LinkedIn, June 2026. The job market is particularly tough today and with friends having been put on consultation or moving out of our industry as the economy flatlines, I have a lot of sympathy for them. It’s difficult to have any visibility on whether we are in a property cycle or whether today’s market…
Linkedin | 4th February 2026. The start of 2026 amongst investment agents and market pundits may flatter to deceive as deals which were delayed by the late budget complete. We expect the market will start to warm up once the usual calendar of industry events, holidays and hospitality provides some space for sales to…
MacLaren & Partners LLP is delighted to work with Carter Jonas in Cambridge on planning related matters Linkedin November 2025 Cambridge is a city of contrasts, historic yet forward-looking, local in character but global in reach. In our latest Planning & Development Insite article, Dominic Bryant, Head of Development in our Cambridge office, explores…
I always look forward to the Sunday morning drop in my inbox of the St Brides ‘ Bull and Bear series of topical property comment with their sprinkling of weekend sporting coverage coupled with the banter of the two old friends.👇This week it would seem particularly topical with supermarket sales benefitting from the resilience…
An early start to attend a breakfast seminar this morning hosted by Turnstone Estates and Concilio at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. ‘The Cambridge Manifesto for the next Government’. I was excited to attend, and a lovely early summer morning too; my thanks to Tim Deacon The panel were very engaging, and it was a…
This #weekendft covers the effect of rising mortgage rates on house building falls but barely mentions the catastrophic state of our planning system, which has led to at least one of my clients deciding that the risks of holding land and committing more money in pursuing SME house building business without clear Central Government…
John Plender, a financial journalist familiar to some in the commercial property market for his popular contributions to the industry’s principal data and intelligence platform #EstatesGazette over the decades, has written a brilliant summary and thought-provoking prognosis of the position central banks have played and the uncertainty of the direction of #monetarypolicy currently in…
A major regeneration of Worcester's city centre is set to go ahead after a bid by the City Council secured £17.9 million. The investment has been awarded from the Government's Future High Streets Fund, with the announcement made today (26 December 2020) by Communities Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick and Chancellor of the Exchequer,…
