All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 8
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InsightHammond dashes high street’s high hopes
‘Malities, malities, malities, malities – that’s the four malities over.’ Now that’s a funny joke.
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InsightWill Saudi investment be banned? Should it be?
The most startling image in the news this week has to be that of Jamal Khashoggi’s son Salah shaking the hand of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday three weeks after his father’s brutal murder. What must he have been thinking as he met the man allegedly ...
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InsightHammond must use Budget to help rescue retail
Just as you thought things couldn’t get any worse in the retail sector, they do… much worse.
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InsightNot so caught between a rock and a hard Brexit
Is the industry just sensibly keeping calm and carrying on as Michel Barnier continues to lob brickbats at Theresa May’s Brexit plans – or fiddling (increasingly nervously) while Rome burns?
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InsightDiversity is about more than slapping ‘fe’ on to ‘male’
As a Cambridge graduate, I was depressed and, frankly, embarrassed at how lowly the university ranked on social diversity in The Sunday Times ’ latest Good University Guide – with only Oxford scoring lower.
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InsightRESI 2018: meet the top 40 resi Trailblazers
Check out Property Week ’s inaugral list of 40 Trailblazers, as chosen by the RESI Senate.
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NewsCalling out to all the Best Places to Work in Property
Does your company boast a best-in-class work environment? Are your corporate culture, employee engagement and benefits second to none? Do you go out of your way to not just attract the best talent but also nurture and reward that talent?
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InsightTen years after the world turned upside down
As with 9/11 and, if you are longer of tooth, the assassination of JFK, most of us remember where we were when Lehman Brothers collapsed. It is one of those seismic events that are branded like a hot iron into the collective psyche.
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InsightA letter to the new housing minister
Dear Kit, thank you for joining us at the RESI Convention in Wales this week. We are delighted that you have chosen to give your first major public address to the sector as housing minister at our event.
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InsightWill Ashley’s Direct approach work for House of Fraser?
The ‘will he or won’t he?’ question had been swirling around Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley for weeks. Some thought he would splash the cash to protect his shareholding, others that he would sit on his hands and do nothing.
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NewsRESI 2018: calling all SME resi developers
Property Week is inviting residential SME developers to ‘meet their future partner’ at the all-new RESI Convention at the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales on 12-14 September.
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InsightDigital-only issue: RESI, steady, go
Has there ever been a more exhilarating – or terrifying – time to be working in the residential sector? I can’t think of one. The sector has had to deal with challenge after challenge this year: the fourth housing minister in 12 months, the chaos caused by Brexit, the ailing ...
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InsightIs defence really best form of attack for Hammerson?
So what to make of Hammerson’s strategy update? It was always going to be tricky for chief executive David Atkins to identify the opportunity amidst the chaos of the abandoned merger with intu and rejected takeover bid from Klépierre.
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InsightAre we at the dawn of an even more anti-property era?
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… if only.
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InsightThe jewel in The Crown - Alison Nimmo interview
Alison Nimmo has transformed The Crown Estate from a traditional, landed estate into a modern, progressive business. In her first interview since announcing she is stepping down at the end of 2019, she explains how to Liz Hamson
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InsightLet’s hope Malthouse isn’t yet another housing mayfly
Amid the football fever, Brexit brouhaha and Trump trashing, most Brits will have barely registered that the knock-on effect of David Davis’s resignation as Brexit secretary was the appointment of Kit Malthouse, the fourth – yes, fourth – new housing minister in 12 months.
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InsightAn anniversary no one is celebrating
Who would have thought that the two years since the EU referendum would be so painful and politically humiliating?
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InsightAre we on the brink of a new industrial revolution?
Who would have thought that we Brits, a nation of folk who not so long ago scorned US-style customer service – proudly preferring service with a snarl to anything with a smile – would become such converts to the service culture?
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InsightHeathrow’s third runway is not off the ground yet
Whoa, hold your horses – or should that be: leave those chocks where they are? Transport minister Chris Grayling may have rubber-stamped a third runway at Heathrow, but it hasn’t been given final clearance for take-off yet and might not be for some time.
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InsightThere’s nothing voluntary about CVAs for landlords
The only surprising thing about the news earlier this week that Marks Spencer plans to shut more than a hundred stores is that it did not resort to the current vehicle du jour, the company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
