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  Do or die time for climate

  2021-02-19T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  I thought there was only supposed to be one Blue Monday a year. The 15th of February certainly gave the third Monday in January a run for its money.

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  Is the future for industrial and logistics still bright?

  2021-02-19T00:00:00+00:00By Grace Howarth

  Last year was a record-breaker for the sector as the combination of a global pandemic and looming Brexit sent take-up through the roof.

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  Reset or RIP for retail?

  2021-02-12T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  Everyone (including me) keeps talking about long, dark tunnels, but I am starting to think we’re actually stuck in a very deep hole – one that it may prove impossible for some parts of the market to dig themselves out of.

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  A taxing issue for councils

  2021-02-05T00:00:00+00:00By Mitchell Labiak

  The pandemic has focused minds on a raft of ethical questions: how landlords treat their tenants; what more the industry can do to rise to the climate crisis challenge (launching green bonds, for example, as Atrium European Real Estate has); and how RICS could better have handled its governance crisis. ...

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  Boohoo for Debenhams

  2021-01-29T00:00:00+00:00By Jessica Newman

  If this lockdown ever ends and we are allowed to go shopping again for fun, non-essential things (remember those?), I’m seriously starting to wonder if there will be any shops left on the high street to shop in. The signs are not good.

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  RICS must face the music

  2021-01-22T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  The genie is out of the bottle. The cat is out of the bag. Pandora’s box is open. RICS can no longer avoid its day of reckoning.

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  A right ruckus at RICS

  2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  Oh dear. It is never a good idea to keep sweeping stuff under the carpet when everyone suspects – or knows – there is a problem.

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  Long night’s journey into day

  2021-01-08T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  New Year. New lockdown. Fanf***ingtastic.

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  Thank f*** it’s nearly over

  2020-12-18T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  There can’t be anyone who won’t be happy to see the back of 2020.

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  There are many actors in this tragedy

  2020-12-11T00:00:00+00:00By David Parsley

  It is all too easy to blame larger than life retail ‘tycoons’ like Sir Philip Green for the devastation that has been wrought across our high streets in the past few weeks and years.

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  Tomorrow’s world starts now

  2020-12-04T00:00:00+00:00By Emma Shone

  Well, that lockdown certainly ended with a bang. On the eve of the grand reopening of ‘non-essential’ stores, Philip Green’s Arcadia empire came tumbling down, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t just drag Debenhams down with it.

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  Hi ho silver lining

  2020-11-27T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  The Covid-19 clouds are finally beginning to lift.

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  Lockdown losers and winners

  2020-11-20T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  Forget about the winter of discontent. This has been the year of discontent.

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  Industrial and Logistics supplement November 2020

  2020-11-20T00:00:00+00:00By Simon Creasey

  Almost every part of the property industry has been detrimentally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Food and beverage operators have spent more days closed this year than open, retailers have shuttered stores after going under or entering into CVAs and administration and offices have lain empty during the biggest WFH ...

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  A resounding RESI success

  2020-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

  Some said it was sheer madness to attempt it – and I think I speak for all the Property Week team involved in RESI when I say we were bricking it on Tuesday morning as we prepared to kick off our first fully virtual two-day event during a national lockdown.

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