All Property Week articles in 29 May 2020 – Page 5
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NewsThe end of the Atkins plan?
It had been coming (and critics would say he had it coming). The only surprise is that it did not happen sooner.
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OnlineSenior Housing & Healthcare Association launched amid Covid-19 crisis
A body called the Senior Housing Healthcare Association has been launched in a bid to shape the future of the care industry.
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OnlineHarrods opens second outlet in Westfield shopping centre
Harrods is opening a concept store in London’s Westfield shopping centre to retail remaining stock from the current season.
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NewsDigital platform to help Cheesegrater occupiers return to work
Customer experience platform provider Cureoscity has been appointed by CC Land to provide a digital service to help with the post-lockdown reoccupation of the Cheesegrater in the City.
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InsightA once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Alexander Graham Bell’s words of wisdom “when one door closes, another opens” are well known, but less famous is that he went on to add “but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us”. ...
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InsightLetter from New York
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said on 21 May that “all roads” lead to partial reopening of stores and businesses by mid-June. It was an unexpected upbeat note amid the prevailing gloom.
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InsightInvest now in the ‘new normal’
“It’s wise to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
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InsightHelp for reopened housing market is long overdue
Editor: In reopening the housing market the government has introduced a number of new measures that will support development that arguably should have been in place anyway.
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InsightA silver lining in a year to forget
This has been a year to forget so far. On 20 February, global equity markets plunged in a crash rivalling the 2008 downturn. Though they have rallied thanks to central bank support, hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine and a rebound in business activity as governments ease lockdown, things could take ...
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NewsFormer WeWork staff set up workspace firm
RE-defined will run offices for landlords and cut out ‘middleman’ operators.
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MarketsSomerset feels force of Gravity
High-tech business campus aims to be the greenest scheme of its kind in the UK.
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InsightPut employees first in the return to work
Editor: Savills’ Richard Rees is right to emphasise that planning properly for the return to work is crucial, with health and wellbeing a top priority.
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InsightThe market will survive this crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had the most significant impact on the world economy since the global financial crisis (GFC).
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NewsPlan to curb council property spending has ‘major loophole’
Experts have questioned the likely impact of the plan to ‘severely restrict’ loans to councils on the grounds that it is not mandatory.
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InsightPlenty of life left in city offices
How fragile yet dynamic the workplace has become over the past four or five decades. Ever since Sir Stuart Lipton and DEGW produced the Orbit Study to underpin the then revolutionary occupational and related investment case for Broadgate, change has been piled on top of change in a never-ending quest ...
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MarketsHorizon is changing in Filton with major industrial scheme
When it comes to the South West industrial and logistics market, activity has historically centred around Avonmouth and the area immediately to the south of Bristol.
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NewsQ&A: Neil Young on relaunching start-up incubator business
The former Get Living chief executive talks to Property Week about his past successes, current challenges and future plans.
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MarketsDesigner Outlet Cotswolds looks to buck retail downturn
With the retail sector struggling more than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Robert Hitchins’ property director Simon Tothill could not have chosen a worse time to develop “the best-connected retail outlet in the UK”.
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News‘It was only a matter of time’: Industry reacts to David Atkins' stepping down
Following a torrid spell of trading for the shopping centre landlord, Hammerson’s embattled chief executive David Atkins has announced plans to step down after more than a decade at the helm.
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NewsTravelodge landlords eye up alternatives
A business representing the landlords of almost 400 Travelodge hotels is putting together a list of alternative options for landlords should the hotel operator decide to undertake a CVA.
