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2015 Global Investor Sentiment Report
Posted on: 4 November 2014
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Over 600 global investors, from sovereign wealth to private equity firms across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East, provided their outlook at a global and regional level for 2015 and beyond.
Responsible business conduct in the land, construction, and real estate sector: A best practice toolkit
Posted on: 4 November 2014
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The consultation on the draft Toolkit, a joint initiative between the Global Compact and RICS to improve responsible business practices in the land, construction, and real estate industry, will run until 16 March 2015 and is open to all sector stakeholders. The Toolkit project’s key objectives are: to identify opportunities and challenges for the sector relating to the UN Global Compact’s issue areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, as well as broader UN goals; to engage UN Global Compact participants from the sector, as well as real estate users and stakeholders, to capture existing best practices and scale up sustainability initiatives; and to help companies in the sector and its downstream users across the property lifecycle to tackle sustainability issues and harness significant opportunities of a best practice Toolkit built on the Global Compact’s Ten Principles.  The final Toolkit will be launched at the end of June 2015.
International Property Measurement Standards Coalition
Posted on: 4 November 2014
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The International Property Measurement Standards Coalition (IPMSC). The coalition, formed in May 2013, is an international group of professional and not-for-profit organizations working together to develop and embed a single property measurement standard.
CIL: Is it delivering?
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This report considers whether the Community Infrastructure Levy has made the planning system fairer, faster, more certain and transparent.
Delivering change: Building homes where we need them
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This report, sponsored by L&Q and Barratt Developments PLC, sets out a range of responses and interventions city decision-makers can use to address the housing shortage in their areas.
After the hurricane: lessons learned and unlearned from the credit crunch
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This is the latest in a series of policy discussions from the Chartered Institute of Housing on the key issues facing housing over the next five years. In this essay the author considers what was anticipated and what was learned from the 2007-2008 credit crunch. Â He also asks what has changed in terms of how analysts look at economic policy, financial markets and the like, and whether this has implications for housing questions? Looking to next year, what does this mean for housing policy choices? The essay starts by summarising what actually happened and its chain of consequences.
China’s outbound boom: The rise of Chinese investment in global real estate
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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Chinese cash is surging into foreign properties, driven by economic forces and evolving business strategies in China and abroad. China, the world’s second-largest economy, is now the world’s third-largest source of outbound direct investment and has emerged as a major player in global real estate markets. According to data analyzed by Cushman &Wakefield, Chinese outbound real estate investment reached a total of about US$33.7 billion in the period from 2008 to June 2014, growing more than 200-fold during that time. What is driving this outbound surge? Where are Chinese property investors going, and how are they investing?
A revival of the private rental sector of the housing market?
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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This Working Paper studies ways to stimulate the private rental sector of the housing market and compares experiences with policies and reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic.
Westminster University Property Society
Posted on: 3 November 2014
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The newly established Westminster University Property Society is to hold its inaugural event on 6 November 2014 at 1.00-2.30pm. Entitled “the development process”, the event will feature Terry Martin, Development Manager from Land Securities. You can join the Group on Linkedin.
Central London Quarterly Report: 3rd quarter 2014
Posted on: 28 October 2014
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Take-up of office space in the Capital reached 4.6 m sq ft during the third quarter of 2014, the highest level since 2007, and 45% above the long-term average. The City, in particular, saw levels total over 3.0 m sq ft, a level not seen since 2000. According to Knight Frank’s Central London Quarterly report, the figures revealed that during the third quarter of 2014, the leasing and investment markets across Central London continued to show confident market conditions. Both markets saw an increase in activity, specifically the leasing market showing a particularly strong quarter.
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