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This week in… 2000
Then shadow chancellor Francis Maude backed Property Week’s campaign against further rises in stamp duty.
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Spin class: New year. Same old.
The David Bowie music celebration aside, the new year has not been a happy one for this co-founder of impoverished Pastis Communications.
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This week in… 2020
Ocubis secured a resolution to grant planning permission for a 600-bed hotel in London, after it abandoned plans for a residential led, mixed-use scheme on the site.
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Agent P: New year honours
Friday 8 January, still holed up at home: Year-end appraisals cancelled, yippee! No wary bonus chat with Gruppenführer Geoff. No weary chats with Team P. They always whine about pay! Even the Eighth Floor can see conducting appraisals remotely is as useless as dating on Zoom.
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This week in… 2013
Landsec, formerly Land Securities, completed the £111.9m purchase of a 42% portion of the X-Leisure Unit Trust, and acquired 100% of its management company, X-Leisure Limited.
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Spin class: Tier 3
It was bad enough that London moved into Tier 3, but then Sophie and I got an invite we couldn’t get out of to a client’s Christmas quiz, wearing a Christmas sweater. I trawled the charity shops and got one in Scope for a fiver. Sophie’s team was called ‘Bring ...
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This week in… 2011
Then SEGRO chairman Nigel Rich was one of 20 businessmen who wrote to the Financial Times in support of PM David Cameron’s veto of a new European treaty.
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Shed over heels
It has been a stonking year for the UK industrial sector, so great, in fact, that some agents have been singing its praises… literally.
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Agent P: Festive cheer
Friday 11 December, virtual Christmas drinks: I’d rather drink hemlock in hell, but the rest of Team P pinged ‘Yay!’ when Young Thruster suggested we should “bling up and drink up!” on Zoom at noon. Up the oik pops in an Eminem T-shirt, clutching a Becks. Is that a chromed-up ...
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This week in… 2019
Shares in UK property stocks surged on the morning after the Conservatives secured a large majority in the general election.
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Spin class: a retail domino effect
Arcadia, Debenhams, Divoc – what a week for business collapses. Three household names, although, tbh, Divoc is only a household name in two households – mine and Sophie’s.
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This week in… 2008
HSBC took control of its eponymous Canary Wharf tower when its owner, Metrovacesa, struggled to meet its debt obligations.
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Agent P: Hot gossip
Friday 27th November: Idling at home, bored. Fire up Zoom for a goss with my mate Joe at JLL. Mission: to suss his new EMEA boss, a Yank called Andy Poppink. “A basketball Jock who makes George Clooney look like George Soros,” sighs Joe, five foot three in his socks ...
