Welcome to the Green Room: Boris needs to finally deliver Net Zero October 6, 2021 As Boris Johnson strides onto the stage at Tory Party Conference he’ll promise the earth – and talk about saving it. The environment is front and centre of British politics now and Boris has made no secret of his ambitions to go green. Last year, in typical style, the PM vowed that Britain could become [...]
Fuel prices going up, green energy getting cheap: now it’s time for a flexible energy grid October 6, 2021 The ongoing gas crisis has highlighted that our current energy system is unsustainable. As fuel prices have tripled in a year, our dependence on it seems more and more risky. It has also become clear that the unhappy history of geopolitics and fossil fuels – brought home by Putin withholding gas supplies into Europe over [...]
Interest in multi-million pound London homes picks up October 6, 2021 Home buyer interest in London’s market for homes listed at £2m and above has jumped 5.8 per cent. Interest in properties £10m and above rose 1.8 per cent in the third quarter, the Prime London Demand Index by estate agent Benham and Reeves showed. In the £2m and above market, Wandsworth in the city’s south-west [...]
Suburban and countryside rents outpace urban prices October 6, 2021 Asking rents in suburban and rural areas have soared over the course of the pandemic, compared to minimal growth in urban areas. Renters seeking homes further away from city centres had resulted in more residential areas jumping 11 per cent since the start of the Covid pandemic. Urban areas have marked a rise of just [...]
Grenfell should stand as a reminder that we have a long way to go on housing October 6, 2021 Housing is at the centre of today’s political conversation. The electorate is acutely aware of the housing crisis, and is demanding sincere policies to solve it. At the Conservative Party Conference this week, Michael Gove talked about raising living standards and making homes a safe and decent place to live in this country. Gove has [...]
Editorial: The City’s values endure in its buildings – old and new October 6, 2021 If we have learnt one thing from the last year, it’s that the City of London is perhaps a more fragile thing than some of us thought. Resilient, yes; able to bounce-back, that too. But nonetheless, as a community, as a place dripping with both history and innovation, we can never take it for granted [...]
Fuel prices going up, green energy getting cheap: now it’s time for a flexible energy grid – CityAM : CityAM October 6, 2021 The ongoing gas crisis has highlighted that our current energy system is unsustainable. As fuel prices have tripled in a year, our dependence on it seems more and more risky. It has also become clear that the unhappy history of geopolitics and fossil fuels – brought home by Putin withholding gas supplies into Europe over [...]
Interest in multi-million pound London homes picks up – CityAM : CityAM October 6, 2021 Home buyer interest in London’s market for homes listed at £2m and above has jumped 5.8 per cent. Interest in properties £10m and above rose 1.8 per cent in the third quarter, the Prime London Demand Index by estate agent Benham and Reeves showed. In the £2m and above market, Wandsworth in the city’s south-west [...]
UK fintechs attract record VC investment in the third quarter, outsprinting the total for 2020 October 5, 2021 Venture Capital (VC) investment in UK fintechs has reached an all-time high, as firms in the industry attracted $11.4bn in the first nine months of the year, and raked in the most quarterly funds in Q3 since records began. VCs injected a quarterly record of $4.9bn into British fintechs in the three months to the end of [...]
Boris Johnson to say in conference speech that ‘levelling up’ will ‘take pressure off’ London October 5, 2021 Boris Johnson will tomorrow say his agenda to “level up” poorer parts of the country will “take the pressure off parts of the overheating South East”. The Prime Minister will use his Conservative party conference speech to say “levelling up works for the whole country” in an attempt to quell fears that the government’s agenda [...]
