All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 12
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InsightWhy so many agents are seeking pastures new
When the going gets tough, the tough get going… and a lot of senior agency figures are doing just that at the moment.
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InsightWe want to be anarchy…
As weeks go, they don’t really get more momentous. First we had to digest Theresa May’s 12-point plan for exiting the EU, fittingly delivered in a Vivienne Westwood suit similar to the one worn by Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten. Anarchy in the UK, anyone?
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InsightFrom powerhouses to power councils
Is it just me or have we been transported back to the 1970s? It’s not just the relentless strike action, growing militancy among the masses or shifting political landscape (in which left is left and right is increasingly right); it’s the councils too.
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InsightThink 2016 was volatile? You ain’t seen nothing yet
Never has crystal ball gazing been so fiendishly difficult. The dense fog hanging over the political and economic landscape has made it nigh-on impossible to see ahead with any clarity, certainly not beyond three months when Article 50 will (presumably) have been triggered by Theresa May.
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InsightIt’s been a brutal year, but don’t look back in anger
I’ll be glad to see the back of 2016. It has been brutal. The tone was set early on by events that had nothing to do with property but foreshadowed the relentless barrage of shocks to come.
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InsightDinosaurs face extinction in new proptech age
Head still buried in the sand over the proptech threat? You’d better pull it out pronto.
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InsightBack Property Week’s campaign to Call Off Duty
When Philip Hammond failed to mention stamp duty in last week’s Autumn Statement, there were sighs of disappointment all round.
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InsightGVA’s new ringmaster: Gerry Hughes interview
When Swedish private equity firm EQT announced in October that it was renaming Bilfinger GVA’s parent company Apleona, the new name for Bilfinger GVA itself was conspicuous by its absence.
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InsightUS election: Who will deliver the final blow in this dirtiest of fights?
I won’t be around for the next couple of weeks because I’m going on holiday. Guess where I’m going? I’m not sure how this happened, but I’ve cunningly decided to pick the week of the US presidential election to visit the West Coast.
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InsightCitizen Cain: Jonathan Goldstein interview
There are plenty of football fans in the property industry - and plenty of Spurs fans in particular. Not many attempt to buy the club they support, though. Then again, not many are like Cain Hoy’s Jonathan Goldstein.
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InsightBrace yourself for fight-or-flight response to Heathrow
Twenty-six years. That’s how long it took from conception to delivery of Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 in 2008.
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InsightModernise or die? More like modernise or pay
It’s all very well Mark Farmer warning in his review of the UK construction labour model that the construction industry needs to “modernise or die” - but should he really be putting the onus on property developers to, in his own words, “bail it out”?
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InsightGet real on rates, London: you’ve got off lightly for years
There may be no winners in the government’s business rates revamp, but Jeez, there seem to be plenty of sore losers.
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InsightTop dog: Nick Leslau interview
Sitting in his swanky offices on Cavendish Square, complete with Mini bonnet signed by the 2003 World Cup-winning rugby team, the chairman of Prestbury Investments, Nick Leslau, has just acquired the 55-hotel Travelodge portfolio for £196.2m on behalf of the Secure Income REIT he advises.
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InsightThink it's only the UK facing a national housing crisis? Think again
It wasn’t so long ago that senior industry figures were railing against the government for being fixated on stimulating demand in the housing market at the expense of supply.
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InsightNew kids on the investment block
Strange things are afoot in the office investment market. While deals haven’t dried up in the way many feared immediately after the EU referendum, activity has undoubtedly slowed, with the institutions in particular sitting on their hands.
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InsightChanging of the guard: Frogmore interview
For years, the business was referred to as Paul White’s Frogmore. Not any longer. “Jo runs the business now,” says the company’s irrepressible chairman, flanked by his successor as CEO, former COO, Jo Allen.
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InsightYou asked for answers – RESI didn’t disappoint
I am not going to lie. In the weeks immediately after the EU referendum, I was looking ahead to this week’s RESI in Wales with a degree of trepidation.
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InsightBerkeley Homes: urban house masters
If you tap the word ‘urban’ into Google, ‘Urban House Berkeley Homes’ is fourth in the list after ‘urban’ itself, ‘urban dictionary’ and ‘Urban Outfitters’ - quite an achievement when you consider the new flexible housing concept, complete with roof terrace, was only launched in June.
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InsightRESI: we know the housing questions...now for the answers
There’s nothing like a vote to leave the EU to add a bit of spice to a residential conference - and so it has proved with this year’s RESI Conference in Wales.
