All Big Interviews articles
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InsightBloom and grow: A big interview with the founders of I&L start-up
Two 30-year-old university friends are shaking up London’s industrial and logistics market with their ultra-urban warehouse firm Bloom. They tell Andy Hillier what sets them apart from the competition.
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Interview with LGIM’s Bill Hughes: Strange new worlds
Bill Hughes, head of real assets at Legal & General Investment Management, says patience is a virtue when exploring new territory.
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Big interview with the Vita Group COO: ‘We’re a consumer-focused brand’
Vita Group chief operating officer Max Bielby tells Andy Hillier how focusing on quality and lifting the customer experience have helped to set the student specialist apart in a fast-growing market
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Making a northern powerhouse
Andrew Coombs, chief executive of Sirius Real Estate, tells Andy Hillier why the business park operator has its gaze fixed on the north after the purchase of BizSpace.
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Big interview with Julie Hirigoyen: ‘We need urgent climate action’
Julie Hirigoyen, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, tells Ifeoluwa Taiwo about its new 2025 strategy for the property sector and reveals what the government needs to do to close the policy gap.
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Kajima: The quiet giant is not just big in Japan
Kajima’s European property arm has kept a low profile despite building a portfolio spanning many countries and sectors. Managing director John Harcourt tells Property Week why the business likes to fly under the radar.
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Big interview with the founder of flex office start-up infinitSpace
Wybo Wijnbergen, founder of flex office start-up infinitSpace, tells Property Week how the lessons he learned at WeWork helped inform his white-label flex space service for landlords.
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LCR Property CEO discusses post-Covid life and future plans
Peter Hawthorne is CEO of LCR Property, which brings forward land near railways for redevelopment. He tells Property Week how he plans to unlock and de-risk a pipeline of 300 sites across England and Wales.
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Legal & General homes in on modular housebuilding
It got off to a slow start, but Legal & General’s modular housebuilding arm is now motoring ahead. Its CEO gives Property Week a tour of the factory and reveals how it will disrupt the way the industry works.
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Big interview with Interim Spaces founder
Interim Spaces founder Dan Simon tells Property Week how a decade of squatting in central London inspired a charity that transforms vacant property into temporary workspace for tenants in the creative industries.
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The birth of a logistics giant
GLP Europe’s Daan van den Hoven and Nick Cook reveal to Property Week how the business has transformed itself into one of the biggest logistics developers in Europe.
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GPA heads on plans for estate overhaul
GPA chief executive Steven Boyd and chair Pat Ritchie outline their plans for the government’s vast property estate to Anviksha Patel and reveal how they have changed as a result of Covid and sustainability concerns.
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A real stand-up Guy: interview with Guy Grainger
Exactly a year after becoming JLL’s EMEA global head of sustainability services and ESG, Guy Grainger took over on 1 January 2022 from David Partridge as president of the BPF. He sets out his stall to Liz Hamson.
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Many happy retail returns to HGR
As the business turns five, the founders of London retail specialist agent Hanover Green Retail talk to Laura McGuire about their love for the troubled sector, how they weathered Covid and their future plans.
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Q&A: Interim RICS bosses on how to restore member trust
Richard Collins and Nicholas Maclean explain why they remain upbeat about the future despite the challenges.
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Sunderland turns the tide at the Riverside
Sunderland City Council’s executive director of development Peter McIntyre tells Property Week how Covid has accelerated a key regeneration scheme in the city, following investment by L&G and the council.
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King’s Cross 20th anniversary: Interview with Argent’s Robert Evans
Robert Evans, joint managing partner at Argent, talks to Property Week about King’s Cross - 20 years on.
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Landlords: meet your new nemesis
Commercial Tenants Association chief executive Peter Bell talks to Property Week about the need to protect distressed tenants and what can be done to foster better relationships with landlords.
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Beds and sheds: a capital idea?
Regal London planning director Steve Harrington tells Property Week about its Wembley and Orchard Wharf schemes and the challenges of delivering large-scale beds-and-sheds developments in the capital.
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Big interview with Simon Murphy, CEO of Battersea Power Station Development Company (BPSDC)
Battersea Power Station Development Company boss Simon Murphy tells Property Week how the developer scaled “the Everest of property” and why he is so bullish about the £9bn scheme’s post-Covid prospects.
