Lem Bingley

As always on Budget day, there is much to be learned from the reams of paperwork revealed in the moments after the chancellor has sat down.

The annual Property Industry Clay Pigeon Shoot, held in aid of charity Chickenshed Theatre Trust, this year saw 16 teams of varying ability assemble at the Royal Berkshire Shooting School to try to blast whizzing ceramic saucers out of the sky.

I met recently with an agent who had been tasked with finding suitable sites for a client in the electric vehicle (EV) charging sector. The well-funded client was seeking sites close to busy roads with plenty of parking space and nearby ‘dwell time’ activities like retail, entertainment or hospitality.

At the best of times, construction contractors operate on wafer-thin margins. As the collapse last week of major contractor ISG demonstrated, we are not operating in the best of times.

The Phase 2 report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry offers no shortage of hard lessons for the property industry.

During the run-up to polling day, Labour’s strategy was often compared to carrying a Ming vase across a hard floor – a neat metaphor to explain a campaign fashioned almost entirely from caution.

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Tritax Big Box chief executive outlines the firm’s key strategies amid 2024’s economic uncertainties. 

The green rolling hills of the British countryside are a national treasure, but they are by no means natural. Think of unspoilt land and you might picture a patchwork of green fields divided by meandering hedgerows or dry-stone walls, home to placidly munching sheep or cows.

Gender pay gap figures provoke no end of disgruntlement when published each year.