Leader – Page 15
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InsightThe 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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InsightWe 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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InsightIreland 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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InsightRetailers 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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InsightA 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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InsightBrexit 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.
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InsightNo sugar-coating the Brexit pill
You might want to pour yourself a stiff one (or large rosé if in Cannes) before you read this.
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InsightNorth West: time to rejuvenate tired locations
Manchester has long dominated the North West market, and with more major schemes in the pipeline, it shows no sign of slowing down. But where now to develop?
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InsightGuide to Borrowing: navigating the world of real estate finance
Today’s debt market is pretty healthy. Developers and investors have a broad range of lenders to choose from and, so far, there is no sign of a return to the reckless practices that caused so much havoc a decade ago.
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InsightPW Perspectives: the structural changes affecting the industry
With the property world coming together in Cannes for Mipim 2019 just a couple of weeks before Brexit day (if in fact 29 March turns out to be Brexit day), there’s no doubt it will be a topic that is discussed at length in the Palais de Festivals and up ...
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InsightIs Atkins right to up the sales ante?
When Hammerson exchanged contracts to sell a 50% stake in Highcross shopping centre for £236m at the start of October, shareholders would be forgiven for expecting the share price to rise.
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InsightIndustrial and logistics: urban outfits
The industrial and logistics sector continues to be the shining star of the property market. Demand is increasing unabated and rents and asset values keep going up, up and up.
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InsightHigh stakes for sheds and beds
They say necessity is the mother of invention – and boy, is the shortage of land in and around London forcing people to be inventive.
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InsightNothing ventured, nothing gained
With Brexit putting the brakes on the market and retail seemingly in freefall, you’d think that there couldn’t be a worse time to launch a new venture. And yet now, like London buses, three come along at once.
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InsightTime to ditch the optimism?
Property is famously full of relentless optimists. Having written about the sector for years, it has even rubbed off on me.
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InsightBrave bets on retail may pay off
Rob Tincknell’s next move has been eagerly anticipated since he unexpectedly stepped down as chief executive of Battersea Power Station Development Company last spring after a decade in the job.
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InsightLife after the death of May’s deal
This Tuesday, all I wanted to do was stick my fingers in my ears, close my eyes and sing tra-la-la as the Brexit vote pantomime played out complete with gasps from the audience as the extent of the defeat for Theresa May’s deal became apparent. Unfortunately, there is no hiding ...
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InsightA new look for a new year
Cometh the hour, cometh the magazine. If you are feeling a degree of trepidation about the year ahead, console yourself with the knowledge that in this swirling vortex of uncertainty that you find yourselves, there is one certainty: Property Week will be here to help you navigate your way ...
