Q&A: Five minutes with Sammie Steele, managing director of placemaking and regeneration at Places for People
Sammie Steele, managing director of placemaking and regeneration at Places for People, on how she got started in property, her top book and album recommendations and her number-one travel destination.
Identifying practical problems is vital in architectural design
Architects have a duty of care towards their clients to put commercial practicalities ahead of design niceties.
Q&A: Five minutes with Sue Winterbourne, corporate success director at property services firm Leaders Romans Group (LRG)
Sue Winterbourne, corporate success director at property services firm Leaders Romans Group (LRG), on how she got started in property, her best and worst purchases and her number-one travel destination.
Recognising risks of forfeiture
Local authorities have long played a key role in delivering regeneration projects across the UK. This activity has gone through stages. At points over the last 10 years, one in five shopping centres changing hands were acquired by local authorities (LAs), often enabling new commercial development.
Landlords and EV charging point operators need mutually fair leases
Electric vehicle (EV) charging points are appearing in retail parks, hospital car parks and all kinds of commercial premises across the country to help facilitate the transition to electric motoring, although some say the installation growth still needs to be faster.
Prepare for negligence claims
The Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections etc) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 were passed on 20 July – almost identically named to regulations passed in February 2023 but with an added ‘etc’.
Q&A: Five minutes with Alan Ryall, joint managing director at advisory firm Watling Real Estate
Alan Ryall, joint managing director at advisory firm Watling Real Estate, on how he got started in property, his top book and podcast picks, how he’d spend one million pounds and his number-one travel destination.
Prepare for economic crime laws
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, which is making its way through Parliament, is the latest in a range of measures by the government to clamp down on economic crime.