Property Week Leader & Blogs

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  This will define us all

  2020-04-03T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson

  I had thought we would see more companies start to “buy the dip” by now. But even those with the cash to splash must first make difficult decisions, as every business must, about pay cuts, furloughing staff, even making people redundant.

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  Life in lockdown

  2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  There have been many dire warnings over the years about the threat of a global pandemic, but who seriously thought that when World War III broke out it would not pit nation against nation in nuclear Armageddon but the entire globe against a common enemy of a rampant and deadly ...

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  We are here for you

  2020-03-20T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  OK, strictly speaking, that’s not true. We’re not physically here in Croydon. Like the rest of the UK, indeed global, workforce, we are adapting to the new norm that is working, or trying to work, from home (other halves, kids and pets permitting), so we are all over the place, ...

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  Budget 2020 offers no retail cure

  2020-03-13T00:00:00+00:00By Guy Montague-Jones

  Retail landlords are looking nervously to Asia, where measures to contain the spread of coronavirus have hit the retail sector hard.

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  There are bigger issues that transcend coronavirus

  2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  This week’s issue was supposed to go to Mipim. That’s why it has an international focus. Like everyone else who was going, we have had to make some last-minute changes to our plans.

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  North West: plenty to be positive about

  2020-03-05T11:38:00+00:00By Guy Montague-Jones

  It says a lot about the state of today’s property market in the North West that much of this supplement is dedicated to stories about new development.

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  Could Cannes be canned?

  2020-02-27T11:25:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  The fear surrounding coronavirus is spreading faster than the virus itself – and could ultimately have more serious implications.

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  Time for property to listen and learn

  2020-02-27T00:00:00+00:00By Emma Shone

  You don’t need me to tell you how valuable Mipim is as an opportunity to talk to clients.

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  Be kind. Be the solution

  2020-02-21T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  Will people suddenly start to ‘be kind’ in the national press and on social media in the wake of Caroline Flack’s suicide? I’m not holding out much hope, but I’d like to think so.

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  The future of industrial and logistics looks bright

  2020-02-21T00:00:00+00:00By Mitchell Labiak

  What will the next decade bring? That’s the question we’re trying to answer in our first industrial and logistics supplement of the 2020s.

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  Don’t believe the HS2 hype

  2020-02-14T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  What an HS2 hullabaloo… err, not.

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  Is Emerald Isle losing its lustre?

  2020-02-07T00:00:00+00:00By Guy Montague-Jones

  When Green REIT put itself up for sale last April, a leading REIT chief executive told me, somewhat euphemistically, that it was “a sign”.

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  Time for radical change

  2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00By Julie Hirigoyen

  Statistics suggest that more than 75% of us will have abandoned our new year’s resolutions by now. Yet this month also signifies the start of a new decade – one framed by the race to achieve the UN’s 17 globally accepted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, which together form ...

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  Will we see a Brexit bounce?

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

  This time next week, we will be officially leaving the EU – or, more accurately, entering a fraught transition period with a frighteningly tight deadline.

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  Can retail rise from the ashes?

  2020-01-17T00:00:00+00:00By Liz Hamson

  Last year was the worst on record for UK retail and the new year has not exactly got off to a flying start.

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