All Leader articles – Page 14
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Insight
A cosmic balancing act
It feels as though there’s a bit of a cosmic balancing act – or maybe it’s just a good old battle between good and evil – going on at the moment.
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News
The battle may be over…
Will the grass prove Greener on the other side of the Arcadia CVA vote?
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Insight
PW Perspectives: industry responds to changing needs
Welcome to the summer edition of Perspectives, Property Week ’s series of thought leadership essays from key industry figures.
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Insight
Landlords must fight back
At the Investment Property Forum annual dinner three years ago, ex-Patisserie Valerie chairman Luke Johnson delivered one of the most lacklustre speeches I’ve ever heard.
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Insight
It’s not about us, it’s about you
I received a complaint via email last week. There is nothing particularly unusual in that.
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Insight
Has modular’s time come?
Modular homes have long been hailed as the potential solution to the UK’s housing crisis.
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Insight
Time for reality check on NAVs
I have never met Colm Lauder, but I reckon we would get on well.
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Insight
Emergency on Planet Earth
Having written about property for a long time, I’m not shocked by much.
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Insight
Industrial & logistics supplement
In recent months, much has been made of companies taking warehouses to stockpile goods ahead of Brexit, but ask agents and institutional investors and they will tell you it has not quite been the phenomenon it was expected to be .
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Insight
It pays to be best in class
What do you want from your employer? Or perhaps the better question is: what do you expect of it?
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Insight
Actions speak louder than words
JLL should be commended for its decision this week to withdraw from managing nearly £2bn of hotel assets owned by the Sultan of Brunei.
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Insight
Rabbit hutches and stable doors
Jeez. Talk about closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Labour is a bit late to the party with its pledge to end office-to-resi permitted development, isn’t it?
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Insight
The resilience of the residential sector
As retail lurches from crisis to crisis, the residential sector this week demonstrated its extraordinary capacity to resolutely soldier on come what may or, more accurately, despite May.
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Insight
We need to mind the gap
It is a concept people think they understand, that a good percentage (but arguably not a big enough one) believe in fervently and that depressingly, we are making very little, if any, progress on.
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Insight
Ireland supplement: lots of activity in Dublin and Belfast
Dublin’s office market continues to go from strength to strength. Last year, take-up hit 346,000 sq m, the highest ever recorded. This was driven by a mammoth hike in the average letting size of 50% in the last five years . And this, in turn, has been driven by an ...
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Insight
Retailers misjudge landlords’ resolve
And so it continues. As we reveal this week, William Hill has written to landlords demanding 50% rent cuts.
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Insight
A good time to bet on retail
Has the bloodied and bowed retail sector finally bottomed out – or does it still have further to fall? With the retailer casualties continuing to pile up, the likes of Nick Leslau think the latter , and you have to wonder when you hear that the bookies expect to offload ...
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Insight
Brexit silence is deafening
Two decades ago, I spent a couple of years writing dire warnings about planes falling out of the sky, the army keeping the peace on the streets and the lights going out across the world.