All articles by Lydia Stockdale. – Page 2
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Blogs
What DO you do when you're unemployed?
‘So, what do you do?’: the most dreaded question for anyone who is unemployed. It’s a question that must regularly knock you off guard. Whenever you are introduced to someone new, it’s going to be one of the first things you’re asked. But does what you do – or not ...
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Professional
Allsop graduate clinches RICS rookie auctioneer prize
Daphne Mahon beats three finalists to win RICS Matrics auction competition
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Professional
Occupiers demand satisfaction
Lydia Stockdale reports from the Occupier Satisfaction Conference, organised by Property Week
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Professional
Daddies’ girls: Fathers and daughters with careers in property
To celebrate Father’s Day, Lydia Stockdale meets six dads and their daughters who have followed them into property
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Professional
Councils are ‘failing to realise value’ of £250bn of property
Audit Commission report slams public sector’s inability to actively manage assets
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Online
Audit Commission report slams local authorities’ property management.
Local authorities are unsuccessfully managing the value of their property assets, a report launched today by The Audit Commission has shown.
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Professional
Cool customers
Occupiers have given lukewarm support to efforts to improve their lot. Lydia Stockdale reports on the 2009 Occupier Satisfaction Index
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Professional
Jones Lang LaSalle asks staff to take pay cuts
Temporary reductions range from 15% to 5%, starting from July
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Markets
Housing pain: Industry leaders give advice to young property professionals
Young property professionals debated housing and regeneration at the 1st Friday London breakfast
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Professional
Brand designs
As Norwich Union becomes Aviva, and with Atisreal about to become BNP Paribas Real Estate, Lydia Stockdale examines the benefits of rebranding in a recession
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Professional
Cluttons completes Oxford agent takeover
Global property services company joins local firm James Styles & Whitlock
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Professional
Graduates see little hope in property
Number of students applying for real estate jobs plummets 19%
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Professional
Give and take… and take… and take
As landlords struggle to let space, occupiers have the upper hand in negotiations. Lydia Stockdale lists the menu of bargaining options for office and industrial tenants
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Professional
Industry pair impart redundancy wisdom
Former Lehman and UBS employees discuss redundancy and careers at CoreNet workshop
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Professional
A neate fit
Two regional agencies, Carter Jonas and Dreweatt Neate, completed their merger on 1 May
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Professional
Are you starting something? Starting your own property firm
Taken the plunge and decided to go it alone? Lydia Stockdale offers some tips on how to get the ball rolling
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Professional
Martin to take on London as Strutts head
Commercial head becomes senior partner to strengthen business in capital
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Professional
Secondees out: Property graduates on secondment
Young property professionals can be seconded as ‘hired hands’ to banks, accountants and other clients
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Online
Public sector to have central property function
A central property function should be formed to provide leadership and support across the whole public sector, the government’s Operational Efficiency Programme has concluded.