Third year as a delegate and sponsor of LREF and I?m walking around the pavilion this morning and it's buzzing. Busier than ever. It's exhausting. Everyone knows everyone. It reminds me of just how small the London market is. Outside Berkeley Square is full of people hiding, taking a rest before re-joining the foray, and I don't blame them.

This is my first blog. I've never done one before (Facebook is still something I aspire to getting round to) and I thought I would comment on two themes that come to mind following a great couple of days talking to exhibitors, developers, policy makers and advisors at LREF 2107.

The first is that the aspiration to deliver more homes at an affordable price in London remains, quite rightly, at the top of the agenda for policy makers and public sector landowners. Indeed the various speeches and presentations delivered so far by many of our most senior industry leaders suggest that the aspiration to deliver is moving from aspiration to desperation. I think all of us involved in the industry feel and understand this.

I have heard of little that suggests that the primary blockages to housing delivery - planning complexities, lack of sufficient funding for local infrastructure, CPO delays etc., will change anytime soon. So, I'm putting the clamour over housing down as "more of the same". Don't bet on London's long term growth rate of over seven percent per annum, changing any time soon.

But I have come across something of the new, to me at least. While standing by the London model, Ed Greig, Disruptor at Deloitte Digital presented on how analytics and robotics are (sorry, have) changed real estate.

With a spark in his eye, Ed explained to me that it is now possible to scan design plans for a house, turn these into a super realistic Virtual Reality walk through in 60 seconds. Thus allowing the buyer/occupier to wander through the house and chose the interior layout and fittings. When the house has been chosen, hit print and have it delivered, by a very big 3D printer, 24 hours later. I think it's the combination of all of this technology that provides such exciting potential to change the way we peruse and buy, and how we will design and deliver buildings in the very near future. The Robots have definitely arrived and, best of all, the total cost of delivering a small house in this way is under £15,000!!

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