Members' Insights
 

Keep up with the latest real estate insights, news and trends from The Landsite members.

 

1st November 2019
The Environmental bill - The view for Real estate?
The Environment Bill, laid before Parliament on 15 October 2019, has something for almost everyone. 
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1st November 2019
Why impact investing’s time is now
We are in a new world of responsibility and positive action - the “Blue Planet” effect, the rise of veganism as an environmental choice, the emergence of Extinction Rebellion as a serious force for change, calls for disinvestment from fossil fuels.  
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1st November 2019
Should I Buy Business Premises?
Posted by Fusion Finance
The majority of newer businesses do not have the resources required to buy their business premises, meaning that renting is the only logical option.
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1st November 2019
Your Reading List for Managing People in Property
Posted by deverellsmith
Whether you are an experienced manager or stepping into a leadership role for the first time, we all need a little bit of inspiration, motivation and a fresh perspective from time to time, which is why we’ve compiled a reading list to help you achieve just that. Don’t worry, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill, dry business literature – instead, these books are genuinely a good and entertaining read and well worth your time
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1st November 2019
Living Walls and Plants to support improved Mental Health
Posted by Scotscape
As the mental health epidemic sweeps through our society bringing people back to nature to subdue the effects of modern living has never been more important.
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1st November 2019
Living Wall for Team London Bridge and Better Bankside
Posted by Scotscape
This 76m2 living wall has been installed as part of a series of interventions that are part of the Borough High Street Low Emission Neighbourhood initiative led by Team London Bridge and Better Bankside, supported by the Mayor of London.
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1st November 2019
Planning House- 'Box Park' Planning Success
Posted by Planning House
Planning House are delighted to announce that they have secured planning approval for the creation of a ‘box park’ within an existing retail and leisure park, offering smaller retail units to the existing offer at Teesbay for our client Mason Partners.
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1st November 2019
How can my property top up my income in retirement?
David Forsdyke, Later Life Finance expert, explains why Equity Release is increasingly becoming part of retirement planningIn 2017 Opinium reported the average size of pension savings was just £28,000. I doubt it has improved much since then, and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that isn’t going to last long for the average person. So where is the rest of this ‘average’ person’s retirement income going to come from?
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1st November 2019
Foundation recruitment- Some of our Testimonials
Shaunagh and the team at Foundation Recruitment gained a full understanding of our business and the recruitment brief for the role. This ensured that only competently matched candidates were being sent to the interview stage of the recruitment process. This allowed my team to concentrate on core business activity with the knowledge that we would be interviewing pre-vetted candidates who had been duly matched for the role.
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1st November 2019
Hybrid Legal Limited - Hoot Marketing
Sue Wills and Niamh Cullen are the founders of Hoot Marketing, a specialist marketing agency which helps businesses communicate more effectively with brand story telling.We caught up with Sue to find out more about her journey in business so far. Here’s what she had to say:
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1st November 2019
Architecture and the digital world
Bouncing around the office and the industry there’s a plethora of acronyms and buzz words – VR (Virtual Reality), digital fabrication and the big one – BIM (Building Information Modelling), to name a few. So we wanted to share our take on digitalisation a
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1st November 2019
South Coast developer exit
South Coast developer exit.When a developer needs to exit their development finance, an agreed exit is a useful tool. It not only extends the term to sell the remaining units, it can quite often release funds to be used on other projects so that they are not constantly “stop-starting”
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