VIDEO | Leveraging existing assets in the fight against the housing crisis

What more can be done to make it easier and more viable to convert older buildings into much-needed homes? That was the question pondered recently by Crystal Jenkins, associate director at Overford, and Capital&Centric co-founder Tim Heatley.

There are obvious benefits to repurposing buildings to create homes, not least the carbon savings that come from retaining existing structures.

But too often these schemes are deemed too tricky and not profitable enough to take on, leaving the country littered with assets languishing in various states of disrepair while the housing crisis worsens.

Jenkins and Heatley discussed the often intangible value of adapted buildings, their increasingly important role in the regeneration of cities, and the levers that could be pulled to see more of them brought back into productive use.

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