A survey of real estate and IT professionals across a range of industries has revealed that better remote working technology is perceived to be twice as important as workplace testing.
Hong Kong recently introduced regulatory reforms, policies and incentives to drive growth and increase Hong Kong’s attractiveness as a fund domicile. The newly adopted Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (LPF) bill allows Hong Kong’s private equity firms to launch limited partnership funds. Already, there are signs that firms are taking advantage of the market to innovate.
Traditionally, the real estate industry has taken investment decisions on a case-by-case basis based on limited data, such as that from transactions, property owners, or type of investment, and that from personal networking. The insights produced in this case-by-case model easily become outdated in a constantly changing ecosystem.
The word ‘drone’ has become something of a standing joke with my colleagues, alongside ‘customer expectations’ and ‘storage’ as a sort of Buzzword Bingo for those poor souls who have heard me mention them in almost every meeting since 2015. I was an early adopter of mandating inclusion of drone delivery pads in our larger residential building specifications and had been giving all sorts of ‘Future of Residential’ presentations to real estate conferences from Australia to MIPIM for years so this was to be expected. One of the many areas of change in current UK planning policy is around how to safely accommodate the proliferation of drone and other robotic deliveries and their related infrastructure as our appetite for deliveries shows no sign of abating.
Three service providers – Accenture, Deloitte, and JLL – lead the market for workplace systems integrators, amidst a growing market, according to independent research firm Verdantix.
Nuveen Real Estate is to become the first major landlord to implement a pan-European office operating platform across its entire European office portfolio, worth cEUR7 billion.
The construction of Birmingham’s first smart-enabled building, Enterprise Wharf, is now underway at the Innovation Birmingham Campus.
HFD Group’s flagship 177 Bothwell Street will become the first development in Scotland – and among the first 70 in the world – to achieve the new independently-verified global gold standard for smart buildings.
Huq Industries, the footfall measurement expert, has launched a new product to help inform the key decisions that councils, BIDs and LEPs are facing now, regarding the future of our cities, towns and high streets, post lockdown. The zero-hardware measurement product comes to market at a time when councils are increasing their focus on tracking footfall across high-streets and town centres as part of the Re-opening High Streets Safely initiative from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
International legal and professional services firm, Ince, has launched the first integrated software solution combining the best know-your-customer (KYC) technology with expert legal advice and escalation in a single platform, for seamless client onboarding to meet anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.