All Property Eye articles – Page 6
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NewsAgent P: Christmas lunch
Friday 2 December 11am, Oceanic Room: Extra-early Christmas lunch for Team P today. Getting in ahead of the Winter of Discontent strikes. We’ve had a good year: at least until Black Friday, 23 September, the day of that sodding mini-Budget.
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NewsThis week in… 2017
Hammerson agreed a £3.4bn takeover of shopping centre rival intu, subject to shareholder approval.
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NewsSpin class: in the name of good PR
Soph and I like to think we give PR a decent (LOL) name. We don’t lie to journalists; we don’t bully them; and, if they’ve stacked up a story early, we confirm it (off the record, of course).
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NewsThis week in… 2016
The government chose 10 South Colonnade, a giant 560,000 sq ft office block in Canary Wharf, as a new London hub for around 5,700 staff.
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NewsBack to family values
Survey finds one in four parents would like offspring to return to the nest.
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NewsAgent P: brainstorm time
Friday 18 November, 8am, Titanic Room: In early. Daunting day. I’ve got a super-secret offsite brainstorm in an hour.
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NewsThis week in… 2014
The government announced an overhaul of stamp duty, abolishing the ‘single slab rate’ on the purchase of a home in favour of new marginal rates.
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NewsSpin class: CEOs
Excessive remuneration, high carbon emissions, tax avoidance… Our real estate CEOs are not held in the highest regard in the outside world, and we PRs tend to be very cautious about letting them loose with the press in case they slip up.
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NewsThis week in… 2018
Property Week revealed that TK Maxx was to open its first-ever Oxford Street store, days after New Look announced plans to close up to 100 UK stores, including its Oxford Street base.
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NewsAgent P: Team P
Friday 4 November, 8.30am, Baltic Room: We eye each other, warily, thinking “who’s next?”.
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OnlineThis week in… 2016
Donald Trump won a poll-busting victory in the US presidential election, sending shockwaves through the political world.
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NewsSpin class: portfolio sale
Bafflingly, Soph and I are living in a parallel world. While the UK has slumped into financial chaos and turned into a laughing stock, our little business has been doing rather well, mostly.
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NewsThis week in… 2018
Broadcaster Channel 4 confirmed Leeds as the location for its new HQ, selecting the Yorkshire city ahead of Birmingham and Manchester.
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ProfessionalLet them eat cake…
…before they decide whether to buy one of Allison’s new Somerton homes
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ProfessionalAgent P: Spreadsheets
Friday 21 October, 9am, Titanic Room: A white-faced Sporty Girl slides copies of a development appraisal for 60 flats in north London around the table. The spreadsheet, for a Beirut-based client of GBH, shows a GDV of £32m, including the usual 20% developer margin.
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ProfessionalThis week in… 2018
London mayor Sadiq Khan revealed plans for 11,154 new council homes at social rent levels after agreeing deals worth £1bn with 26 London boroughs.
