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  September brings some setbacks with it

  2020-09-18T00:00:00+01:00By Emma Shone

  It was starting to feel like the end was in sight, wasn’t it? Early September arrived with a distinct back-to-school feeling. (I even saw my neighbour’s teenage son emerge for the first time since March, sporting a crisp-looking uniform.) Footfall was on the up in major cities as the government ...

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  Diversity and the office matter

  2020-09-11T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  I did not want to write this column. As a mixed-race person (half Trinidadian, half English), I am both black and white, but in the increasingly polarised debate over race, I am seen as neither, someone without enough skin in the game either way, the perennial outsider looking in – ...

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  Home truths about WFH

  2020-09-04T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  God, I miss the office. I even miss the four-hour round-trip commute. Yes, things are that bad – and I am one of the lucky ones.

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  Reasons to be cheerful

  2020-08-28T00:00:00+01:00By Sebastian McCarthy

  Whisper it quietly – are things starting to look up?

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  UK industry on red alert

  2020-08-07T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  The siege mentality induced by Brexit and exacerbated by Covid-19 has made us fearful of almost everything – returning to work, going to the shops, travelling abroad. It has also made us fearful of almost everyone, especially if they’re not British.

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  Councils count the cost

  2020-07-31T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  Don’t try to catch a falling knife, the saying goes. Unfortunately, local authorities (LAs) have not heeded the advice, not when it comes to investment in commercial property, anyway.

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  Light at the end of a long tunnel

  2020-07-24T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  Do my eyes deceive me? Is that light I spy at the end of the tunnel? This week, there was cause for cautious optimism on several fronts.

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  It’s do or die time on rent

  2020-07-17T00:00:00+01:00By Sebastian McCarthy

  It’s the rent, stupid. Landlords of retail property are in despair across the country, as much of their income dries up.

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  There’s not much to drink to

  2020-07-10T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  Super Saturday wasn’t as super as some expected or, rather, hoped. The iffy weather didn’t help, but that wasn’t the real issue.

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  Winners past and present

  2020-07-03T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  It has been a week of extraordinary highs and lows.

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  Hanged, drawn and quartered

  2020-06-26T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  It has been a week of decidedly mixed fortunes for the retail and hospitality sectors.

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  Everything’s changing, but real estate is changing with it

  2020-06-26T00:00:00+01:00By Emma Shone

  In the last issue of Perspectives in March, experts wrote about the importance of Mipim and its networking opportunities. Just over three months later, the concept of rubbing shoulders in Café Roma and drinking rosé in yacht cabins is a distant dream – and just think of all that hand-shaking.

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  Start of recovery… or the end?

  2020-06-19T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  Social distancing? What social distancing? The review of the 2m rule was already looking moot when people started hitting the beaches, attending underground raves and participating in protests.

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  Slow down and fast forward

  2020-06-12T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  While many of us have adjusted to a slower pace of life in lockdown (walking and cycling instead of taking the car or public transport, cooking with family rather than dining out or eating fast food, doing the gardening ourselves instead of paying someone else to do it or, in ...

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  What next for Shaftesbury?

  2020-06-05T00:00:00+01:00By David Parsley

  It’s as if Samuel Tak Lee is in a rush to sell his property assets or something.

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