail to resi now more important than ever?](/upload/images/Locations/EmptyHighStreet400x310.jpg)
One of the biggest trends during the pandemic from a property development point of view has been a dramatic increase in...
10 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![The £800bn question: how resi developers can save the high street](/upload/images/Locations/EmptyHighStreet400x310.jpg)
In 2018, the total value of commercial property in the UK sat at over £880 billion, when the office market was at...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - how to pick the right property development project](/img/default/pit.png)
A small project in property development industry terms can be quite literally life-changing from a personal income point of view. But...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – will Covid make airspace development more or less likely?](/img/default/pit.png)
One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight - how can we repurpose retail assets with lasting relevance?](/img/default/pit.png)
One of the big questions that has become even more stark during the pandemic – which has devastated the already struggling...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Can the high street be saved by residential redevelopment?](/img/default/pit.png)
Like many other things, the high street developed over time as small residential settlements became towns, with more people coming to...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Cladding roundup – understanding and tackling the ongoing crisis](/img/default/pit.png)
In light of the controversy surrounding cladding as of late, DBRS Morningstar has released a commentary titled ‘UK Cladding: Much More...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Could 2021 be the year of the small indie developer?](/img/default/pit.png)
Over the last 10 months, we have seen a raft of changes to the planning rules in England. This has been...
26 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Development roundup – all-star shortlist for Thamesmead regeneration](/img/default/pit.png)
A ‘diverse and innovative’ group of architects and designers, with UK and international expertise, have made the shortlist to potentially become...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![New planning laws and social change could boost London town centres](/img/default/pit.png)
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward (KFH), an independent property services group based in London, recently explored the scale of opportunity for new...
01 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Building update: SME developers want to build more; ecolodge opens in Italy](/img/default/pit.png)
Research by TrustedLand and LandTech has revealed that more than half of the UK’s small and mid-sized property developers expect to...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Building onwards and upwards - what do investors need to know?](/img/default/pit.png)
With changes to the use class system and permitted development rights now in force, Christina Daniels and Marisia Beard of leading law firm...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Planting seeds - what does the planning system overhaul involve?](/img/default/pit.png)
We have seen over the past few months a real government impetus to regain lost ground, since the economic effects of...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Doing it differently – private developer transforms affordable housing](/img/default/pit.png)
Affordable housing is very often a thorny bone of contention. Arbitrary government targets are regularly missed and this part of the...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Q&A – should investors be building upwards?](/img/default/pit.png)
In his ‘Build, Build, Build’ speech in Dudley last month, Boris Johnson set out a number of radical planning reforms. This...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Midlands regeneration – new homes at Ilkeston Co-op conversion sell in weeks](/img/default/pit.png)
The latest multi-million pound residential development from Prosperity Developments – the company behind a recent scheme in Digbeth which was sold...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shop conversions ‘stubbornly low’ despite growing retail vacancy rates](/img/default/pit.png)
The number of retail properties approved for conversions to residential property has fallen 17% in the last year, from 453 in...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Allsop’s March auction attracts investors eager for London lots](/img/default/pit.png)
Allsop recorded a strong result at its March residential sale raising £60 million and achieving a success rate of 73%. Held at...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Allsop achieves record sale at its September auction](/img/default/pit.png)
Against a backdrop of weak post-summer auction results elsewhere in the UK, Allsop raised £71.3m and topped its residential September sales...