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BE News is excited to announce the launch of BE Club, the first exclusive – and inclusive – club for the entire built environment industry.

BE Club is a new premium subscriptions service – without the premium price tag – for professionals working across the industry whether in commercial real estate, housing, construction, planning, engineering, architecture, marketing, law or another part of the built environment universe.

As those of you who have registered for BE Alert or used the BE News website will know, co-founder Simon Creasey and I launched BE News in 2023 with the aim of disrupting and democratising the market with the first quality, free-to-use news service that covers the entire built environment industry.

Our goals were – and remain – lofty. We want to make the news, information and insights that people need to do their jobs accessible to everyone across the built environment industry, including those not lucky enough to benefit from a corporate subscription or able to afford an individual subscription.

Our thinking was simple, and apologies if I’m about to shatter the illusion for anyone, but the age of the bona fide exclusive news story is over. Today, most of the news stories you read are based on press releases. News outlets don’t pay for those press releases; they receive them for free. So, if they don’t pay for them, why should you? You certainly should not be paying hundreds or thousands of pounds.

That is why BE News and BE Alert are free to access and why we are the fastest growing title in our space. It is also why, in keeping with our freemium, no or low-cost model, we wanted to launch an accessibly priced – or inclusive and exclusive – membership club.

BE Club membership costs just £9.99 a month or £99 a year – a fraction of what others are charging for subscriptions.

For that, you receive a carefully curated weekly newsletter featuring an exclusive leader comment piece written by Simon or I, a roundup of the top stories or ‘editor’s picks’, a ‘seen elsewhere’ section of stories, um, seen elsewhere, a quote of the week, a recommended long read, a social media post of the week, a diary story and more exclusive members-only content.

You will also benefit from early access to our events, a regular BE Club podcast and, in the new year, a quarterly magazine that blends business and lifestyle content, initially in digital and then in glossy print form. That’s just for starters. The more people who subscribe, the more exclusive benefits they will unlock – including access to a physical club space one day, we hope.

In short, we are emulating what many national news outlets do and providing a core news service for free and charging (in our case a very modest amount) for our ‘premium’ subscription service. I say premium, but the price point isn’t. BE Club costs less monthly than most people spend on takeout coffees every couple of days, our motto being: why pay more for less when you can pay less for more?

How can we afford to charge so little? Well, our operating costs are lower, we are a highly experienced, award-winning team that can deliver a lot more with a lot less and we have access to a vast network of industry experts and commentators who have far deeper insights to share than most journalists have.

So, please subscribe and spread the word to your colleagues. If you like a lot of content in your newsletter, join BE Club!