All articles by John Welsh
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InsightThe king is dead…
So I'm off. After four-and-A half years on Property Week, I am to edit Travel Trade Gazette, a weekly newspaper for the travel industry that is also owned by CMPi. I leave with the inevitable excitement of a new challenge but also a sense of loss. I have really liked ...
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Members' revolt tells RICS it's time to make cuts
Enough RICS members look set to come together to threaten the institution's sumptuous Great George Street headquarters in Westminster with an extraordinary general meeting. Its agenda will be a reversal of the increase in subscription fees and the appointment of an 'ombudsman' to keep the executive in line with members' ...
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An offer they could refuse
I felt frustrated. There was little information and even fewer leads. I cruised the bars and hotels for a day and then, as I ate my breakfast, I had my first and only break. The British Property Federation had come to town, led by Dave 'the Scot' Hunter. He ...
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Down these mean streets a property man must go
It had been a long, hot summer. Joggers were still running along the beaches of Bournemouth, passing the occasional sunbather determined to eke out a tan.
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News
Deutsche weighs up regional moves
Real estate chief Ward considers moving back office staff out of London
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If a company cuts too much, it will cut out its heart
You would have enjoyed meeting CoreNet’s Bruce Russell. I sat next to him at lunch during the corporate real estate network’s conference in Amsterdam earlier this week. He painted a picture of his life in retirement on America’s east coast. After a career with Kodak, where he became vice-president, he ...
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NewsMyers appointed to South Bank board
Mountgrange chairman to inject property expertise to London arts committee
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Online
Myers appointed to South Bank board
Martin Myers has been appointed as property and funding tsar on the South Bank board in an attempt to kick-start the redevelopment of the South Bank of the River Thames.
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Insight
A lively discussion with a minister who likes to listen
It is rare for the world of development to be upbeat, let alone optimistic, about the government's proposed reforms of the planning system. But following a meeting earlier this week, there is a sense that the government might just be listening to some of the industry's concerns while accelerating its ...
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As the recovery begins, the vultures begin to circle
The spectre of the vulture fund has suddenly returned
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The millions who'll pay for government give-and-take
It looks like some good news at last for small occupiers
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DIY stores will not deliver a hammer blow to PPG6
Travis Perkins' wood yard at Paddington is an extraordinary place for a white collar worker like myself
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Insight
A historic split in the investment market
The investment market has begun to show signs of a split in both sentiment and substance
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Government exodus will be tough but necessary
Sir Michael Lyons' investigation into the increasing number of government departments taking prime office space in central London has already put a temporary halt to the activity. Now it looks set to become permanent
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An undeserving victim of the split-capital scandal
It's no secret that the sale of Aberdeen Property Investment has taken 10 months
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The challenges posed by property's biggest merger
We are on the verge of the biggest company merger in the history of property services.
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Owner-occupiers and their property preoccupations
It seems so logical: small businesses ask their pension fund trustees to buy an office, shop or factory and lease it back to them
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New Street is old hat and must be replaced
Finding your way around Birmingham's New Street has always been a hell of a problem
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Without landlords, BIDS are dead on arrival
Business Improvement Districts are dead. Local government minister Nick Raynsford effectively buried them last week with a letter to Land Securities chief executive and former British Property Federation president Ian Henderson
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Agents come up smelling of roses
You can't turn a page of Property Week nowadays without reading about Rupert Clarke
