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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.
Winners past and present
2020-07-03T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
It has been a week of extraordinary highs and lows.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
The end of the Atkins plan?
2020-05-28T14:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
It had been coming (and critics would say he had it coming). The only surprise is that it did not happen sooner.
Going above and beyond
2020-05-22T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
Mental Health Awareness Week will have resonated more than usual this year for many of us as we struggle to cope with Covid-19.
At a climate crossroads
2020-05-15T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
What might have been. In January, 2020 was shaping up to be a transformative year for the climate agenda. Inspired by cataclysmic floods and fires, the Extinction Rebellion and the stirring rhetoric of Greta Thunberg, the industry finally seemed to have woken up to the gravity of the situation and ...
The back to work minefield
2020-05-07T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
The odds are if you have not been struck down by coronavirus, you will have caught coronaphobia.
The long road to recovery
2020-05-01T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
You can see why conspiracy theorists are having a field day over Covid-19. None of the global health crises of the past century or so have turned into global economic ones. Why this one? Some sinister force must be at work.
Final cost is anyone’s guess
2020-04-24T00:00:00+01:00By Guy Montague-Jones
The latest rent and service charge collection data makes for pretty grim reading.
Guide to law
2020-04-21T16:25:00+01:00By Simon Creasey
‘Unprecedented’ doesn’t really cut it.
The battle for survival
2020-04-17T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
Normally, it is a case of survival of the fittest. Not this time. With the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting that the economy could shrink 35% by June and the International Monetary Fund starkly warning that the global economy faces its biggest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, ...

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