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Fright or flight time

Manchester delegates stranded at Genoa as plane to Mipim aborts landing.

Champions are up for the cup

Property Week charity football tournament is set to take place on 15 May.

Meat in the middle

Vegan restaurant opens opposite the… Worshipful Company of Butchers.

Development is child’s play

What can virtual reality (VR) headsets and Lego bricks teach us about the built environment?

Anyone for desert?

Salmon Developments director gears up for six-day endurance challenge.

Agent P: Mipim days

2019-03-08T12:48:00+00:00

8 March, Skype call to team from rat-hole flat in Nice: “Hello? Hell-bloody-lo! Where are you all?”

Spin Class: Mipim meet-up

2019-03-14T16:13:00+00:00

“See you at Pastis, midi,” reads the text from my colleague Sophie.

This week in... 2004

John Prescott, then deputy prime minister, visited Mipim for the first time.

This week in... 2008

Halifax Bank of Scotland was in exclusive talks to acquire Scottish & Newcastle’s former brewery in Edinburgh for more than £100m to create a huge global headquarters for 6,000 staff.

Former British Land directors Andrew Jones, Valentine Beresford and Mark Stirling revealed plans to float specialist retail property investment firm Metric Property Investments on the London Stock Exchange.