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New arbitration process on COVID rent Arrears

The Government announced yesterday (9 November) that it is introducing new laws and a revised Code of Practice to deal with the remaining commercial rent debts accrued because of the pandemic. As before, this encourages tenants who can pay their rent to pay their rent in full. However, tenants who

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You can’t “out tech” real estate

Zillow started as a real estate listing marketplace in the USA, much like Rightmove in the UK, but quickly morphed into what is termed an iBuyer. Think of webuyanycar.com, but for houses. Using “very sophisticated data and analytics models”, they created a tool called Zestimate, which worked out what price

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Back to the Future

An excellent article from William Highman and Metro Bank – Full article here A return to traditional ‘village’ communities could transform the High Street over the next two decades. William Higham, Next Big Thing, October 2021 1. Putting the ‘local’ in tomorrow’s local high streets The importance of ‘community’ is