All Leader articles – Page 16
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Business – but not as usual – as Brexit crisis deepens
Addressing the CBI Conference on Monday was one of Theresa May’s easier tasks of late. The prime minister got a warm reception from business leaders, who prefer her Brexit deal to the alternative. As the CBI’s director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “It isn’t perfect but it takes the cliff edge ...
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PW Perspectives: wide ranging themes will shape industry
As 2018 draws to a close and the industry prepares to take a well-deserved break over the Christmas holidays, many will be taking the time to reflect on the past 12 months and look ahead to 2019.
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Why flexible is becoming everyone’s friend
As Property Week went to press on Wednesday, the cabinet had just approved the draft Brexit deal. Will this bring greater clarity? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Industrial and logistics: investors and occupiers continue to pile in
At a time when the UK’s industrial and logistics market is typified by high demand and lack of supply, it’s little wonder that rents are sky high.
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It’s not all bad news for the high street
More retail doom and gloom made the headlines this week. The latest depressing addition to the relentless flow of bad news was that struggling fashion retailer New Look plans to close up to 100 stores. The company’s executive chairman Alistair McGeorge couldn’t have been more downbeat in his assessment of ...
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Retail Supplement: riding out the retail storm
The retail market is a long way from finding a balance in which bricks-and-mortar retail thrives alongside ecommerce.
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Hammond dashes high street’s high hopes
‘Malities, malities, malities, malities – that’s the four malities over.’ Now that’s a funny joke.
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Will Saudi investment be banned? Should it be?
The most startling image in the news this week has to be that of Jamal Khashoggi’s son Salah shaking the hand of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday three weeks after his father’s brutal murder. What must he have been thinking as he met the man allegedly ...
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Hammond must use Budget to help rescue retail
Just as you thought things couldn’t get any worse in the retail sector, they do… much worse.
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Not so caught between a rock and a hard Brexit
Is the industry just sensibly keeping calm and carrying on as Michel Barnier continues to lob brickbats at Theresa May’s Brexit plans – or fiddling (increasingly nervously) while Rome burns?
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International investors still find UK industrial attractive
At first glance, the data from Real Capital Analytics on European real estate investment looks ominous. Investment levels in the first half of 2018 were 9% down on the same period in 2017. And worryingly, the industrial and logistics sector, which had been the belle of the investment ball in ...
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The shed of the future?
What will the shed of the future look like? Will it be partially – or even totally – underground? Will it take the form of a ‘shedscraper’ several storeys high? Or will it be long and thin, allowing landlords to slice and dice the space depending on occupier requirements?
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Diversity is about more than slapping ‘fe’ on to ‘male’
As a Cambridge graduate, I was depressed and, frankly, embarrassed at how lowly the university ranked on social diversity in The Sunday Times ’ latest Good University Guide – with only Oxford scoring lower.
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It's not all doom and gloom for the retail and leisure sector
Few property landlords have had as tumultuous a time in 2018 as owners of retail, food and beverage (F B) and leisure assets.
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Ten years after the world turned upside down
As with 9/11 and, if you are longer of tooth, the assassination of JFK, most of us remember where we were when Lehman Brothers collapsed. It is one of those seismic events that are branded like a hot iron into the collective psyche.
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A letter to the new housing minister
Dear Kit, thank you for joining us at the RESI Convention in Wales this week. We are delighted that you have chosen to give your first major public address to the sector as housing minister at our event.
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BTR needs rocket fuel to make a real difference
Data from Savills and the British Property Federation on the growth of build-to-rent (BTR) sounds impressive.
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Why London’s becoming a no-go zone for investors
Who said it was grim up north? Whereas last year was all about London investment as foreign investors piled into the capital to snap up trophy assets such as the Cheesegrater and the Walkie-Talkie, this year is all about regional investment.
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Ireland supplement: two decades on from Good Friday Agreement
The Good Friday Agreement was signed two decades ago and what a 20 years it has been since. The end of ‘the Troubles’ meant Northern Ireland’s property market was suddenly open for business, prompting a flurry of deals and development.
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Are councils venturing too far from home?
I will happily venture outside my comfort zone if I think I’m up to it and it’s worth it, but let’s just say there are three good reasons I will never undertake a triathlon. I have to seriously question, therefore, the wisdom of councils venturing beyond their skill sets and ...