All articles by Andrew Teacher – Page 2
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Don’t look back in anger
As the police escort peeled away from Gordon Brown leaving Buckingham Palace at sunset, it was the final sad scene of New Labour’s epilogue which has lasted pretty much three years. Ironically, it was property that became Brown’s first big broken promise. Just as it brought down RBS and Lloyds, ...
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OnlineChampagne socialists and property rock n' rollers
In a week where the prime minister had to do more digging than the entire UK property industry has over the last decade, you’d have thought he’d have got more of a drilling in the debate.
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Champagne socialists and property rock’n’rollers
In a week where the prime minister had to do more digging than the entire UK property industry has over the last decade, you’d have thought he’d have got more of a drilling in the debate. But it highlights the ineptness of the other two and their complete lack of ...
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Budget 2010: What difference does it make?
‘Vote for change,’ scream the Tory banners, with airbrushed-Dave peering down creepily like the ghost of Gareth Gates. ‘The choice,’ we’re told, is of ‘five more years of the same pants, or queuing up in M S to buy some new ones.’ And you know how long the queues are ...
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OnlineBLOG: Cannes-do attitude
Day two of Mipim-proper is slightly sorer than the first and it was good to see our national journalists staying out past 10.30pm after an embarrassing show saw everyone tucked up in bed far too early on Monday. Half of the Brits here dispersed to the local Irish pub to ...
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OnlineNo mud, but Cannes will be Glastonbury for all you suits
If you replaced the yachts with tents, champagne with magic mushrooms and lawyers with, erm, lawyers, then Mipim becomes Glastonbury.
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No mud, but Cannes will be Glastonbury for all you suits
If you replaced the yachts with tents, champagne with magic mushrooms and lawyers with, erm, lawyers, then Mipim becomes Glastonbury. “I’ll meet you by the mixing desk,” you’d say, knowing that your mobile won’t work, only to discover a hundred thousand others all have the idea. Do you remember walking ...
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The Green Mile
After more leaks than the Titanic and more false starts than a botched NASA mission, the Tories’ planning green paper is now out. It was with a thud as sloppy as a pair of Gordon Brown’s socks hitting a hapless aide in the face that the Conservatives’ planning green paper ...
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BlogsA game of three halves
The three biggest hitters in property - British Land, Land Securities and Segro - go head-to-head over the future of the property industry. Andrew Teacher is on the sidelines with his shorthand pad.
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Man in the Mirror
My desk is nearly clear, I’m nearly done and the sustainable office Christmas tree has been on all night again. Soon I’ll be gone. But don’t get too excited, I don’t have a terminal disease and no one’s uncovered my insider dealing or illegal human trafficking either. I’m just about ...
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Core Cities Day Two: Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
After the misery of Monday, day two of the Core Cities Summit is a bit brighter. One of the running jokes of the morning is how Sadiq Khan, the transport minister, managed to get into the centre of Liverpool without getting hit by a tram. “I’m glad Core Cities have ...
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Core Cities Summit Day One: Blue Monday
It’s all doom and gloom at council leader’s annual bash The first afternoon of the city leaders’ annual get-together is filled with more than just a little gloom. Everyone you could ever wish to see from the world of regeneration and civic leadership is here, plus a few you probably ...
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THE IRRESPONSIBLES
It was great to see Yvette Cooper get absolutely slaughtered on Question Time last night. Mrs Ed Balls – by all accounts just as much as a mini-Gordon as the education secretary himself – even got taken apart by an audience member over her flagrant hypocrisy on inheritance tax. That ...
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Sing when you're whining
What makes England a good country is that any nut-job is entitled to their opinion. Take the loose-tongued hippies lining the road outside the Tory conference for example. They spend their days screeching through electric cones about how David Cameron is murdering foxes. Now I’m neither a proponent of Conservatism ...
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CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA
As someone with a pedigree in music, my partying background has always consisted of two things: Jack and Coke. With that in mind, there is one notable thing about the Conservative conference. It isn’t that all the prospective party candidates are all petite, female blondes in their early twenties, or ...
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HOUSING IN A HALF-SHELL
Having been up here since Saturday, I decided to take a break for briefing BBC producers on the virtues of the BPF’s buy-to-let mortgage regulation policy with a stroll to my favourite boutiques around Oldham Street on Sunday afternoon. Being a valued customer of one of these shops, I was ...
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The CVA backlash begins
Where do firms draw the line between loving in their tenants without dumping the bodies of others into black bags thrown into Walthamstow reservoir? Transparency without favouritism seems to be the balancer. And with that in mind, Westfield chief Peter Miller has hit out at company voluntary agreements ...
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Morning after / night before
The news that (literally) woke me up this morning (thanks Mr Pratt) that Grainger chief executive, Rupert Dickinson, had resigned due to health problems was sad but expected. It’s been nearly six months since Andrew Cunningham, their former FD, took the reigns, and thought things now seem on the up ...
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Knives out
“The reality is that momentum has stalled,” admits John Lewis’s head of development Jeremy Collins, president of the BCSC. To the mock-horror of Leeds City Council’s leader Andrew Carter this probably means there won’t be a John Lewis in Leeds any time soon. Still, they’ve signed up for Stratford at ...
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Jackson revival plans
Conservative regeneration spokesman Stewart Jackson has committed to following through the BPF’s proposals on tax increment financing. This is good news for the industry. Although he did not make any firm commitments around funding, there was a definite nod of agreement to the notion that the public sector would need ...
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