This month’s construction industry gossip: All the fun of the forum

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2026-06-19T06:00:00

The latest chatter around the industry

Otherwise engaged

Last month’s property shindig at the UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum or UKREiiF as people in the know call it, in Leeds, was described to me by one delegate as like “being at a festival but without the beer and music”. I’m not too sure about that: I saw plenty of beer (and wine) from where I was standing and it wasn’t sitting idly in crates. What I did hear was a few complaints from people who were there that there was no one to sign off on stuff at local authorities because, they said, all the mayors were at… UKREiiF.

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