All articles by Liz Hamson – Page 9
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InsightBTR is not the panacea to all the housing sector’s ills
Is it just me or is anyone else starting to get a distinct whiff of the emperor’s new clothes from build-to-rent?
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InsightIs the big four poised to become the big three?
Could the battle for retail survival get any more intense?
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InsightWhy Hammerson’s just not that into intu anymore
That was some U-turn from Hammerson. Just weeks ago, it was talking up its retail portfolio in a bid to KO the Klépierre bid, noting that values had fallen by less than 1% despite the recent CVAs and retail failures and insisting that tenant demand was strong for its centres. ...
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InsightLiving in the Upside Down...
It sometimes feels as though we are living in a parallel universe like the Upside Down, the alternate dimension in cult sci-fi series, Stranger Things .
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InsightI mind the gender pay gap. But do you?
Are we witnessing the end of the pale, male and stale era? Nah, probably not – not in property, anyway. But we could just be witnessing the beginning of the end.
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InsightAt halfway point is Brexit glass half empty or half full?
What’s going on people? You’re usually such a relentlessly optimistic bunch!
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InsightThe French investment woman: Isabelle Scemama interview
Isabelle Scemama took over from Pierre Vaquier as chief executive officer of AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets in February 2017. Last week, Property Week caught up with her at AXA IM – Real Assets’ Mipim base just off the Croisette to quiz her on the annual property jamboree, ...
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InsightNot such a jolly old boys’ club outing
I am sure I am not the only one who flew out to Nice this week feeling a good deal of trepidation mixed in with the usual nervous excitement ahead of Mipim.
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InsightCarry on investing… but not carrying on
Even the most ardent of Leavers would surely not have predicted this. On Wednesday, Donald Tusk scorned Theresa May’s “pick and mix” Brexit plan, warning that there would be “negative economic consequences”.
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InsightSnowmaggedon. Bring it on!
Oh to be a kid again. As I fired up the laptop and my two mobiles on Tuesday, I cast a look ruefully at the children outside throwing snowballs at each other and revelling in a day off school.
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InsightAre we witnessing the rebirth of the high street?
It wasn’t so long ago that we were repeatedly being told of the demise of the high street – and the reports of its death were not an exaggeration, as anyone who lives in a town whose lifeblood was sucked out seemingly overnight by a new out-of-town shopping centre knows ...
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InsightWhere does the industry go from here?
I think it’s safe to say that we have all been shocked by the revelations about the Presidents Club.
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InsightAll the Presidents men
Last weekend, I went to see the Oscar nominated film The Post , which tells the story of how the New York Times and Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers .
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InsightIf it wasn’t for Carillion’s misfortune…
Mondays don’t get much bluer than this one was for Carillion, do they? And let’s not delude ourselves otherwise: the fall-out will not be confined to the construction and service sectors.
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Insight2018 preview: another year of living dangerously
So what’s it going to be? A year of limbo as we await further clarity on Brexit, with everyone sitting on their hands, fingers crossed that come 2019 the deadline doesn’t pass without a trade deal, sending investors and occupiers running for the (foreign) hills?
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InsightThat was the year that was
No, sadly I cannot predict the future. When I asked in last week’s leader ‘Who’s next on the shopping list after Intu?’, I did not suspect for a second that we would have an answer just days later in Unibail-Rodamco’s proposed £18.5bn takeover of Westfield to create an even bigger ...
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InsightWho’s next on the shopping list after Intu?
Whoa. A few people might have thought something was afoot in June when it emerged that John Whittaker’s Peel Holdings had built up a 4.6% stake in Hammerson, but nobody gave it too much thought.
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InsightBlack Friday? More like Black November
Don’t you just hanker for the days when you panic bought your Christmas presents at full price with just hours to spare and then offered them up nervously on the big day in the full knowledge they would be returned on Boxing Day and re-bought at half price or just ...
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InsightVictory is Property Week’s… sort of
It is a while since I can recall so many responses to a Budget landing in my inbox.
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InsightRetirement and retail at critical junctures
Retirement living used to be synonymous with care homes - and its prospects were seen as about as enticing as being sent to one. Not anymore.
