All Leader articles – Page 13
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Are property disruptors running into trouble?
The list of disruptors struggling to live up to their hype or burning through cash at an alarming rate with no obvious path to profitability is growing increasingly long.
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Industrial & logistics supplement November 2019
The industrial and logistics market has slowed, but there is still plenty of growth in pockets.
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A not-so-merry Christmas for retail
With Bonfire Night out of the way, all eyes will now be focusing on the run-up to Christmas, but the festive season is not shaping up to be so merry for many in the property sector.
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Will Brexit be the final straw for struggling property firms?
I want to be sanguine about the ongoing political omnishambles, but I’m struggling.
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Will SoftBank’s rescue plan for WeWork work?
Occasionally, there is good reason to throw good money after bad.
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On the cusp of social revolution?
There are tales of long, drawn-out developments and then there is the tortuous saga of Elephant and Castle.
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Europe gets Real about Brexit
Remember as a kid hiding behind a cushion when you were watching the scary bits on Dr Who? That’s what it is like watching the latest daily episode in the long-running Brexit saga – minus the cushion or expectation of a happy ending.
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Tories take ownership of housing
There was a distinct sound of fiddling as Rome burned this week, courtesy of some pretty bold – but, in the big scheme of things, trivial – housing announcements at the Conservative Party Conference.
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Black holes and revelations
Parallels have inevitably been drawn between Boris Johnson’s “anti-democratic” attempt to prorogue parliament and Oliver Cromwell’s establishment of the Protectorate government.
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Industrial & Logistics supplement September 2019
The planet is heating up. July was the hottest month on record. And it’s not just the environmentalists who are concerned.
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Will the power of We be enough?
The news this week that WeWork has ‘postponed’ its multi-billion-dollar New York listing will have come as no surprise to Property Week readers.
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PW Perspectives: Autumn 2019
Welcome to the 13th issue of Perspectives, Property Week’s collection of thought leadership essays from experts across the real estate sector.
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Meet the RESI A-Team
I love it when a plan comes together. When we launched our inaugural search for the RESI Trailblazers last year, we went all out to make it as diverse a list as we could.
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When times are bad, do good
Picked your jaw up from the floor yet? No, me neither. The image of the week has to be rebel Tory MP Phillip Lee crossing the floor to take his seat on the opposition benches as PM Boris Johnson addressed the House of Commons.
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How to survive the new term
It’s back to school soon and nobody is deluding themselves that anything other than an extremely challenging term lies ahead.
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The benefit of Hines sight
If you have read a newspaper of late, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Brexit is the only issue in town
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The calm before the storm
Have you noticed that more people seem to be on holiday, and for longer, this summer than usual?
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The big open-ended question
Open-ended property funds were back in the news last week after it emerged that outflows had picked up in July. To me, the remarkable thing is not that the growing threat of a no-deal Brexit has sparked a fresh round of redemptions, it is that more than three years on ...
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The only way is up… baby
Funny things words. When I was at school, being described as a disruptive influence was not a compliment.
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The blond bombshell lands
We’re not living in an age when the mighty are falling.We’re living in one in which the puny are rising.