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.

The ‘build it and they will come’ mantra should be ringing in the ears of property funds given global trends

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...

A number of government policy moves, regardless of how well-intentioned, have created further problems that could hamper accommodation supply.

The final quarter of 2024 could be an opportune time for investors, but they should still exercise caution I spent ‘back to school’ week meeting...

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...

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 first few months of the new Labour government have been reassuring for the property industry, and indeed the house buyer, with major planning reforms on the way, and a streamlining of efforts to re-develop brownfield land. Most notably, the new Chancellor ruled out the possibility of rent controls in her first week in office.

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.