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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 real estate ...
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Tori digs her heels in
Womankind took a step back towards drudgery this week, with trade union zealots vowing to ban high heels in the workplace.As I write – wearing a pair of 3” heeled Post Mistress shoes – I am grinding them into the carpet in silent rage. You certainly won’t see me turning ...
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Tori sniffs out property's drug problem
You might like to think that the property industry hasn’t got a drug problem – but you’re wrong. It cannot be denied that in today’s austere times, most of the heady excesses have gone out of the window, and anyone visibly under-performing at work will come under renewed scrutiny.But when ...
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Wimbledon boosts 'working from home' brigade
Is it sheer coincidence that the start of Wimbledon has coincided with even more of my industry colleagues opting to “work from home”?In happier times, there was simply too much work to do for this mass idling to have been tolerated. Twice this week, I have heard the televised “thwack” ...
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“Have you ever met Alison Carnwath?”
“Have you ever met Alison Carnwath?”Doing my socialite rounds of the property industry over the last fortnight, nearly every woman I have hob-nobbed with has popped this question. Why? Well, for those of you who have been hiding under a rock, Ms Carnwath is the fearsome new chairman of Land ...
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We may be in recession – but that’s no excuse to dress scruffily.
There has been much comment in my office this week about the antics of Nick Leslau and Mike Brown, photographed in last week’s edition of Property Week to promote the launch of their £200m stock market listed property fund, Max Property.So have people been debating whether they have called the ...
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Recession - a great time to have a baby!
on maternity leave, it is very difficult to make a woman redundant
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Tori Turner: Warring couples are battling to split assets thanks to the credit crunch
Spring has finally sprung, but romance is definitely not in the air. I wasn’t surprised to read this week that the number of couples heading for the divorce courts is expected to reach an all-time high as we sink deeper into recession.Let’s face it girls – life is miserable enough ...
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Tori Turner on Wife Spotting
It's a sad but true fact that the credit crunch has put pay to lavish corporate entertainment. I had the choice of going to Mipim this year, but opted not to. Why?I have a feeling that the quality of partying on offer will be so thin, I might actually have ...
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Law of the jungle in office 'sack race'
Calling a friendly acquaintance at a big surveying firm last week, I had a bit of a shock.Despite having dialled her direct line, some numpty picked up the phone.Answering my queries with an unadorned, “She’s not here”, my mind was racing.It was nowhere near lunchtime. I hadn’t heard of any ...
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The end of the affair - credit crunch kills sex
one central London office agent I know fibbed to his wife that he was going on a golfing holiday with mates, when he actually spent a week in Portugal balls-deep in a female colleague
