Leader – Page 6
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NewsMy British Landsec dream fades
It’s that time of year again, when we get to compare two of the UK’s largest REITs that I have often said should consider merging to form a real powerhouse.
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NewsCheckout a new way of working
With Messrs Branson and Musk now offering joyrides into orbit for a mere £200,000 or so, you could be forgiven for thinking that the ‘space race’ is over.
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InsightBack to the ballroom?
Over the past year, the auctions market has more than proved that it can adapt with the times. While the retail sector is still weighing up the high street’s future and the office sector is frantically encouraging employees to return, auction houses have had a whale of a time.
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NewsDisruption on another level
This week, I had the privilege of beginning a short stint as Property Week’s interim editor and, looking at some of the content in this issue, it struck me that the industry mood is changing.
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NewsGoodbye and good luck!
Is the great return to the office finally back on? With Jacob Rees-Mogg on the war path, it probably is for civil servants, but what about everyone else?
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InsightLet the good times roll on a little longer
During my first stint at Property Week in the early 2000s I was given the sheds patch.
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NewsDon’t forget to be awesome
Let’s be honest. The property industry has a pretty poor reputation.
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NewsWhy don’t you mind the gap?
With all the promotions and pay rises dished out by the leading surveying firms in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for thinking that great strides are finally being made in redressing the gender imbalance in the industry’s senior ranks. Sadly, not so.
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NewsThe rise, fall and rise of WeWork
It has been coming. We all knew that as we emerged from the pandemic, businesses would review their workplace needs. Some would revert to what they had prior to Covid. Some would downsize. Others would open satellite offices or take flexible workspace to support a smaller head office.
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NewsMore pain, no gain
May we live in less interesting times. This Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the UK entering lockdown for the first time.
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NewsA return to the dark ages?
I was born in late 1971, so while my memory of coming back from nursery to a dark home is somewhat hazy, I do just about recall it. We had hyper-inflation, a worldwide oil crisis and an unwinnable war against those evil commies. Sound familiar?
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NewsA letter from Ukraine…
It’s Wednesday 23 February. I arrive in Kyiv to cover this phoney war. A war of words. No one believes Vladimir Putin will dare carry out his ludicrous threats of war.
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InsightPredicting the future
Predicting the future is a thankless task. In 2012, not even the best minds in the world would have been able to predict Donald Trump’s presidency, Brexit or a global pandemic.
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NewsA game of Russian roulette
How many times this week have we heard commentators call on the West to meet force with force, as that is all Vladimir Putin understands?
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NewsNow’s the time for radical climate action
People often say ‘the greater the challenge, the greater the opportunity’, particularly in this industry. Not when it comes to the climate emergency, though. ‘The greater the challenge, the greater the threat’ is the more likely refrain.
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NewsLet the good times roll
With the light at the end of the Covid tunnel getting brighter, it seems that barely a day goes by without another piece of positive news from the property industry.
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NewsDownsides to levelling up
There are so many downsides to the Levelling Up White Paper, where to start?
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NewsThere’s always a silver lining
Last year was a record year for property investment, according to the latest data from Gerald Eve. Not that the bigwigs in the industry needed to have their relentless optimism fuelled any further.
