This can be about the value of a city, the importance of offices, but also how value can be preserved by paying attention to sustainability. In addition to conversations, various Insights can also be listened to. All podcasts are in Dutch.
Podcast - Sweet Spot Randstad (Insight)
22/09/2021
In the podcast series 'The Value Of...', several Cushman & Wakefield commercial real estate experts discuss what they value.
Read more - Value Of A City
Insights
Having a place to live is a right for everyone. Preferably in a nice place in an inclusive environment with room for personal development and perspective.
Jos Hesselink • 16/12/2021
Insights • Technology
A fully digital city is like working completely from home due to corona: all spontaneity and creativity disappear like snow in the sun. Living in the city only gives energy when the city is bustling with activity and at the same time provides peace of mind when you need it.
Jos Hesselink • 18/11/2021
Insights • Sustainability / ESG
Climate risk is now a reality which will impact current and future value of property. When we talk about climate risk, we invariably mean one of two things – the transitional risk of moving towards a low carbon economy or the physical risks associated with climate change.
Jos Hesselink • 29/09/2021
Insights
The City That Moves Stays Healthy
We move too little. Both the city and its inhabitants. While the population density in the cities is growing.
Jos Hesselink • 27/07/2021
Insights
The Kalverstraat as the aorta of the new business district that is developing in the center of Amsterdam. Where old business comes back in new form, because the businessman and woman is back in town!
Jos Hesselink • 17/06/2021
Insights
Today, we can better see urban policy makers as 'city profilers'. They must make the right connections to arrive at future-proof solutions for our cities in the coming decades.
Frank van der Sluys • 27/05/2021
Insights • Sustainability / ESG
COVID-19 shows our vulnerability. At the same time, it gives us insight into how we should improve the quality of life in our cities in a future-proof way. Anticipating population growth, climate change, health and our continuing need to live, work and stay in cities.
Jos Hesselink • 22/04/2021
Insights
The initial cause of this has everything to do with supply and demand. For years there has been a chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Randstad, the economic heart of the Netherlands. This applies to both starters in the buyers' market and middle incomes in the tenant market.
Jos Hesselink • 25/03/2021
Insights • Sustainability / ESG
City streets should not have cars
The arrival of the car has radically changed the spatial development of our cities and the infrastructure in the Netherlands.
In order to bring cars and freight traffic safely and quickly from A to B, highways and motorways, bridges and viaducts, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings were necessary.
Jos Hesselink • 25/02/2021
In order to bring cars and freight traffic safely and quickly from A to B, highways and motorways, bridges and viaducts, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings were necessary.
Insights • Sustainability / ESG
A city full of green is not valued enough
A green environment or fresh air is not often a reason to live in a city, rather the opposite. It is often a reason to escape the city at the weekend and visit nature, or even to live elsewhere.
Jos Hesselink • 04/02/2021
Insights
The value of the city lies in its future-proofness. In order to be able to anticipate the needs of the time, vision and ambition are needed as guidelines for strategic area development.
Jos Hesselink • 09/12/2020
Insights
Ode to the housing association
We are faced with a major challenge to ensure that living in the city remains affordable and thus retains its soul and that we feel connected to the city in which we live.
Jos Hesselink • 12/11/2020