Foreword
Welcome to the fourth Real Estate Executive
Report
For this fourth edition of our Real Estate Executive Report we
are looking to the future. We are all painfully aware that the last
couple of years have been traumatic for the real estate industry.
Recent historic political upheaval has also added uncertainty, as
changes resulting from the general election begin to come through.
However, at Deloitte we want to start to look beyond these issues
and consider – what next for real estate? In this
edition, we therefore focus on the issues and themes that we expect
to the be shaping the industry once these macro issues have played
themselves out.
Sustainability and carbon impact is increasingly becoming an
established part of the business vernacular. The new Government has
also placed sustainability at the heart of its agenda and is making
moves to give the renewables sector the long term certainty to
attract significant investment. It appears the time is
