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  • Bond Street
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    There's still life on the high street

    2011-12-09T10:36:00Z

    Recent months have seen a slew of UK retailers including Thorntons, Mothercare, Comet, Dixons and announcing plans to abandon high street stores, often in favour of out-of-town retail parks.

  • Blogs

    Fire Alarm

    2011-12-02T11:27:15.753Z

    At the moment buildings are still being constructed that may need alteration, adjustment or retrofits to comply with changes from the Lakanal House report

  • Blogs

    Wine Blog: Highs and lows of a tasting fuelled month

    2011-11-29T11:35:00Z

    It’s been a relatively busy month of tastings and wine related events already so I thought that I would focus on a selection of highs and lows.

  • Blogs

    Squashing squatting on hold for a later date

    2011-11-25T16:52:36.483Z

    The government's decision to introduce a criminal offence of squatting is progression although I am troubled by the decision to limit the offence to residential property alone.

  • New Change is buzzing but some shoppers just have loose change
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    LandSecs On Fire

    2011-11-23T17:30:00Z

    Having stood their ground last year buying and opening shopping centres, Land Securities delighted investors today by cutting voids and debt, lining up a heap of developments. Francis Salway has always been the man with the plan, but can his optimism for retail really be shared by those outside the ...

  • Andrew Thomson
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    Housing crisis can only get worse

    2011-11-04T14:45:00Z

    We have had a housing crisis for at least three years and in the short term it can only get worse.

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    Wine Blog: Grange 1985 with Harvey Goldsmith CBE

    2011-09-22T16:28:53.800Z

    The Australian wine producer Penfolds held an event at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden to celebrate the career of the legendary producer Harvey Goldsmith CBE.

  • Jason Boyce
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    BCSC Blog: Hitting the gym and positive vibes

    2011-09-21T10:57:44.690Z

    I arrived up from London on Monday afternoon, registered for the main conference and prepared my material in readiness for the busy day I had on Tuesday.

  • Justin Taylor
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    BCSC Blog: Wagamama for lunch and retailer expansion plans

    2011-09-21T10:39:18.833Z

    I am currently standing in the C&W stand kitchen writing this it’s the only spare and quiet space on the stand!

  • Justin Taylor
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    BCSC Blog: Day One - rumours of Vanilla Ice...

    2011-09-20T09:31:00Z

    After a quiet first couple of hours, giving a sense of opening night at the theatre, the BCSC conference has got off to a fantastic start with a busy first day.

  • Justin Taylor
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    BCSC Blog: Time to Evolve

    2011-09-19T02:13:16.870Z

    Like 1800 other people, I am heading up to Manchester again for the BCSC Conference & Exhibition. It’s always a great event, pitched somewhere between academic and educational excellence, marketing and sales excess and party extreme.

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    BCSC Blog: getting ready for the main event

    2011-09-16T10:10:00Z

    We’re all gearing up this end for the BCSC Conference next week. It will be strange going to the conference in September rather than November as in previous years but hopefully there could be a prospect of signing retailers up before the end of the year!

  • Blogs

    Internet shopping could help, not harm, the high street

    2011-09-08T10:21:00Z

    With Mary Portas on the case to save our nation’s high streets, there is already a lot of defeatist talk in the property and retail industries about what her report can meaningfully achieve. But the naysayers who claim the high street is beyond redemption should check out their local corner ...

  • Mary Portas
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    Paxman on Portas

    2011-09-08T02:12:00Z

    Did you catch Jeremy Paxman’s Newsnight on Tuesday evening this week? They did a piece on the future of the UK high street and caught up with Mary Portas on her travels around the UK, albeit that she appeared to find the intervention of the BBC’s roving reporter rather irritating!

  • Notting Hill
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    Notting Hill Carnival provides cultural answers to the riots

    2011-09-07T12:02:54.890Z

    Londoners have been impressed with the success of the Notting Hill Carnival; the event was cited as an opportunity for London to demonstrate it is still capable of celebrating the city, and its multicultural personality, despite the recent riots.

  • Paris - Moyan Brenn
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    Are we Brits finally learning to love all that’s French?

    2011-09-06T12:29:24.460Z

    Over the last 12 months, London has seen record levels of demand from international retailers of which a significant amount has been from French brands, drawn to London by the attraction of expanding in a new market alongside their domestic expansion.

  • Blogs

    Turbulent times ahead and the impact on graduates

    2011-08-22T14:19:00Z

    The current economic turbulence is the most frightening thing for the property industry at present and there are entirely external factors having surprising consequences on all property professionals.

  • Marco Pierre White
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    Being British with Marco Pierre White

    2011-08-12T10:08:00Z

    I had arranged to meet Marco Pierre White at Wheeler of St. James’s on St. James’s Street to discuss pubs, beer and wine.

  • Blogs

    Our sometimes archaic rights to light laws

    2011-08-04T17:16:00Z

    I am pleased to see that the Law Commission announced it will include rights of light in its next programme of potential recommendations for reform.

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    RICS could be the Residential way forward!

    2011-07-27T14:12:14.453Z

    I welcomed, with open arms, the new AssocRICS for Residential Managers and even more so the common sense solution that Members of the Institute of Residential Property Management (MIRPM) can transfer their qualification across.