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NewsBack to WFH? WTF?
Can you hear it? The loud clattering of wooden wheels accelerating downhill? That is the sound of the handcart we are all going to hell in, that is.
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September brings some setbacks with it
It was starting to feel like the end was in sight, wasn’t it? Early September arrived with a distinct back-to-school feeling. (I even saw my neighbour’s teenage son emerge for the first time since March, sporting a crisp-looking uniform.) Footfall was on the up in major cities as the government ...
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Diversity and the office matter
I did not want to write this column. As a mixed-race person (half Trinidadian, half English), I am both black and white, but in the increasingly polarised debate over race, I am seen as neither, someone without enough skin in the game either way, the perennial outsider looking in – ...
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Home truths about WFH
God, I miss the office. I even miss the four-hour round-trip commute. Yes, things are that bad – and I am one of the lucky ones.
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UK industry on red alert
The siege mentality induced by Brexit and exacerbated by Covid-19 has made us fearful of almost everything – returning to work, going to the shops, travelling abroad. It has also made us fearful of almost everyone, especially if they’re not British.
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Councils count the cost
Don’t try to catch a falling knife, the saying goes. Unfortunately, local authorities (LAs) have not heeded the advice, not when it comes to investment in commercial property, anyway.
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Light at the end of a long tunnel
Do my eyes deceive me? Is that light I spy at the end of the tunnel? This week, there was cause for cautious optimism on several fronts.
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It’s do or die time on rent
It’s the rent, stupid. Landlords of retail property are in despair across the country, as much of their income dries up.
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There’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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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.
