EG brings you a few highlights from yesterday’s news, in case you missed the daily round-up
EMERGING TRENDS REPORT: Brexit causes ongoing concerns
London has the worst prospects for rental growth in 2018 among major European cities, according to PwC and Urban Land Institute’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2018 report.
TEN-MINUTE TOPICS: Part one – rent deposits: a good deed indeed
In a new monthly series giving readers the basics on core subjects, Sue Highmore explores how rent deposits operate and the pitfalls to be avoided when dealing with them
RETAIL SPECIAL: How to future-proof shopping centres
It is believed to take around 10 years from when a shopping centre is first considered to when it opens its doors. If you take the present wave of retail development across Europe – some 4.5m sq ft of which is due to open – at the time it was conceived the iPhone had only just hit the market.
COMMENT: London’s building more houses – but government must help
Over the past two decades, the story of London has been one of success in creating jobs, but failure in building homes. During that time, the number of jobs has risen by 40%, and the population has grown by 25% – but the number of homes has lagged behind, up just 15%, creating severe effects that Londoners know all too well.
NEWS: Call for Paddington Cube plans to be thrown out
Architecture conservation group Save Britain’s heritage told a High Court judge today that plans to build a 19-storey tower called “the Cube” opposite London’s Paddington Station should be rejected.
