Leader – Page 16
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InsightThe industry’s darkest – and finest – hours of 2018
So here we are, at the end of 2018, bloody but still unbowed…
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InsightA radical rethink of the high street is needed
There are some turds you cannot polish, however skilled you are in that department. The Brexit deal is one of them. Others, however, can be buffed to a high shine and in some instances, on closer inspection, are revealed not to be turds at all – but merely in deep ...
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InsightBusiness – 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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InsightPW 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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InsightWhy 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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InsightIndustrial 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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InsightIt’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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InsightRetail 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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InsightHammond 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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InsightWill 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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InsightHammond 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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InsightNot 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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InsightInternational 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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InsightDiversity 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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InsightThe 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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InsightTen 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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InsightIt'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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InsightA 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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InsightBTR 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.
