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NewsThere’s not much to drink to
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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Hanged, drawn and quartered
It has been a week of decidedly mixed fortunes for the retail and hospitality sectors.
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Insight
Everything’s changing, but real estate is changing with it
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?
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
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?
It’s as if Samuel Tak Lee is in a rush to sell his property assets or something.
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The end of the Atkins plan?
It had been coming (and critics would say he had it coming). The only surprise is that it did not happen sooner.
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Going above and beyond
Mental Health Awareness Week will have resonated more than usual this year for many of us as we struggle to cope with Covid-19.
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At a climate crossroads
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 ...
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The back to work minefield
The odds are if you have not been struck down by coronavirus, you will have caught coronaphobia.
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The long road to recovery
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.
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Final cost is anyone’s guess
The latest rent and service charge collection data makes for pretty grim reading.
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The battle for survival
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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Online
The worst Good Friday
I think we can all agree that Good Friday is anything but this year. Aside from the obvious – the grim escalation in the number of deaths as we approach the expected peak of the Covid-19 pandemic – there are the horrendous economic, social and personal ramifications of this unprecedented ...
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This will define us all
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
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
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
Retail landlords are looking nervously to Asia, where measures to contain the spread of coronavirus have hit the retail sector hard.
