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Local Government Finance
- July 15, 2019
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Commentary
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Sustainable finance for local government must mean freedom to invest in commercial property to secure a financial return. Whether that investment is in area or outside is another matter. Either way, the National Audit Office’s forthcoming review is not going to seal the fate of what is an essential revenue stream for many councils.
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Local Authority Investment
- July 15, 2019
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: Articles, Local Government
In the summer 2019 edition of The Terrier, Brian reported in the findings of his survey into the increasingly controversial topic of local authority investment in commercial property. The research was triggered by an article he wrote in 2018 for the RICS Property Journal.
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Workplace Design And Productivity: Are They Inextricably Linked?
- July 13, 2019
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- Categories: Research, Workplace
The concept of productivity in the workplace is attracting great interest and quite rightly so. No longer is it solely in the domain of the academics, HR function or the architects and workplace strategists – we now find experts in real estate, facilities management, furniture supply, air conditioning systems and many more taking an active interest in what has become a major issue for business.
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Shared Property Services In The Public Sector: A Future Of Collaboration?
- July 13, 2019
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- Categories: Collaboration, Research
The days when public sector service providers worked alone or, worse, in competition with other providers, are thankfully no more. Whether this is because of a genuine collaborative spirit or because they recognise their survival depends on working with partners, the result is that shared services have increased across the public sector.
New legislative freedoms are also partly responsible for the rise of this model of service delivery, which encompasses joint ventures and corporate entities.
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Where Are Councils Investing And Why?
- July 13, 2019
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- Categories: Articles, Local Authority Investment
Local authorities are looking to commercial property investment to help plug their funding gap – and are taking a variety of different approaches, as recent research published in the RICS Property Journal has discovered.
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Local Asset Backed Vehicles – A success story or unproven concept?
- July 13, 2019
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- Categories: Joint Ventures, Research
With a growing interest in, and indeed a need for, effective partnership working between the public and private sectors, the RICS and Local Partnerships sponsored a research review of Local Asset Backed Vehicles (LABV). While such vehicles have existed for over a decade, there is a surprising absence of objective commentary on their achievements, the challenges to their creation and operation, and their potential future shape and direction in the context of the financial and economic environment.
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High Performing Property or not! – Public Sector Executive Mar-Apr 2009
- July 12, 2019
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- Categories: Articles, Asset Management
This article considers the challenges faced by the Office of Government Commerce in promoting and monitoring performance against the targets set out in the High Performing Property five year implementation plan.
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Local Authority Investment – Surely You Just Follow The Money?
- July 12, 2019
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- Categories: Articles, Local Authority Investment
Commercial property investment by local authorities outside their areas lives to tell another tale, despite revisions to the Prudential Code.
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Asset Management Forging A Civil Partnership
- July 10, 2019
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- Categories: Articles, Asset Management
From central and local government, change is being encouraged and expected – we see an urgency to consider appropriate Total Place themes, explore collaborative procurement, identify shared service opportunities, and of course deliver efficiencies of a scale never previously contemplated.
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Intelligent Clients Can Generate Bright Ideas – If We Work Together
- July 10, 2019
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- Categories: Articles, Asset Management
The role of the intelligent client is often misunderstood and suffers from under-investment. The public sector needs to share knowledge and experience more widely about how the manage contracts and relationships with the private sector.