All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 11
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OnlinePW Power 100: The Event
The wait is nearly over. This Thursday, Property Week will reveal the Power 100, the definitive ranking of the 100 most powerful people in property, sponsored by Dentons and Malcolm Hollis.
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InsightThere’s no method in this madness
Still reeling from the Grenfell Tower tragedy - and where it wasn’t before, the word ‘reeling’ is now apt - we have this week woken up first to the news of another terror attack and then just days later to a toothless Queen’s speech written without the guaranteed backing of ...
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InsightSo many questions after Grenfell Tower tragedy
What an awful quirk of fate that just as Borough Market was observing a minute’s silence in memory of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack 10 days earlier firefighters in another part of London were desperately trying to contain the Grenfell Tower inferno in north Kensington to ...
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InsightFailure to act is not an option
So today’s the day we find out what the electorate wants. As Property Week went to press ahead of yesterday’s snap general election, the major parties were understandably focusing on security above all other issues in the wake of a second terror attack in the UK in as many ...
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InsightWill June prove inauspicious for May?
I keep looking across the pond in an attempt to console myself that the political landscape is more chaotic over there than it could ever be here… and then something jaw-dropping happens here that cracks the cocoon.
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InsightAre we doing enough to stop the terrorists?
We all expected it, we all dreaded it and this week we all discovered that despite recent attacks at Westminster and in multiple locations across Europe, we have not yet become desensitised to the horror - some atrocities are simply too shocking.
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InsightResi sector continues to fight the good fight
What a difference a week makes. This Wednesday, the great and the good of the residential sector gathered at Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane for the RESI Awards 2017.
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InsightWhy leisure is now at the centre
God I feel old! If you had asked me to define competitive socialising, I’d have said it meant going out more than anyone else you know to clubs, pubs and parties (and that a long, long time ago, I had been very competitive).
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InsightSo this lady was for U-turning
Great. Another referendum… sorry, general election. Like many, I’m pretty much with Brenda from Bristol on the surprise announcement. “You’re joking! Not another one,” she proclaimed in a clip that subsequently went viral. “Oh for God’s sake, I can’t stand this.”
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InsightThey wanna play the regeneration game with you
It’s a funny old game, property. You would think that when there is so much nervousness in the market, people would hunker down and stick to low-risk propositions - or taking a leaf out of Henry ‘Shed and Buried’ Cole’s book go for an SPQR, as in ‘small profit, quick ...
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InsightA celebration of triumph over adversity
This week’s Property Awards were attended once again by the crème de la crème of the industry - who once again had to run a gauntlet of protestors to get into the event.
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InsightThe great Brexit paradox
After all the brouhaha that followed the Brexit vote and faux ‘will she or won’t she?’ drama ahead of this week’s triggering of Article 50 (I say faux because only momentarily was there a suggestion it wouldn’t be this week), the actual event was a bit of an anticlimax, wasn’t ...
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InsightCroydon facelift pulls in new wave of investors
Croydon used to be a laughing stock. Seen as a drab, concrete backwater you merely passed through to get to and from Gatwick Airport, it was certainly not a place you would want to live, work or shop in (unless you worked for Property Week , that is, and truthfully, ...
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OnlinePW Power 100: make your power play
It’s time to get your nominations in for the most powerful people in property with the deadline just four days away on 27 March.
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InsightMood surprisingly relaxed at Mipim
At Mipim, you can usually gauge when the market’s about to hit the skids by the extravagance of the events and number of scantily clad women tottering around.
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InsightWith great power comes great responsibility
It’s that time of year again when half the industry is preparing to decamp to the south of France for the annual jamboree that is Mipim - and the other half is thanking its lucky stars it isn’t.
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NewsPW launches Power 100
The property industry is renowned for its dealmakers, entrepreneurs and disruptors. To celebrate the fact, Property Week has teamed up with Dentons and Malcolm Hollis to bring you the Power 100, a ranking of the 100 most powerful people in property.
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InsightThe towering achievement of an ‘unreasonable man’
Not many people can truly be described as legends. Irvine Sellar can. That is why so many property big hitters - past and present - have paid tribute to him this week following his shock death on Sunday.
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InsightChancellor must heed call on duty as well as business rates
The clamour of voices calling for urgent change to the business rates regime ahead of 1 April, when the new ratings list comes into effect, reached such a crescendo this week that it looks pretty nailed on that there will be some sort of announcement in the Budget on 8 ...
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InsightNot so great expectations
We knew bonuses in the agency world were likely to be down this year in the wake of the EU referendum, which is why earlier this month we investigated the connection between the anticipated slump and recent flurry of high-level people moves in our feature, Agents of Change.
