Property
Digital development: localism will force the property sector's hand
Submitted by John Williams on 22-08-2011
When reading through a marketing strategy paper entitled “Commercial Property Marketing Online” from 2003 I was struck by just how many of its key findings are not being implemented by property firms. As a Twitter user might say - #EpicFail.
Financial autonomy is the key to real local power
Submitted by Nicola Dykes on 27-05-2011
This week was the annual conference of the British Property Federation with speakers including Business Secretary Vince Cable and former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Member Professor David Blanchflower.
Facebook for NIMBYs
Submitted by John Williams on 21-03-2011
Streetlife is Facebook for NIMBYs....or at least this is what many property developers will be afraid of as they eye the launch of this new website aimed at uniting local communities into information-sharing, web-bound co-operatives.
Lunch is for wimps: disclosure and transparency in the quoted real estate sector
Submitted by Reg Hoare on 25-02-2011
Some years ago I hosted a series of lunches with City real estate sector analysts to discuss the quality of disclosure of the companies they analysed. This generosity was prompted by poor disclosure being an issue that regularly reared its ugly head in the press and amongst investors.
Has anyone told Gove about Localism?
Submitted by Jenny Lynch on 22-02-2011
Another week, another delay to the James Review of Capital Investment in Schools. When the review of school building was announced in July 2010, straight after the controversial cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future Programme, the plan was that the team would report to ministers just before the Spending Review and that the framewor
Office spaced
Submitted by John Williams on 28-01-2011
Our client Brookfield Green recently featured in an interesting piece in The Sunday Times on commercial retrofitting and the potential for growth in this relatively unheralded market.
How is the housing market going?
Submitted by John Williams on 27-01-2011
The new year has started with the usual raft of property surveys – and MHP has been speaking to the media in regards to its clients’ views for the year ahead.
Of particular note was the latest view of the market in the beginning of this New Year, and a positive story from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).
How local is local?
Submitted by Nicola Dykes on 24-01-2011
Last Monday the Government’s Localism Bill received its Second Reading in the House of Commons. In its own words, the aim of the Bill is to give greater control to councils and neighbourhoods over planning.
A busy week for Shapps
Submitted by Jenny Lynch on 06-01-2011
The first week back has been a busy one for Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP. Still beaming from being tipped as a future Prime Minister by the Daily Mail, Shapps has spent the last week telling us that house prices need to stabilise (or fall in real terms), encouraging us to get out there and build our own homes, and then he started picking fights with anyone standing in the way.
You've done your A levels, now for your owe levels
Submitted by Jonathan Atkins on 24-09-2010
The long term future of pensions and saving in general is looking bleak as new generations of newly qualified graduates try and enter the job market saddled with debt, with no hope of being in credit for many years.