This week, thousands of real estate professionals, public sector officials and architects will travel to Leeds for UKREiiF, now a leading platform in the UK for serious conversations about the future of the built environment and, crucially, who gets to shape it.

I’m also heading up north, and I can’t hide my excitement. Why? Not because it offers another stage for the same old conversations, but because it holds the potential to finally shift narratives and influence agendas in the right direction. This is the time to embed genuine change in the industries that shape our environments, which in turn shape us as people and drive our collective prosperity.

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