All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 14
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InsightConfusion in our eyes, but we haven’t lost control
This week’s horrors in Brussels serve as a depressing reminder that terrible things can happen to innocent people who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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InsightThe Patron spirit - Keith Breslauer Interview
Ahead of closing Fund V, Patron Capital’s irrepressible managing director Keith Breslauer reveals why he is as inspired by the charity work his firm does as the deals.
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InsightBrexit and migrant crisis to be top of mind at Mipim
As the industry descends en masse to Cannes for Mipim (wash your mouth out with soap and water Private Eye for referring to it as a “booze and hooker fest”), two issues will be top of mind, if not the official agenda - neither directly property related.
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InsightWhy off-site is suddenly on-message
Have we finally reached a tipping point when it comes to off-site housing construction?
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InsightHeading for the Brexit? And if yes, does it matter?
Last weekend was pretty disorientating, wasn’t it?
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InsightSometimes it’s hard to be a woman
One of the dubious advantages of being in journalism is that, unlike many other professions, there’s not that noticeable a pay gap between men and women - we’re all paid equally badly.
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InsightWill capital gain under Boris’s successor?
Where the London property industry goes in 2016 will not all be down to who wins the mayoral election in May, but it will certainly be a key factor.
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InsightInterview: Industry legend Ian Coull's 2003 talk to Property Week
Following the death of former SEGRO chief Ian Coull, we republish this interview with the property legend from 2003…
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InsightExpect a few bumps on the revolutionary road
There has been plenty of talk of the slowdown in foreign investment in UK property, particularly the capital’s prime residential market, but if proof were needed that for every country that backs off, there’s another waiting to get back in - look no further than Iran, whose pent-up demand post ...
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InsightGlobal markets wobble but will property fall down?
How appropriate that the week which kicked off with Blue Monday would also feature a Troublesome Tuesday and distinctly Wobbly Wednesday.
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InsightInterview: NewRiver’s David Lockhart and HSBC’s David Phythian
Think relationship banking is no longer relevant? Think again. NewRiver’s David Lockhart and HSBC’s David Phythian explain why.
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InsightWill 2016 be a year of merger mania?
Why exactly is Deloitte in real estate? I’m being serious.
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InsightFrom cricket to crystal balls
Boo. After Ben Stokes’ heroics at the weekend, how deflating was it to see South Africa bounce back after Hashim Amla was dropped not once, not twice, but three times?
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InsightA year of prosperity, but sadly not peace
In the words of Slade’s Noddy Holder, “IT’S CHRISTMAS!”… or nearly, anyway. It seems like only yesterday we were putting the finishing touches to our review of 2014.
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InsightInterview: Robert Ware of Conygar Investment Company
Robert Ware was involved in one of the biggest-ever deals with the buyout of MEPC. Now, he’s at the helm of a very different-sized operation in Conygar.
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InsightThe unfair business of business rates
As the floods caused by Storm Desmond receded this week, there was some welcome news for those in Cumbria and Lancashire whose livelihoods have been so badly affected.
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InsightBlack Friday and definitely not a blue Monday
How quick everyone was this time last week to proclaim Black Friday a black day for retail, either because the anticipated throngs of people failed to materialise early doors, or because they thought the US import would boost sales fleetingly but be followed by a sales slump.
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InsightBusiness as usual at Mapic? Not quite
The mood was inevitably more subdued than usual at Mapic this week, especially on Wednesday morning as delegates awoke to the news of more explosions and heavy gunfire in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, having already encountered heightened security at airports and then yet more at the Palais des Festivals. ...
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InsightFrom Miami and Mapic... to Margate and Milton Keynes
Ah, the life of a jet-setting journo… I wish. I’m cream-crackered at the moment having returned from holiday in Miami just in time for press day and to pack my suitcase again for retail extravaganza Mapic in Cannes.
