All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 17
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Property was at the heart of Tesco’s troubles
Anyone watching BBC’s Panorama this week could be forgiven for thinking they had tuned into a pilot for a new show called ‘The Blame Game’.
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How Derwent London became a property powerhouse
This year marks the 30th anniversary of John Burns and Simon Silver’s first acquisition, since when they turned Derwent London from a company with a £5m market cap into a £3.27bn powerhouse.
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What impact global vs domestic uncertainty?
Efforts to get back into the swing of things were brutally thwarted last week by the horrifying and deeply unsettling events in France.
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It's going to be a bumpy ride. Are you ready?
Struggling to get out of bed on time in the morning?
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Property celebrates an epic return to form
Who would have thought the industry could bounce back in such exuberant - in some sectors, arguably over-exuberant - fashion this year?
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US firm Colony kicks off £500m UK spree
Los Angeles-based Colony Capital has appointed UK asset manager Quidnet Capital to spearhead an audacious push into the UK property market.
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Regeneration and renewed confidence
If you were wondering why Quintain had held onto its West Silvertown site in Docklands, having otherwise pretty much decamped to Wembley, wonder no more.
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Canary Wharf Group prepares to offload 33 Canada Square
Canary Wharf Group (CWG) is preparing to sell Citibank’s 33 Canada Square office for around £400m.
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Talk’s good, now property must walk the walk
The time has come for property folk to decide if they are professionals… or the wide boys and girls they are so often portrayed as outside the industry.
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From hot UK to hot global retail locations
Last week, Property Week was deeply immersed in The Hot 100 retail locations in the UK.
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Hot in the city? Pah! Retail’s hotter at the seaside
OK, grab a pen and jot down what you think the nation’s top 20 retail hotspots are.
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From zero to hero? Reconstruction after 9/11
One World Trade Center officially opened for business this week, 13 years after the atrocity that destroyed the Twin Towers. Liz Hamson revisited the site and talked to some of the protagonists involved in its reconstruction.
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Leadenhall record raises the question – is this the top?
Was Nick Leslau being a bit cute when he insisted as he sold Max Property in July he was “absolutely not” calling the top of the market, and that he was simply getting out early having been “offered tomorrow’s jam today”?
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Leader: Bricks ‘n’ mortar is dead. Long live bricks ‘n’ mortar
It was not so long ago that retail experts were gloomily forecasting a slow and painful death - or at least dramatic rationalisation - of the bricks ‘n’ mortar stores in our towns and cities.
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Howard's way to reinvent and 'tidy up' Soho
When you think of Soho, you inevitably think of Soho Estates, but it shares ownership of the bulk of one of London’s most ‘bizarre, funny little villages’ with another estate… owned by the King of Soho Paul Raymond’s son, Howard. Liz Hamson met him.
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Sparks fly at first MIPIM UK
Wow. MIPIM UK got off to a feisty start on Wednesday, didn’t it? And not because of a controversial statement by one of the speakers… simply because a controversial character was there!
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Devolution... but not where we expected
We said the Scottish independence referendum would shine the spotlight on the power - or lack thereof - in the English regions and prompt a clamour among them for more.
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Leader: Manston plans could see the site soar once more
It is easy to let nostalgia stand in the way of progress. Nowhere is that more true than at Manston Airport in Kent where locals (declaration of interest - I am one) have been swept along with the romantic notion that it should remain an airfield.
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Leader: Why the Japanese are poised for a UK return
There is big and then there is BIG. It is unprecedented in the global real estate market that you get a new entrant that instantly becomes potentially its largest ever player.
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Leader: Scotland - please don't go!
By the time the next issue of Property Week appears the question of Scottish independence will have been answered.