Columnists
Debt-bound banks: better to give than to receive
Property Week was among the loudest voices speaking out against soaring bank lending to real estate in the mid-2000s.
I dare you to step back on the British high street
When will it be safe to go back into the high street?
It’s business as usual, in or out of the limelight
I’ve become used to seeing my picture in the papers over the last 10 years or so, and it’s neither bothered me nor excited me much because it has all been factual, pretty accurate and, for the most part, favourable.
Sports Direct model is win-win for shoppers and retailers
As one retailer after another disappoints the stock market in the current reporting season, some observers have tried to use the “w” word to justify the sector’s malaise.
The next Google or Microsoft will be made in Salford
We have been a long-term investor in Salford Quays since 1985. However, it is less than five years since we began the construction of Media City UK.
Crisis on cards for landlords as Clinton caves
“Clinton Cards was renowned in the 1980s and the late 1990s for making the market. You could rely on Clinton to break the record rent and attempt to obliterate the opposition in towns where there was surplus supply.
REIT managements face punishment from investors
US baseball veteran “Yogi” Berra once said of a game: “It’s deja vu all over again.” Are REIT shares about to repeat 2011’s “year in two halves”?
Coalition’s heavy-handed regulation is killing regeneration
I recently enjoyed a visit to the Shard at London Bridge and was hugely impressed. The views were breathtaking and the attention to detail admirable.
Boris may have ended Ken’s political career, but he’s no PM
In the event the London mayoral contest was just as I forecast here — a damn close-run thing.
Occupier insights that will define next decade
Office occupiers are the key to driving the revival of the sector, given that corporate Britain is estimated to be sitting on £750bn of unused cash.
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Ten commandments for property lenders
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Meadowhall: will it be Korea, Norway, China or Whittaker?
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Sterling is being swizzled by double-dip recession
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Women are integral to UK property's future success
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The development window is open, but 2016 will be too late
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Are we being served? How retailers must adapt to survive
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Planning framework is more lawyers’ charter than developers’ friend
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No sympathy for the private equity prepack devil
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On your bike Boris, Ken is property’s true friend
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In London’s two-horse mayoral race, it’s Boris by a nose
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Frustrated US investor steers European REITs in right direction
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Know value of location and good asset management to be local hero
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Tech boom lights up flat first quarter for property
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Valuers: you are way behind on market rents
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Focus, people — specialised property companies produce bigger returns
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UK confidence is justified but southern Europe could drag it down
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Architectural gems enrich Square Mile, but more must be done
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Prepack predictions for LSH are premature
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Property funds now need to price green risk
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Hermes heralds new era for "fat cat" remuneration
Nick Leslau
Coalition’s heavy-handed regulation is killing regeneration
I recently enjoyed a visit to the Shard at London Bridge and was hugely impressed. The views were breathtaking and the attention to detail admirable.
Mike Slade
Wanted: site for housing development
Many of you will have read in the national press criticism of my support, as chairman of the Property Forum, for the Tory coalition and for radical change in our planning law
Sir Stuart Lipton
Planning reform and sustainable development are our social obligation
The post-war period has been a failure in planning terms
Lord Oakeshot
Valuers: you are way behind on market rents
British commercial property values have been flat — just like the British economy — for the past two years. It’s been a battle between high yields, which are juicier by far than those from equities and bonds, and falling rents.
John Plender
Sterling is being swizzled by double-dip recession
Who’s afraid of the double dip? Not the currency markets, whose response to the news that UK GDP had fallen by 0.2% in the first quarter of the year was to push sterling up to its highest level since August 2009.
