sustainable<\/strong>, just like their workplaces. They want e-bike parking and bike lanes, juice bars (never mind \u00a37 pints; a third of 18-24s don\u2019t drink), round-the-clock HIIT classes and ultra-fast WiFi at every turn.<\/p>\nThese will surely all be available in Labour\u2019s \u201cnext generation of new towns\u201d \u2013 and brownfield sites<\/strong> (previously developed land that\u2019s currently unused) offer the greatest opportunities. Knight Frank find that 41% of brownfield sites are in the green belt that surrounds London \u2013 in particular Buckinghamshire, which has 489 such sites, Tandridge and Guildford in Surrey, and Sevenoaks in Kent. Liverpool\u2019s<\/strong> and Manchester\u2019s<\/strong> green belts are also rich in brownfield sites, followed by the verdant fringes of Birmingham<\/strong>, South and West Yorkshire, and Bristol and Bath.<\/p>\nThere are also \u201cgrey belt<\/strong>\u201d sites to consider \u2013 a Labour-coined term they hope will catch on, referring to blots on the landscape such as old car parks and wasteland that lend themselves to infill residential or mixed-use schemes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Investing under Labour<\/h3>\n Investors will also be looking for the next Crossrail opportunity \u2013 though while rail nationalisation is a key pillar of Labour\u2019s plans, there is no clarity yet over whether the party will resurrect plans for the Northern leg of HS2<\/strong>, to bring much-needed transport infrastructure to the region.<\/p>\n\u201cWhere infrastructure leads, real estate follows<\/strong>,\u201d comments Paul Tostevin, director of Savills\u2019 World Research. \u201cEven in its early stages, a properly funded transport or energy project gives real estate developers and investors certainty\u2026 For current and potential occupiers, infrastructure investment represents a show of confidence in their area,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\nWhat is also clear is that the UK\u2019s tech hubs<\/strong> are the future for training and retaining young talent \u2013 something that Labour want to push by making it easier to build data centres, to help cement and promote the UK\u2019s status in the new world of Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\nFor investors, cities with pioneering universities<\/strong> are the place to look. Cambridge and Imperial College London aren\u2019t the only places fomenting AI whizzes. Sheffield is carving a niche in robotics, Leicester is establishing itself in space tech, and Brighton in digital media, gaming and digital health. Liverpool and Manchester both have thriving, growing Knowledge Quarters<\/strong>, where education, business and innovation meet.<\/p>\nTo retain the best people, they need to be near good quality homes<\/strong> – whether in the booming area of purpose-built, highly-amenitised student accommodation or privately rented households that people actually want to live in.<\/p>\n\u201cBusinesses want to be where brains congregate,\u201d adds Tostevin, emphasising the role that tech-pioneering universities play in anchoring and building thriving communities. Digital connectivity, green energy generation and sustainability projects all chime loudly with Labour\u2019s ambitions \u2013 and areas of innovation may yield just want investors are looking for.<\/p>\n
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Zoe Dare Hall is an award-winning freelance journalist who lives in London, has worked on national newspapers for 25+ years and specialised in writing about global property for the past 20. She covers all areas of UK and international property for the Financial Times, The Times and The Telegraph, delves into the lives of the super-rich for magazines including Telegraph Luxury, Sphere and The London Magazine, and writes about buy-to-let issues for the NRLA\u2019s Property magazine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget the much-touted L-word when it comes to property investment. It\u2019s more a case of speculation, speculation, speculation right now in these embryonic days of a new \u2013 if not New \u2013 Labour government. Location, though, will be pivotal in investors\u2019 decision-making when Starmer starts to put in practice his promise to build 300,000 new… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4216,"featured_media":6099631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,676,4,59],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100298,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100033\/revisions\/6100298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6099631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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