VIDEO | What’s really going on in the residential market?

Nearly 20 years after launching our first website, we’re opening a new front door to Place – bringing our growing network of titles together and giving the North and Midlands an even bigger platform.

Since 1980, successive governments have introduced more than 60 initiatives to fix housing affordability, writes Jeremy Hinds of CivicScape. Yet 1.33m households remain on waiting lists, 176,000 children live in temporary accommodation, rents are rising and homes cost around eight times average earnings.

Sheffield is entering a new phase of growth, with rising prime rents, evolving occupier requirements, and a significant pipeline of regeneration and innovation-led opportunities. In this roundtable, hosted by Sheffield City Council, leaders from across the public and private sectors explore how the city is building on recent momentum to accelerate investment and delivery.

As the construction industry continues to face skills shortages, stronger collaboration and a two-way flow between education and industry is more important than ever. A roundtable hosted by Leeds College of Building explored how colleges, employers, and government can best work together to build the workforce needed for future growth. 

The last 10 years have brought us wars, political uncertainty at home and abroad, Brexit, and a pandemic. Panellists at Place North’s Wednesday breakfast conference discussed how the sector has delivered amid the chaos and how it will continue to do so in the future. 

Jolly Harbour may not exist today, but the fictional town conjured up by those attending Place North’s Tuesday breakfast event served as a great testbed for conversations about placemaking best practice.

Leaving MIPIM behind for another year, the focus now moves on to how those conversations in Cannes translate into real projects back home, says Steven Gregory, area director of Morgan Sindall Construction.

With the dust just beginning to settle on MIPIM 2026, managing partner Dino Moutsopoulos joined deputy editor Dan Whelan to look back on a busy week of networking events, interactive panels, and front-line news and ponder what next year has in store for the North of England and Scotland when their delegations return to Cannes.

This panel session explored how the North’s combination of land, skills, and collaboration gives it a compelling edge in the I&L sector, despite persistent challenges.