Leader – Page 7
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A capital example of recovery
Give me half a chance and I’ll tell you that I’m from Bristol. Not that you wouldn’t notice. My accent gives me away in seconds. Even though I moved to London three and a half years ago, the West Country brogue is still there.
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I&L space shortage points to an uncertain future
Over the past few months, the national media has been full of stories about shortages. Energy, HGV drivers, supermarket products, petrol… you name it, Britain is short of it. Another shortage that hasn’t made the national headlines, but is being closely monitored by the property industry, is that of industrial ...
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Time to be bold
Fortune favours the bold, so they say. And, in this edition of Perspectives, there is a fair share of bold ideas for how businesses in the real estate industry can adapt to the post-Covid environment.
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Why didn’t more cop on to COP?
Last week, I travelled to Glasgow for COP26. As a journalist, I am hardwired to be cynical, to not believe the hype. But COP26 really did make me feel hopeful.
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Allan gets down to business
If anyone was in any doubt that Mark Allan means business, they aren’t any longer.
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A Rishi washy Budget
Buoyed by the UK’s better-than-expected economic growth, Rishi made a big show of dishing out the dosh when he delivered his Autumn Budget, promising to increase spending by a cool £150bn over the course of this parliament.
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COP out on climate and Covid
Great. Just when we thought the doom-mongers might be wrong. This week, clouds started to gather once more on two potentially very stormy weather fronts: the climate and Covid.
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Why London is still calling
When the UK first entered lockdown in March 2020, the impact was nowhere more stark than in London.
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Pandora Papers and the cracks
What’s that I spy? A bear heading into the woods clutching a toilet roll? Sorry, say that again. The Pope is… is Catholic?
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All bets are on
It’s fairly normal to have a healthy dose of cynicism as a journalist – especially after a year and a half of worrying about Covid – but it feels good to be upbeat about life for a change. My lockdown hobbies have all but disappeared and in-person meetings are par ...
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Another winter of discontent
Questions, questions, questions. This week, I chaired a Climate Crisis Challenge Spotlight Event, in collaboration with UKGBC, asking a big one: “How do we turn followship into leadership ahead of COP26?”.
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The end is in sight
Say it quietly: the pandemic is almost over. Vaccination rates are up, people are hugging again and workers are returning to their offices.
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Back to Earth… and the office
Aargh. Just when I thought we’d finally got a secretary of state for housing who vaguely understood the brief…
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The changing face of the logistics market
It’s no secret that the industrial and logistics sector is booming. Take-up in the first half of the year continued to soar and investment activity also sky-rocketed to a new record high of £6bn, according to data from Knight Frank. That’s 54% more than the previous high recorded in H1 ...
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Looking back at 9/11
It doesn’t matter how many times I see footage of the planes striking the Twin Towers, the sight never fails to shock. It is the unsteady angle of attack, terrifying speed and devastating impact, especially of the second plane as it scythes through the South Tower.
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A RESI you can’t afford to miss
The government’s announcement this week of a new £8.6bn funding package to make home ownership a more “realistic and affordable” aspiration for tens of thousands of families is a welcome one. But the devil will be as much in the delivery as the detail.
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What next for PE target Morrisons?
There may be more reasons to buy Morrisons, but only one really counts as far as the private equity players currently circling it are concerned: its £6bn property portfolio.
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The countdown to RESI begins
If you look out the windows of the Property Week office in Croydon, you can see cranes in almost every direction, most of them hoisting building materials up and down residential towers.
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Welcome to the new WFH
I was sure that after 16 months of not being able to take foreign holidays (or domestic ones easily), the whole industry would decamp for at least a fortnight this summer as parts of the market hardest hit by the pandemic picked themselves up off the deck with a view ...
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Will Liverpool walk on?
Few cities currently illustrate the ups and downs of the world of property development quite like Liverpool.