All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 13
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InsightGovernment cranks up volume at house party
If anyone was in any doubt that the government wants to tackle the housing crisis - or at least be seen to be tackling it - they are not now.
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InsightWhy off-site will be firmly on the agenda at RESI
What a difference some nice weather makes… oh and the outstanding performance of Team GB at the Olympics.
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InsightSummer Legends – from the vault: Raymond Mould interview
Property Week editor Liz Hamson recalls a rare interview from 2001 given by one of the property industry’s best-known figures, Raymond Mould.
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InsightSummer Legends – from the vault: Gerald Ronson interview
Property Week editor Liz Hamson recalls her interview with legendary property tycoon Gerald Ronson back in February 2015. Flanked by his brother, Laurence, and daughter, Lisa, he discusses what drives him.
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InsightBrexit: let’s stick to facts over fiction and feelings
Journalists are often accused of not letting the facts get in the way of a good story.
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InsightCan Theresa May put spring back in property’s step?
Cancel those summer holidays, folks. Thanks to the open-ended retail funds suspending trading and dumping a raft of assets on the market, there are deals to be done.
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InsightWhat’s needed is balance, not scaremongering
Is there a cliché we haven’t drawn on in the febrile, and at times downright frightening, aftermath of the EU referendum?
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InsightRocking the house: Howard Crocker interview
Taking an unconventional approach to residential property investment has paid off for the Crocker brothers at Delph Property Group.
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InsightAlways look on the bright side of life...
Now is the summer of our discontent. The question is: can we stop it turning into the autumn, winter and spring?
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InsightOK, well done class for holding your breath so long...
… and exhale. The past few months have been marked by black comedy and terrible tragedy, but very little in the way of romance (any semblance of patriotism having long metamorphosed into naked nationalism in too many quarters).
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InsightThe final countdown begins for Europe...
This time next week, we won’t just know whether England has made it through the group stage of Euro 2016, we’ll also know the outcome of the other big European question: are we heading for Brexit?
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InsightQ&A: Sir Stuart Lipton
This Monday’s celebration of Sir Stuart Lipton ’s 50 years in London property was described as an “amazing party” by one guest.
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InsightIs industry doing enough to tackle money laundering?
Where there’s muck there’s brass, and in the case of ‘dirty money’ coming into UK property, a lot of it… for agents still prepared to handle it.
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InsightHave investors checked back into hotels?
I don’t think I have had cause to write about the hotels market once since I returned to Property Week nearly two years ago - and now two significant stories come along in one week.
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InsightWhy we should be bricking it over Brexit
Steve Norris reckons he’s bored with Brexit . To my mind, that’s like saying you’re bored waiting for the test results to come in for what could be a life-threatening illness - or at best a life-changing one (don’t you just hate that euphemism?).
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InsightWe have the skilled drivers to avoid a crash
Fears are mounting that the property market is careening out of control and heading for a crash.
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InsightWhat light do Cutts and Tchenguiz deals shed on sheds?
Sheds have been somewhat overlooked in all the talk about where we are in the property cycle, consigned to the periphery of the debate, just as their domestic counterparts are to the bottom of the garden.
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InsightA visionary and dreamer: Jeremy Newsum interview
At the end of the year, Jeremy Newsum steps down from the Grosvenor Estate after 40 years on and off with the business - here he talks about his career and what he plans to do next
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InsightPanama Papers air more dirty laundering
Anyone hoping the grubby issue of ‘dirty money’ had gone away after David Cameron’s threatened crackdown last year was rudely disabused of that notion this week as the Panama Papers lifted the lid on the extent to which the world’s rich use tax havens to hide their wealth.
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InsightBuy-to-let clampdown is no joke, unfortunately
So today’s the day. Many will no doubt be wishing it was an April Fools’ joke, but the additional 3% stamp duty land tax on second homes and buy-to-let properties that comes into force today is anything but for investors - especially now news has emerged that the Bank of ...
