Insights & Reports

Putting Cambridge in the Productivity Premier League

Urban town planning is often a delicate balance between economic ambition, environmental concerns, and societal well-being but it can stumble due to its own overly complex bureaucracy.

Place, Planning, Productivity

It’s well-documented that productivity is flatlining across the UK.

Productivity drives output, output drives employment and employment drives property income

Commercial property returns are variable by geography. This dispersion is significantly influenced by the resilience and growth in income.

Impacting Productivity: A Developer’s Perspective

In the face of the UK’s productivity crisis, addressing the issue requires a multifaceted approach that goes beyond traditional economic measures. An often-overlooked factor is the social impact of developments on local communities.

Planning Reform and Productivity

Two quotes, half a century and a continent apart, explain why housebuilding has declined to 145,000 per year, less than half of the Government’s objective of 300,000 p.a.

Productivity Engine: Foreword from Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy

A society’s productivity, the key to its prosperity and living standards, reflects the outcome of decisions taken over many years or even decades. Britain’s flatlining productivity today reflects the disappearance of this long-term perspective.

Real estate can drive productivity by supporting regional centres of excellence

The United Kingdom, once celebrated for its industrial prowess and ingenuity, now confronts a dire economic reality marked by a persistent productivity crisis.

We must land on a strategy for our most precious resource

Making more efficient use of Britain’s most finite resource—land—is our best chance to enhance the country’s sluggish productivity. It’s as simple as that.

Cambridge Residential Rental Market Report, Spring 2024

Oxford Economics forecast a rapid decline in the bank rate this year and next, ending 2024 at 4% and 2025 at 3%.

Rural Outlook 2024 - Is it Time to Embrace a Land Use Framework?

Never before has land been subject to so many competing demands. Could it now be time to embrace the concept of a Land Use Framework? And where does that leave farming, now in a largely unsupported world?

Rural Outlook 2024 - Nutrient Neutrality Challenges: Key Takeaways for Landowners

18 months after it was first introduced, there are finally glimmers of hope for landowners and developers affected by Nutrient Neutrality.

Rural Outlook 2024 - Creating Nature Rich Solar Sites

With global agreement on the urgency of the climate crisis and time slipping away to reach our targets of a net zero power supply by 2035 and a net zero economy by 2050, the energy transition has never been more pressing. Solar farms have an important role to play in this transition.