All Leader articles – Page 17
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InsightWill Ashley’s Direct approach work for House of Fraser?
The ‘will he or won’t he?’ question had been swirling around Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley for weeks. Some thought he would splash the cash to protect his shareholding, others that he would sit on his hands and do nothing.
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InsightDigital-only issue: RESI, steady, go
Has there ever been a more exhilarating – or terrifying – time to be working in the residential sector? I can’t think of one. The sector has had to deal with challenge after challenge this year: the fourth housing minister in 12 months, the chaos caused by Brexit, the ailing ...
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Capco’s Earls Court duel becomes a matter of honour
While neither side in the battle for Earls Court has directly accused the other of lying, they have near as damn it.
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InsightIs defence really best form of attack for Hammerson?
So what to make of Hammerson’s strategy update? It was always going to be tricky for chief executive David Atkins to identify the opportunity amidst the chaos of the abandoned merger with intu and rejected takeover bid from Klépierre.
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InsightIntu's results underscore retail sector woes
Hammerson shareholders will be breathing a sigh of relief this morning that the company abandoned its £3.4bn merger with intu.
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InsightAre we at the dawn of an even more anti-property era?
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… if only.
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InsightLet’s hope Malthouse isn’t yet another housing mayfly
Amid the football fever, Brexit brouhaha and Trump trashing, most Brits will have barely registered that the knock-on effect of David Davis’s resignation as Brexit secretary was the appointment of Kit Malthouse, the fourth – yes, fourth – new housing minister in 12 months.
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InsightShort selling highlights need for fresh retail thinking
Short sellers have made some pretty astute bets against property firms in recent years.
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InsightThe death of retail has been greatly exaggerated
In a market where even the venerated John Lewis Partnership can’t turn a profit, who would want to be a retail landlord?
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InsightAn anniversary no one is celebrating
Who would have thought that the two years since the EU referendum would be so painful and politically humiliating?
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InsightAre we on the brink of a new industrial revolution?
Who would have thought that we Brits, a nation of folk who not so long ago scorned US-style customer service – proudly preferring service with a snarl to anything with a smile – would become such converts to the service culture?
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InsightHeathrow’s third runway is not off the ground yet
Whoa, hold your horses – or should that be: leave those chocks where they are? Transport minister Chris Grayling may have rubber-stamped a third runway at Heathrow, but it hasn’t been given final clearance for take-off yet and might not be for some time.
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InsightPW Perspectives: wellness and sustainability climbing the agenda
Welcome to the summer edition of Perspectives, Property Week ’s series of thought leadership essays from key industry figures.
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InsightThere’s never been a better time for British Landsec
OK, so it’s not a new topic of conversation, but it’s one of the property industry’s most intriguing ones, and I make no apology for returning to it.
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InsightThere’s nothing voluntary about CVAs for landlords
The only surprising thing about the news earlier this week that Marks Spencer plans to shut more than a hundred stores is that it did not resort to the current vehicle du jour, the company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
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InsightHyperbole does proptech firms no favours
The first mention of proptech in Property Week was in November 2014, when we asked: what exactly is proptech and just why are its proponents so excited about its potential?
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InsightFears mounting over industrial and logistics bubble
The industrial and logistics sector is having quite a moment. Driven partly by insatiable demand from online retailers and attracting droves of investors as a result, the sector has gone from strength to strength in the past few months.
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InsightBTR is not the panacea to all the housing sector’s ills
Is it just me or is anyone else starting to get a distinct whiff of the emperor’s new clothes from build-to-rent?
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InsightIs the big four poised to become the big three?
Could the battle for retail survival get any more intense?
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InsightExperience required: Retail, Leisure & Hotels
Retailers and retail landlords have been banging on about experiential for years.
