The recent Dublin City Taskforce report, published at the end of October, recommended how multiple state and semi-state agencies can collaborate to effect a strategic overhaul of Dublin’s city centre. The role of private developers, investment funds, and institutions is equally important, and perhaps even more so, but for these to be enabled, state actors must evolve and facilitate quicker decision-making.
Those with shorter debt maturities face significant refinancing risks, while those with longer profiles are better positioned to ride out the storm. European real estate...
Hammerson, the London-listed retail property company and owner of Dundrum Town Centre, has had a very good week. To put this in context, good news...
Has England's property industry got (mostly) what it wanted? It may be two years since Boris Johnson left Downing Street, but his most enduring political...
The classic definition of core real estate means a high-quality asset in a good location with solid tenants. Yields are low but stable and income is far from risky – indeed core assets were valued for their resilience during economic downturns.
A number of REIT's posted results in recent days. We take a look at what insight we can derive from their performance in the opening half of the year.
The boom in electric vehicles is not going to go away. Push factors are the climate crisis and the cost of petrol. Pull factors are the rise in efficiency of electric cars and their falling prices. Demand is only going to go one way, but ensuring our built environment is ready to accommodate the boom is another matter.
While the "S" in ESG may be five to 10 years behind its environmental counterpart in terms of legislation and regulation, changing consumer attitudes are fuelling a surge of interest in delivering – and measuring – social value.
Planning regulations already mean building must be environmentally friendly, but a commercial industry has developed to capitalise on the need to be seen to be green.
As another UN Climate Change Conference, Cop 28, comes to a lacklustre close in Dubai, with key elements again watered down by vested interests, it is worth relating this back to property, and particularly the office sector.