Peter Bill
Peter Bill is a former property editor, journalist, columnist for the Evening Standard from 2007-15 and author of Planet Property. You can follow him on Twitter @peterproperty
NewsBy the way: Peter Bill on Julian Richer’s book on fixing the housing crisis
A signed copy of Julian Richer’s ‘Our Housing Disaster – And What We Can Do About It’ plops through the letterbox, the envelope addressed by the man himself.
NewsBy the way: Peter Bill on David Maxwell and RAD London
One of the jockeys competing in Saturday’s Grand National is developer David Maxwell.
InsightPeter Bill on Landsec and BL management fees
Landsec and British Land are medium-sized companies at best, respectively employing 385 and 356 direct staff in the year to March 2023. Yet Landsec is in the FTSE 100, British Land not far outside.
NewsPeter Bill on Labour’s new housing gameplan
Guardian 9 March: Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet will meet top civil servants in Whitehall before Easter as Labour prepares to form the next government. That post-Easter conversation imagined: Treasury mandarin to DLUHC permanent secretary Sarah Healey: “Anything we need to worry about?”
NewsPeter Bill on how to navigate Mipim
The best meetings are accidental. The best outcomes unexpected.
NewsPeter Bill on the unwritten rules of valuations
Obliging valuers to break up with clients after a decade is a good thing. But, face it, what can alter the power imbalance between payer and those paid for an opinion?
NewsCOMMENT | BY THE WAY: Peter Bill on Gove tampering with the market
Merciless Mike! A man whose actions will benefit the many at the expense of the few.
Insight@peterproperty on extra City office space
Hubris hobbled City of London thinking ahead of the Big Bang in 1986, when financial deregulation sparked an explosion in demand for office space.
News@peterproperty on the future of shopping malls
Landsec boss Mark Allan last week signalled a desire to spend up to £1bn on retail. Half may go on Liverpool One.
News@PeterProperty on the why Savills’ results might be the canary in the coalmine
Expect losses in America and on the continent. Expect profit way down on the £153m in 2022.
News@PeterProperty on the future of the LondonMetric LXi Reit merger
In 2009, British Land retail boss Andrew Jones walked out with two colleagues to set up LondonMetric.
InsightPeter Bill on navigating the road to recovery
“Yesterday may have been the beginning of a slow, and doubtless bumpy, recovery,” said former Knight Frank senior partner Alistair Elliott over breakfast on 15 November.
InsightCarbon counting will barely count
Toward the end of an absorbing performance of the play Frank and Percy, Percy (played by Ian McKellen) admits to Frank (Roger Allam) he is being shunned by his academic peers for daring to suggest fighting climate change is hopeless. Frank, newly widowed, and Percy, newly single, edge into a ...
InsightTwo worlds are starting to turn
Planet property: Peter Bill considers the performance of femail asset managers and shares his thoughts on Comer v Greenwich.
InsightPeter Bill on how home goals bring Labour pains
If Labour wins power next year and can re-tool the compulsory purchase order regime to permit the purchase of tens of thousands of acres of land at existing use value then, yes, it’s possible a start on heralded ‘nationally significant developments’ will be made by the end of its first ...
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InsightThe good ship RICS isn’t about to sink
“There is no such thing as the BBC,” wrote Times columnist Matthew Parris a fair while back, defending ‘Auntie’ from periodic attack. A reminder to those who periodically assault RICS. There’s no corporeal substance into which a knife can be plunged, just a bodiless spirit.
InsightConfusing desire with demand
‘Supply and demand’ definition: the relationship between the quantity of a commodity producers wish to sell at various prices and the quantity that consumers wish to buy.
InsightPeter Bill on the property industry’s nervousness and optimism
Last Thursday lunchtime in the City, Montagu Evans managing partner Rob Bower summed up the mood of the sector as “jittery”. There is reassurance at the mending economic outlook, but jumpiness each time higher-priced money causes a financial fuse to blow, resulting in yet another repossession in a market hardwired ...
