All Metropolis articles
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NewsThis week in... 2012
Southwark Council gave the green light for Berkeley Group’s One Blackfriars.
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Agent P: In bed
Friday October 1st: In bed. I’ve had it. Sweet September has soured into bitter October. The rest of Team P is seconded to Property Management, to rustle up Q4 rents. Fat chance.
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It’s the unreal deal
It’s a depressing time, what with a global pandemic, winter approaching and escalating cabin fever now we’re WFH for another six months. If only it was a different home. Sigh.
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Spin class: WFH...again
Just a fortnight after taking a suite in our client Divoc’s flex office building and Sophie and I have got to go back to WFH. Our client has “generously” given us a rent holiday but on the quid pro quo that we don’t charge him PR fees.
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This week in… 1999
Property Week reported that “new kid” Unite had seen its shares rise by 5p to 112p after releasing its first set of interim results.
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Rihanna’s Rexit deal
The pop star’s former north-west London home is on the market for a cool £32m.
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Agent P: The Tank
6pm, 18 September, The Tank: Why GBH staff call the spit-and-sawdust wine bar north of Oxford Street ‘The Tank’ is lost in time. Didn’t getting ‘tanked up’ used to be a thing? Not tonight, place is a morgue.
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This week in… 2019
WeWork postponed an autumn listing after failing to win investor support for the multi-billion IPO.
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Spin class: back to the office
This morning, Sophie and I finally made our return to the office – a tiny suite in our client Divoc’s new flex office building in Camden.
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This week in... 2016
Davidson Kempner bought a portfolio of NCP car parks from Blackstone for £500m.
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Agent P: Teutonic Room
8.30am, Friday 4 September, Teutonic Room: “Say hello to Charlie Boy.” I gesture to Team P’s newest recruit, the embarrassed 54-year-old third son of a minor hereditary peer who left Savills under a weeny cloud a few months ago.
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This week in… 2016
The government’s restoration and renewal committee suggested the Houses of Parliament be vacated for six years so that a £4bn refit could be carried out.
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Spin class: Good luck comes to an end
Well, that’s our run of post-lockdown luck over then. Up till last Friday, Sophie and I had not lost a single client or had any of them ask for a fee holiday. Then our biggest client went and sacked us.
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This week in…2008
Billionaire retailer Sir Philip Green wrote to some of the UK’s top landlords to arrange a meeting to discuss concessions on service charges and insurance across his retail portfolio.
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This week in…2019
Portsmouth City Council acquired business campus Lakeside North Harbour from Northwood Investors for £138m in an off-market transaction.
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Spin class: It’s August
It’s August and the non-stop workdays of cycling through emails, Zoom calls, press releases, LinkedIn posts and new business presentations are on pause.
