All articles by David Lawson – Page 16
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Insight
The new pick-up joints
E-commerce is driving a shift towards distribution through giant national centres, with goods filtering down through 'local fulfilment nodes' before delivery by van to the doorstep.
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Markets
Online Christmas presence
This Christmas could see traditional shops facing a heavier threat from the dot com companies. David Lawson finds out what lies in store for surviving e-tailers and conventional retailers as they compete for the season s riches
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News
Oliver twists Teesland
A bluff Yorkshireman and a City wizard are plotting to turn the troubled property sector on its head by creating a property company that sells its skills not its assets.
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Markets
Spooked into action
David Lawson reveals how the hi-tech big bang has affected DTZ Debenham Tie Leung
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News
Industry unimpressed with government words on RDAs
RDAs must wait to discover what funds will back Prescott's vision of a strengthened role for regions
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News
BID revitalisation US style is years away
Minister says that Urban White Paper will not commit government to any one option
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Markets
Going great guns
Two government reports published in the last three weeks highlight the value of surplus military and hospital land and looks at what has been achieved so far
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Markets
Social climbers
The low-risk nature of social housing has attracted vast institutional investment, enabling local authorities to transfer their housing to new landlords.
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Markets
Plug and play today
Serviced office operators now provide more than just office space; they have to keep abreast of the latest IT developments in order to provide the most up-to-date technology available for clients.
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Insight
Beating off comp-e-tition
The internet, for so long seen as a threat to retailers, may be less of a problem than was feared. Property Week reports on how retail property can stave off e-commerce
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Professional
The E-Team
A fortnight ago, Chesterton gave a group of under-30s the power to determine its IT strategy.
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News
Ashtenne's hands-on stylehelps record profit rises
Tiny property company eyes the potential of 'undermanaged' industrial stock
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Insight
Scope for service
How can property companies lose their reputation as dinosaurs? Perhaps technology holds the key to the reinvention of the industry, especially when applied to tenant services.
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Insight
Are you being served?
Maps of the hi-tech cables that feed the multi-million pound IT companies are obsessively guarded.A report on the race to locate as close as possible to the secret subterranean lifelines
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Markets
Tomorrow's world
If you want to attract today's hi-tech tenants, building a business park can be almost as involved as building the Starship Enterprise, says David Lawson
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Markets
Cluster bomb
Government policy on whether business parks should encourage similar companies to cluster together is confused. David Lawson reports on the difficulty of encouraging growth sectors while upholding the planning regime
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Markets
Mobile home
When mobile phone giant Vodafone merged with US firm Airtouch, Newbury braced itself to lose its biggest occupier. However, the recent Mannesmann takeover has secured Vodafone s future in the Berkshire town.
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Insight
Future shop
Supermarkets have spent years building huge superstores in which to pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap. As more customers choose to surf the aisles with virtual shopping trolleys, Property Week examines the implications
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Markets
Ring in the changes
Call centres could be replaced by e-mail and automated internet services in the near future. In the meantime, companies are finding it pays to invest in staff facilities.
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Markets
Brought to book
Banks are under fire for stifling growth in the serviced office sector, due to miserly valuations. David Lawson reports on research carried out by the University of Reading
