Richard Tice
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It is time to ease the lockdown
Under his Twitter title, TV star Piers Morgan posts one of his favourite sayings: “One day you’re cock of the walk, the next a feather duster.”
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PM's Brexit deal is worst deal anyone has ever proposed
Making predictions in politics is a fraught business. Events can move so fast. Anything can happen at the moment. As I write, the government is in chaos of its own making. There could be a leadership challenge on the PM at any moment.
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Forget Brexit and party scandals – business is booming
Three months ago, I wrote about the need to prepare for a very socialist Labour government. Since then, both the Labour party and the Tories have inflicted all sorts of harm on themselves thanks to their respective associations with antisemitism and Windrush. All this without even considering Brexit.
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Time to get our heads around idea of Labour government
Property has always had a love-hate relationship with the Labour Party.
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Brexit doom-mongers have been proved wrong
After my last two articles this year avoided the subject, I make no apology for returning to Brexit.
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Other side of the bridge
The defence of the ditched Garden Bridge by Paul Finch was interesting to read and hear the other side of the story.
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Self-regulation is better than government intervention
Experience shows that the longer sharp practices that rip off people or other businesses continue, the bigger the fall when the government intervenes.
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Introduce an online delivery tax to save the high street
There is a massive elephant in the real estate room that many in the industry dare not admit and most in government and local authorities have not really woken up to, let alone addressed. It is the biggest industry disruptor most of us will ever see.
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AREF report: no lessons learned
AREF’s latest report assessing the impact of the Brexit vote on UK real estate and the funds industry is complacent and protects the vested interests of those who instructed it.
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Stop complaining! We need to focus on creating growth
Imagine you have been stranded on a desert island for three years with no news or internet whatsoever and have returned to the UK on the first day of 2017.
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Trump and Brexit present opportunities despite hurdles
It was clear to me in July, just after the Brexit vote at the Trump Republican convention in the struggling Ohio city of Cleveland, that the similarities were enormous and that Trump was very likely to win. The experts, pollsters and press would be wrong again.
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REITs put open-ended property funds to shame
Should the property industry be embarrassed that, post Brexit vote, some of its main domestic-property-owning institutions have been involved in a mini flash crash, caused by fundamentally flawed open-ended fund structures?
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Brexit: the anxiety, the reality and the dividend
So the political and corporate establishment’s recommendation has been rejected by the people and the recriminations are flying as I write.
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Keep calm and carry on
The people have given the elite establishment in SW1 and in Brussels a proper wake up call.
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Brexit would open up a world of opportunity for the UK
As co-chair of the largest Brexit campaign, www.leave.eu, which has more than 750,000 supporters, it has been an extraordinary, intimidating experience taking on the establishment on behalf of the people.
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Leave is stronger than ever
Brexit would make Britain free to negotiate our own trade agreements
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Could global market turmoil make property the new gold?
This time last year, I said 2015 could be a vintage year for real estate and indeed it was.
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Corbyn: a potential win-win for real estate
The election of Jeremy Corbyn could be an unexpected force for good for UK real estate. We may end up thanking him.
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Business is wrong – Brexit would benefit us all
Markets are often wrong, particularly when the consensus thinking seems unstoppable.
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Relax: the election will not trouble UK plc
Only real gamblers would bet on a majority government of either colour given the polls.