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Randall on Madoff at Jewish Association of Business Ethics
I spent a riveting evening yesterday at the Jewish Association for Business Ethics Annual Dinner and Seminar hearing industry luminaries wrestling with some pretty profound problems. Sky News presenter and Daily Telegraph editor-at-large Jeff Randall deserves credit for posing some very tough questions – as do his panelists Nick Leslau, ...
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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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What do CB Richard Ellis’s Sue Clayton, Kitchen Le Frenais Morgan’s Ian Kitchen and Helical Bar’s Gerald Kaye all have in common?
What do CB Richard Ellis’s Sue Clayton, Kitchen Le Frenais Morgan’s Ian Kitchen and Helical Bar’s Gerald Kaye all have in common? They all graduated from Reading University in estate management in 1979. [gallery] Ditto Property Merchant Group’s James Bowdidge, PruPim’s Peter Best and Cushman Wakefield UK ...
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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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David Harper Sailing Blog - Part 23
With the race due to start in less than three weeks time an army of volunteers had been asked to come down to Gosport to help get their boats ready for the race. Everyone offered up whatever time they could spare and I had been warned by my friend Charlie ...
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Listen Very Carefully - Rising house prices is not a good thing
At the danger of being stoned to death the next time I go into a bar in Mayfair, or getting banned from even more dinner parties in South West London, can I state a few facts, as I see them: A housing market that rises much in excess of average ...
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David Harper Sailing Blog - Part 22
As readers of this blog will know one of the key reasons I have undertaken this extreme sailing challenge is to raise £10,000 for Cancer Research and I have been using a “Just giving” webpage to collect donations. The main way I have been letting people know about the project ...
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Some relief from Empty Property Rates please!
To House of Commons Dining Room B on Wednesday lunchtime to hear the latest on the property industry’s continuing battle to reinstate empty rate relief. The big guns led by the British Property Federation appear to have given up the ghost, but the Business Centres Association, fights on. It was ...
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Residential Market - uncertainty continues
The uncertainty surrounding the recovery in the UK residential market continues, whilst the market awaits the Nationwide housing survey to see if the upward trend in prices has continued during October, however the Land Registry did report that house prices have risen by nearly 4% since April. The recovery ...
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How lucky we are
Last Wednesday night before setting off for a couple of days `r and r’ with Mrs Barrie in Madrid I was reminded of just how lucky most of people in property and media are. The occasion? The launch of LandAid’s `Foundation Partners’ scheme, through which 25 of the biggest company ...
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Market Commentary - property pushing on
As equity markets pause for breath and slip back among growing concerns about the state of the economy the property market along with derivative pricing pushed on and even the Dec 09 contract finally clambered out of the negative pricing range! RICS reported that Inquiries and new lettings activity in ...
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As if my mind went blank...
I had a nightmare moment last night. Having enjoyed the challenge of chairing Offices 09, checked proofs and laid out next week’s Occupiers section with Hardeep I enjoyed a chilled glass of white at the CoreNet Stand. Fifteen minutes later I was back on stage in front of 600 property ...
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Will mini-boom lead to hiring revival?
Friday’s Leader Column on whether now is the right time to start up a new agency has generated a fair degree of comment. My old sparring partner Peter Bill took up the same argument in his weekly column in Estates Gazette, too, which shows what a big talking point this ...
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Setting up: Big dogs and Spanish holidays
The rollercoaster ride of our new company continues. IT rather than cash-flow still remains the scourge of our start-up agency, Paul’s laptop crashed terminally the week before, followed by my Blackberry the night before we were flying out to Spain for 2 days ‘bonding and brainstroming’. Luckily a rather nice ...
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SILVERBURN SELL OFF
The sale of Silverburn is getting me excited. If the deal does gets done, (and I stress if), it could give us a true indication of shopping centre values and give a boost to the Scottish property market. As the Scottish Markets writer for Property Week , I am sure ...
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Bailiffs top agenda at Landlord Masterclass
Bailiffs were the biggest talking point at last night’s Mishcon de Reya/Property Week `Landlord’s Masterclass’. A collection of 100 of Britain’s most prominent landlords bared their teeth by revealing that sending the boys round is still the most effective means of collecting late rent. Actually, `sending the boys round’ might ...
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Saturday 10th October - The End.
A relaxing night staying in beach huts on a peninsular just off Dar Es Salaam, where we partied late last night. After all the hard work everyone was relieved and exhausted. Chilled on the beach all day and then headed back to the airport to fly home. A very tiring ...
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Tori blogs from EXPO REAL
“This is much more efficient than Mipim. Here, there is no beach and no boats!” That is how one of my fellow delegates summed up the Expo Real experience. You see, I am currently stranded out here in Munich, an English émigré in a sea of sausage-munching, beer swilling German ...
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Four-figure attendance signals `conference of the future’
Hold on to your hats – Property Week’s first `virtual’ conference kicked off this morning. The idea is for people to sit at their computers and learn about property and the market in the UK. No need to go to an expensive show or more importantly, to have to ...
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Friday: A morning in the slums of Morogoro
Oh joy, we had a lie in to 7 am and then spent the morning at the Faraja project supported by ICT, based in the slums of Morogoro. They work with HIV AIDS, have a water project and we went to their school which is for those affected by broken ...
