Housing, real estate and politics / Samuel Horti

Property Week • 25th October 2018

Brexit: will the regions press pause? | Property Week

If you are based in London, it is all too easy to have a blinkered view of Brexit, one that is not shared in other parts of the country...

Property Week • 5th October 2018

High hopes for budding new sector | Property Week

As growth curves go, they don’t get much more spectacular. Canadian cannabis company Tilray, headquartered in a city of fewer than 100,000 people on Vancouver Island...

Property Week • 18th November 2017

Toronto, city of Androids: How Google wants to transform the way we build cities | Property Week

Google has unveiled ambitious plans to transform Toronto into a smart city, complete with delivery robots and autonomous vehicles. Samuel Horti finds out how the plans are going down with the locals.

CityMetric • 5th May 2018

Inside PATH, the 30km network of walkways, tunnels and malls beneath Toronto | CityMetric

Since moving to Toronto nine months ago, I’ve found serendipity hard to come by. I’m only here for two years, so if I’m going out to eat, or grab a coffee, or meet a friend, I’ll look up endless lists ...

Property Week • 6th September 2018

How campus culture is changing the face of London offices | Property Week

“Are they really [social media] influencers?” is not a question a developer would have asked before deciding whether to let space to a potential occupier 15 years ago...

Property Week • 31st May 2018

Out of office: regional office outlook | Property Week

Strong regional office take-up has created a space shortage. You’d think it would prompt a development drive, but no. Why are regional cities running out...

Property Week • 28th March 2018

Flood of new supply puts desk rates under pressure | Property Week

An increase in the number of co-working operators has affected pricing and sparked fears that some firms will fail...

Property Week • 19th October 2017

New force emerges in council home building | Property Week

Council-owned development companies are springing up across the country in what a report published this week by The Smith Institute labelled “a quiet revolution”...

Property Week • 12th April 2018

Scottish markets – Regeneration and growth in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and beyond | Property Week

It is easy to be sceptical about Clyde Gateway. Under the regeneration programme, which is backed by a partnership between multiple local authorities and national government...

Property Week • 16th August 2018

Landlords up their game to help occupiers attract staff | Property Week

If you want to know why the needs of occupiers have changed in recent years, just look at what their staff are wearing. “When I first started working in the City 22 years ago, everyone wore a plain or pinstripe ...

Property Week • 12th April 2018

Interserve’s sale of The Haymarket could move Edinburgh project on | Property Week

Delayed £200m scheme is likely to progress with the existing development manager and a new partner...

Property Week • 23rd June 2017

What must be done to stop another Grenfell happening? | Property Week

As the causes of the fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington last week begin to become clearer, government bodies and the property industry are asking themselves some searching questions about how to prevent tragedies like this in future.

Property Week • 2nd June 2017

BTR sector set to benefit from billions of pounds worth of investment | Property Week

BTR sector set to benefit from billions of pounds worth of investment Some of the world’s largest real estate investors - including Mitsui Fudosan, Pimco and the Korean Investment Corporation (KIC) - are lining up to plough billions of pounds ...

Property Week • 16th February 2018

Timber offices: wood work | Property Week

There’s confident and then there’s Andrew Waugh. “I think timber will replace all other materials for construction, without a doubt,” proclaims the founder and director at Shoreditch-based Waugh Thistleton Architects (WTA).

Property Week • 19th January 2018

The rise of self-build | Property Week

Nearly four in every 10 homes in the developed world are built – or at least commissioned – by individuals rather than housebuilders. In Austria and Australia, a whopping 80% of all new homes are self-built. Yet, in the UK, ...

Property Week • 12th October 2017

Javid's speech points to a change of focus | Property Week

Communities secretary Sajid Javid’s speech at last week’s Conservative Party conference was far less scathing of developers than the one he made just one year ago. Last October, Javid told “big developers” to “release their stranglehold on supply… [and] stop ...

PoliticsHome.com • 6th March 2017

Ruth Cadbury: To truly address this crisis, we must build more social housing | House magazine

It’s been more than a hundred years since Ruth Cadbury’s ancestors built Bournville, a model village to house the workers of their now famous chocolate factory just outside Birmingham. But the shadow housing minister is still hoping to harness their ...

Property Week • 4th January 2018

Pooling set to unlock more PRS investment | Property Week

Five local authority pension funds in the Midlands clubbed together at the end of last year to invest £100m in Hearthstone’s new private rented sector (PRS) fund . The decision to join forces was prompted by plans to merge the ...

Property Week • 19th September 2017

Big interview: Tim Henman serves up property investments | Property Week

Tim Henman, new ambassador for property investment fund The Hideaways Club, tells Property Week about his first flat and his love of bricks and mortar.

Property Week • 19th September 2017

GPU picks Atlantic Square scheme in Glasgow | Property Week

The Government Property Unit (GPU) has selected the 300,000 sq ft Atlantic Square development in Glasgow for the first phase of its regional hub in the city as it nears the completion of its national relocation plan.