MIPIM VIDEO + GALLERY | Realistically delivering government housing targets

Intimate networking events, hard-hitting panel discussions with industry leaders, and high-energy activation sessions make up Place North’s diverse and engaging programme for the 2025 edition of the international property expo.

What will happen if planning can no longer be blamed for the lack of viability in housing schemes? Plus: Greater Manchester’s game of Cluedo and office-to-resi pivots

The construction firm’s managing director Paul Dodsworth chatted to Place North West about its expansion plans, thriving in a volatile market, and why the company is going to MIPIM 2025.

Tickets for Place North’s 2025 events are selling fast and, with new events launched this year, now is the time to check you aren’t missing out on anything – for the first time, we are also offering a 50% discount on tickets for local authorities and housing associations.

Stephanie Smith has joined the regeneration specialist in a newly created national role.

One hundred Place North delegates heading to Cannes in four weeks gathered for an inaugural preview dinner at hotel voco in Manchester.

Whisper it, but against a backdrop of economic doom and gloom, could the slow pace of the Northern property market’s lower prices be its secret power? Plus: Socially minded pension funds and dead cats.

Wain Homes, Ion Property Developments, Cityheart, Placefirst, and Cole Waterhouse are among the firms to have recently added their voices to our calls for a solution to the North’s viability crisis. You can join them.

There is only two weeks to go until Place Party Yorkshire returns to Leeds, an evening that promises maximum networking in a fun setting with live music and games – the perfect opportunity to get your social calendar up and running for the year ahead.

For 18 years, Place has championed the property industry. Leverage our unrivalled understanding of the sector and take advantage of our expertise in content creation and event production to amplify your company’s brand and win new work.

Billed as the ‘biggest transfer of power out of Westminster this century’, the white paper sets out how the government plans to put the destiny of England’s regions in their own hands. 

Mayors will be handed a suite of new powers to allow more decisions on planning, housing, and transport to be made locally, while district councils are to be scrapped as part of deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s plan to allow towns and cities outside London to “take back control”.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has outlined the route to 100% clean electricity generation by the end of the decade – the North stands ready to benefit from the strategy.

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

For a second consecutive year, the prolific regeneration company has teamed up with Place North to support and showcase its growing pipeline of transformational projects across the patch.

In the North you are never too far away from a vibrant town or city. The short distances between growth locations provides an unrivalled opportunity for collaboration and synergy. This essential panel for anyone working in the Northern property market discusses how to make the most of it by maximising efficiencies and ensuring we are […]

More than 20,000 new homes could be built off the back of the investment, which aims to make it easier for SME developers to access credit. 

This week on Scheming, the founder and managing director of Cert Property chats with Place North West about how the 2008 financial crash forced him down the development route, defying the market in Liverpool, and using creative industries as a driver for regeneration.

Placefirst and Place North will collaborate throughout 2025 to shine a light on the developer’s projects and bolster its mission to make a long-term difference in communities across the North.