All Leader articles – Page 21
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InsightFailure to act is not an option
So today’s the day we find out what the electorate wants. As Property Week went to press ahead of yesterday’s snap general election, the major parties were understandably focusing on security above all other issues in the wake of a second terror attack in the UK in as many ...
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InsightWill June prove inauspicious for May?
I keep looking across the pond in an attempt to console myself that the political landscape is more chaotic over there than it could ever be here… and then something jaw-dropping happens here that cracks the cocoon.
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InsightAre we doing enough to stop the terrorists?
We all expected it, we all dreaded it and this week we all discovered that despite recent attacks at Westminster and in multiple locations across Europe, we have not yet become desensitised to the horror - some atrocities are simply too shocking.
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InsightWork-life balance: solving the sheds space shortage
The industrial and logistics sector is going great guns - and it has not gone unnoticed by investors and developers.
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InsightFlexible workspace could be a useful weapon for British Land
The concept of a traditional property company launching a flexible workspace brand isn’t entirely new.
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InsightResi sector continues to fight the good fight
What a difference a week makes. This Wednesday, the great and the good of the residential sector gathered at Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane for the RESI Awards 2017.
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InsightMomentum is building behind build-to-rent
What should younger generations make of the baby boomers? At first glance, they appear to be an almost preternaturally generous group.
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InsightWhy leisure is now at the centre
God I feel old! If you had asked me to define competitive socialising, I’d have said it meant going out more than anyone else you know to clubs, pubs and parties (and that a long, long time ago, I had been very competitive).
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InsightCreative endeavours in retail and leisure
The retail and leisure sector is nothing if not inventive.
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InsightSo this lady was for U-turning
Great. Another referendum… sorry, general election. Like many, I’m pretty much with Brenda from Bristol on the surprise announcement. “You’re joking! Not another one,” she proclaimed in a clip that subsequently went viral. “Oh for God’s sake, I can’t stand this.”
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InsightThey wanna play the regeneration game with you
It’s a funny old game, property. You would think that when there is so much nervousness in the market, people would hunker down and stick to low-risk propositions - or taking a leaf out of Henry ‘Shed and Buried’ Cole’s book go for an SPQR, as in ‘small profit, quick ...
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InsightGreen giant: how Ireland went from boom to bust to boom again
Optimism is in the air in Ireland.
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InsightA celebration of triumph over adversity
This week’s Property Awards were attended once again by the crème de la crème of the industry - who once again had to run a gauntlet of protestors to get into the event.
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InsightThe great Brexit paradox
After all the brouhaha that followed the Brexit vote and faux ‘will she or won’t she?’ drama ahead of this week’s triggering of Article 50 (I say faux because only momentarily was there a suggestion it wouldn’t be this week), the actual event was a bit of an anticlimax, wasn’t ...
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InsightCroydon facelift pulls in new wave of investors
Croydon used to be a laughing stock. Seen as a drab, concrete backwater you merely passed through to get to and from Gatwick Airport, it was certainly not a place you would want to live, work or shop in (unless you worked for Property Week , that is, and truthfully, ...
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InsightMood surprisingly relaxed at Mipim
At Mipim, you can usually gauge when the market’s about to hit the skids by the extravagance of the events and number of scantily clad women tottering around.
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InsightWith great power comes great responsibility
It’s that time of year again when half the industry is preparing to decamp to the south of France for the annual jamboree that is Mipim - and the other half is thanking its lucky stars it isn’t.
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InsightNew order: North West powers up
Sir Howard Bernstein’s shoes will not be easy to fill. In his near-20-year tenure as chief executive of Manchester City Council, he has co-ordinated the regeneration of the city core following the IRA bomb blast of 1996 and been hugely successful in attracting investors to what is now the beating ...
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InsightThe towering achievement of an ‘unreasonable man’
Not many people can truly be described as legends. Irvine Sellar can. That is why so many property big hitters - past and present - have paid tribute to him this week following his shock death on Sunday.
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InsightChancellor must heed call on duty as well as business rates
The clamour of voices calling for urgent change to the business rates regime ahead of 1 April, when the new ratings list comes into effect, reached such a crescendo this week that it looks pretty nailed on that there will be some sort of announcement in the Budget on 8 ...
