Columnists
Portas and policy makers' high street headache
“Portas is a legacy of Blair’s celebrity culture, but she’s not Sir Bob and the high street isn’t Africa. She’s a distraction not a solution,” — @tpfv23, aka Jones Lang LaSalle head of retail Tim Vallance.
Global capital flows are now what move markets
Overseas capital has for a long time played a significant role in the key property markets of Europe, but rarely has it been as noticeable and important as it is today.
We’re working our asanas off on asset management
My latest life-changing acquisition is a piece of luggage on wheels.
Both investors and supermarkets will gain from marriage of convenience
In the last few weeks, we have had strategic updates from all of the big food retailers and the shift in their attitude towards new stores has been marked.
Your solutions to London conundrum
It’s the conversation that won’t go away. No matter what the starting point, it always ends up in the same place.
Beware fallout from Japan’s economic policy
Question: “How do REIT CEOs count?”Answer: “One, two, three … trend.”
They don’t like the French and they don’t care about returns
It has been quite a year so far. We all came back into work in January with huge enthusiasm for the challenges in front of us and generally the level of confidence was high.
Leave it to business to revive economy, rather than government
The longer the central banks persist in quantitative easing (QE), the more sceptical people become about the impact on the real economy.
Industry must show government its worth
It is time the property industry made a proper case for its contribution to the UK economy.
The private lives of housing associations
Housing associations are big business. They have a vital responsibility to the nation for housing people well.
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Brave new digital world is redefining shopping
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Unhappy reality of United Kingdom is that it is not united at all
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London polarisation will lead investors to alternatives
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Stagflation raises spectre of 1981 — but this time opportunity knocks
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Do the maths: Google pays its dues at King’s Cross
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Help to Buy: another boom and bust in the making
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The Look of Love: King of Soho’s life between sleaze and property
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Thatcher's era holds lessons good and bad
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Driving the green agenda through a sustainable supply chain
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Do not discount the success of discounters — they are here to stay
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In property, as in sport, we must return to basics of good teamwork
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Thatcher's property legacy has enabled millions to own their own home
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After historic woes on stock markets, institutional investors play long game in property
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Tide is turning in favour of private-rented sector
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Do the maths: €500bn of non-core assets will sell for €200bn
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As good as it got: baby boomer years of easy returns may be over
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Help to Buy is all well and good, but where are the actual homes?
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As always, plenty of food for thought in Square Mile
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No sale of DTZ without ‘Aussie bog cleaners’
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Why we welcome Britain’s economic migrants
Nick Leslau
10 years and out — we’re battered and bruised but alive to tell the tale
Our grandchildren will ask us one day: “What were you doing at the time of the Big Crash?”
Mike Slade
10 years and out — congratulations to those who have survived since 2003
Reading our 2003 accounts with the benefit of hindsight is fascinating.
Sir Stuart Lipton
My 10-point plan for the sustainable growth of London
London is a world city restricted by rules that prevent the mayor of London from being fully in control.
Lord Oakeshot
For investors the long view has never looked better
Yields on UK commercial property now offer outstanding investment value to long-term investors, standing near all-time relative high yield spreads of 4.5 percentage points above long gilts and 7 points over index linked.
John Plender
Leave it to business to revive economy, rather than government
The longer the central banks persist in quantitative easing (QE), the more sceptical people become about the impact on the real economy.
