Adam Bray

The short term lets/self catering market is often used as a scapegoat for the housing shortage. Interesting research from EY disproves this notion. Entire home listings on Airbnb that are hosted for 90 nights or more per year account for just 0.17% of housing stock in the UK. #Purpose #Housing #HousingShortage

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This is a really thought-provoking article on recruiting 'unlike minds'. The diversity of experience and thought processes is not just valuable, it's indispensable for fostering creativity and innovation. Diverse teams, by their very nature, are key in steering clear of 'groupthink' and in crafting effective solutions. The article focuses on advertising and the creative industry. However, the approach should be the same for all organisations. Managing creative 'rebels' can be challenging, but the results are often more effective and impactful. Rikki Teml and I have very different views and experiences, which can cause frustration and tension as we try to understand each other's viewpoints. However, the last three years have been highly beneficial for both us and the clients we serve. We've implemented several successful programmes that would only have had half the impact without the diversity of thought our partnership brings. https://lnkd.in/e2GdE6pb

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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we’re only six months away from MIPIM 2025! 📢 I know what you’re thinking, we’ve barely said goodbye to the summer, why are you talking about an event that is still half a year away? But now is actually a great time to get a few things in place so that you can make the most out one of the most hectic, but valuable periods in the property calendar. ✍ Some things to consider: 👇 1️⃣ : Did you fully review MIPIM 2024? Did you achieve everything you set out to? What do you want to do more of in 2025? Who do you want to connect with? Knowing that will help you set goals and objectives for next year. 🎯 2️⃣ : Has your business ever partnered with a city delegation? It isn’t the right fit for everyone, but if you’re a first timer, it can be a great way to align yourself with other influential businesses and public sector leaders. Contact delegation organisers for more information on what they’ve done in previous years and details on sponsorship packages. 🤝 3️⃣ : Do you have a team in place to deliver your PR & comms strategy, so that you can amplify your presence before, during and after MIPIM? Do you need help to identify key events and stakeholders that you want to engage with? Will you have a pipeline of multi-channel content tailored to reach your target audiences? 📢 Active Profile is highly experienced in working with businesses right across the property sector to coordinate their MIPIM comms strategies. If you’d like to have a chat around how you could be maximising your comms in the build up to MIPIM 2025, feel free to get in touch 😊 #MIPIM #PR #marketing #events

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Top, top listen. 🎧

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This year the BPF is going to all three main party conferences, kicking off with the LibDems this week. Some reflections on the party from the past few days. 1. They’re certainly chipper, with every right to be after winning 72 seats. They’re not used to having such a presence. More than once I heard stories of people not realising they were talking to MPs as they don’t recognise them - with one MP telling me they don’t even yet all recognise each other! 2. The 2024 intake come from a diverse range of backgrounds - business, professional services, the army, as well as many having had council cabinet roles. They’re also socially and ethnically diverse - not something that could always have been said of the party. This bodes well for the quality of contribution they should be able to make. 3. Being the 3rd party (again) comes with extra funding and they will make use of that to bolster their research and policy support - also meaning scope for stakeholders to link in with specialised researchers and not just overworked parliamentary assistants. 4. This may well apply to the new intake across all parties but the MPs I spoke to all seemed very nice, normal and humble - willing to admit what they didn’t know and keen to learn. These haven’t always been notable characteristics of every politician. 5. There was interest in the BPF and particularly in what our members could offer in terms of housing and town centre regeneration. There’s appetite to direct investment locally but perhaps also some scepticism about the behaviour of some developers in the past in trying to bamboozle planners with dubious viability assessments. All in all the BPF made a couple of new parliamentary friends, and started building what I hope will be productive relationships with a few more MPs. A positive start - now time to catch up with the day job while planning for the biggie next week - Labour in Liverpool!

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#ICYMI Following the passing of the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act on Friday, BBC News reports on #servicecharges, featuring The Property Institute's Service Charge Index data. Andrew Bulmer also talked to the BBC about the missed opportunity for regulation in the Act: "Regulation...wouldn't just regulate technical performance in terms of transparency or publishing information. But it starts to regulate behaviours and when you regulate behaviours, you start to introduce trust in the relationship between the service provider and the customers." Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/edUUxceM

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