Leader – Page 18
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Fears 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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BTR 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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Is the big four poised to become the big three?
Could the battle for retail survival get any more intense?
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Labour promises much but could it ever deliver?
The fate of a couple of landmark deals is set to be decided next week when we head to the polls for the local elections.
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Experience required: Retail, Leisure & Hotels
Retailers and retail landlords have been banging on about experiential for years.
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Why Hammerson’s just not that into intu anymore
That was some U-turn from Hammerson. Just weeks ago, it was talking up its retail portfolio in a bid to KO the Klépierre bid, noting that values had fallen by less than 1% despite the recent CVAs and retail failures and insisting that tenant demand was strong for its centres. ...
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Living in the Upside Down...
It sometimes feels as though we are living in a parallel universe like the Upside Down, the alternate dimension in cult sci-fi series, Stranger Things .
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I mind the gender pay gap. But do you?
Are we witnessing the end of the pale, male and stale era? Nah, probably not – not in property, anyway. But we could just be witnessing the beginning of the end.
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Ireland supplement: Ireland's economy, population and office markets on the up
There is little that has caused Irish property developers more consternation than the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).
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At halfway point is Brexit glass half empty or half full?
What’s going on people? You’re usually such a relentlessly optimistic bunch!
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Klépierre bid throws Hammerson’s future intu doubt
Hammerson’s shareholders have a choice to make. Do they put their trust in chief executive David Atkins and push on with the £3.4bn takeover of rival intu, or do they force him to consider the offer from French shopping giant Klépierre? For me it has to be the latter.
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Not such a jolly old boys’ club outing
I am sure I am not the only one who flew out to Nice this week feeling a good deal of trepidation mixed in with the usual nervous excitement ahead of Mipim.
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Carry on investing… but not carrying on
Even the most ardent of Leavers would surely not have predicted this. On Wednesday, Donald Tusk scorned Theresa May’s “pick and mix” Brexit plan, warning that there would be “negative economic consequences”.
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Revival instinct – North West focus
The North West region, buoyed by the ‘northern powerhouse’ and the ever-increasing attraction of Manchester as a place to live and work, is going from strength to strength.
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Snowmaggedon. Bring it on!
Oh to be a kid again. As I fired up the laptop and my two mobiles on Tuesday, I cast a look ruefully at the children outside throwing snowballs at each other and revelling in a day off school.
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PW Perspectives – Mipim 2018
As half the property world come together in the (hopefully) sunnier climes of southern France for Mipim 2018, one common theme that is bound to be discussed at length in the Palais de Festivals and up and down Boulevard de la Croisette is innovation.
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Has Raab handed Capco an Earls Court escape route?
Some may view housing minister Dominic Raab’s comments on Earls Court this week as a potentially fatal attack on Capital Counties’ plans for the west London site.
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Have shed developers lost their taste for spec build?
Speculative development has long been the barometer by which developer confidence is measured.
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What’s gone wrong at JLL and where does it go now?
It is said revenue is vanity while profit is sanity. There must be a lot of mirrors and people losing their minds in JLL’s UK HQ then.
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Are we witnessing the rebirth of the high street?
It wasn’t so long ago that we were repeatedly being told of the demise of the high street – and the reports of its death were not an exaggeration, as anyone who lives in a town whose lifeblood was sucked out seemingly overnight by a new out-of-town shopping centre knows ...