SocInvest

 

Newsletter archive

• SocInvest Test of new logos (9 August 2012)
• WIP SocInvest News (8 March 2012)
• SocInvest: Peer expresses disappointment over TIF cap...Scotland considers infrastructure levy (29 March 2012)
• SocInvest....Consultation on REITS for social homes...Developer slams CIL proposals...Development vehicle boost (5 April 2012)
• SocInvest: Warnings over London pension infrastructure fund (12 April 2012)
• SocInvest: Call for market rents to be designated affordable...New Welsh housing vehicle...Key mayoral regeneration pledges (19 April 2012)
• SocInvest: "Reforms will not significantly decentralise funding"...Edinburgh scraps TIF...Interview with Core Cities boss (26 April 2012)
• SocInvest: Government 'misses growth fund opportunity' (3 May 2012)
• SocInvest - NHS publishes list of surplus land for sale...EIB poised to announce first UK JESSICA schemes (17 May 2012)
• SocInvest - Quango releases list of sites for sale (10 May 2012)
• SocInvest - Rate reset announcement sparks TIF uncertainty...Clegg outlines infrastructure boost (24 May 2012)
• SocInvest: Social housing quango loosens rules on land disposal (31 May 2012)
• SocInvest - Personal savings could fund infrastructure projects (7 June 2012)
• SocInvest: Battersea Power Station announcement paves way for TIF (14 June 2012)
• SocInvest: city calls in help for CIL bid (21 June 2012)
• SocInvest: Bob Neill speaks to SocInvest 12 (28 June 2012)
• SocInvest: Government unveils TIF schemes (12 July 2012)
• SocInvest: Property chief hints at CIL changes (15 November 2012)
• SocInvest: Government rebrands tax increment finance schemes (19 July 2012)
• Panel calls for new public surplus land disposal regime (20 December 2012)
• SocInvest: IED slams LEPs...Engineers call for pension pooling...and more (26 July 2012)
• SocInvest: Lords make bid to extend TIF...PFI reform lessons from Scotland (11 October 2012)
• SocInvest: £1 billion LABV scheme...First regulated resi fund launches...Date set for Infrastructure fund launch (2 August 2012)
• SocInvest: Watford LABV partner set to be named...Government review of CIL...and more (9 August 2012)
• SocInvest: Review calls for cheaper public land sales...Councillors vote down TIF scheme... Rise in public surplus land...and more (23 August 2012)
• SocInvest: Birmingham approves £119m TIF...Cheaper borrowing for associations...and more (16 August 2012)
• SocInvest: Talks held on infrastructure investment platform (30 August 2012)
• SocInvest: Major regeneration package announced...Treasury hand detected in DCLG reshuffle...Kier wins Watford LABV contract...and more (6 September 2012)
• SocInvest: Report: "Some LEPs are more equal than others" (13 September 2012)
• SocInvest: Slough Borough Council appoints LABV preferred partner (20 September 2012)
• SocInvest JOBS test (20 September 2012)
• SocInvest: TCPA proposes new town funding model (27 September 2012)
• SocInvest: Pension funds 'nervous of social housing investment' (4 October 2012)
• SocInvest: Debt guarantees "could breath life back into option 1 TIF" (18 October 2012)
• SocInvest: Eye wins Sheffield region homes contract (25 October 2012)
• SocInvest: LABV reform 'could improve take-up' (1 November 2012)
• SocInvest: Government proposes relaxation of pension fund investment rules (8 November 2012)
• SocInvest: Clegg hints at TIF-style funding for large homes schemes, LABV scrapped (22 November 2012)
• Housing bodies call for fairer deal on borrowing rules (29 November 2012)
• Autumn Statement special: Government announces PFI replacement (6 December 2012)
• Credit ratings agency issues warning on housing associations (13 December 2012)
• Warnings over "Boles bungs"...Massive institutional resi investment...and more (10 January 2013)
• SocInvest: John Laing calls time on local asset backed vehicles (17 January 2013)
• Transport academics issue warning over infrastructure expectations (24 January 2012)
• Government reiterates commitment to garden cities (31 January 2013)
• Report calls on greater intervention to deliver Garden City agenda (7 February 2013)
• Montague questions housing guarantees (14 February 2013)
• More pension funds join infrastructure platform (21 February 2013)
• Budget 2013: Sector voices concern over government infrastructure focus (22 March 2013)
• Property industry welcomes proposed levy shake-up (18 April 2013)
• Commission calls for TIF powers for London (23 May 2013)
• Councils to be given financial incentives to sell land (28 June 2013)
• Councils suggest tweaks to reformed HRA regime (25 July 2013)
• Council set to combine TIF and LABV (22 August 2013)
• Councils explore LABV and TIF...Miliband unveils housing commission...City Deal unveiled (27 September 2013)

Working with a steering committee of private- and public-sector experts and specialists, over the past five years SocInvest has pioneered discussion of:

• Local asset backed vehicles
• Tax increment financing
• Community infrastructure levies
• European funding vehicles such as JESSICA
• Enterprise zones
• Other public sector funding models to deliver regeneration, homes and communities and infrastructure.

 

SocInvest always asked:

• What are the benefits to the public sector?
• What are the returns and risks for the private sector?
• What are the best funding routes available in a difficult economic climate?
• Who can help you?