All Movers & Shakers articles
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Act now to keep West End top of retail premier league
It may be one of the world’s most iconic shopping destinations, but the West End cannot afford to rest on its laurels.
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Developers shying away from London
London is becoming less attractive for developers due to the complexity of the planning regime.
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HCA calls on big boys to involve SMEs more
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is considering forcing the large developers that buy its land to hand over parts of the sites to small and medium-sized housebuilders.
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Video: Ipsos MORI's Ben Page previews the election by numbers
Speaking at this morning’s Movers Shakers Breakfast, partnered by Property Week , the CEO of Ipsos MORI, Ben Page, talks about how 2016’s global elections marked a peak in the ‘crisis of the elites’ and how the 2017 UK General Election could see an even tighter outcome with ...
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Video: Movers & Shakers for 2017
Property Week caught up with the key players after Movers Shakers breakfast meetings in 2017 so far - watch the highlights here including GVA senior director Jerry Freeman, Gensler regional managing principal Duncan Swinhoe and LSE’s Professor Tony Travers.
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Movers & Shakers: the prospects for the London property market
The first Movers Shakers event of 2017 featured the first-ever 20/20 presentations covering 20 slides with 20 seconds for each.
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Yardley gets the last laugh among movers and shakers
Christmas is the season for many outlandish antics but it was still a surprise to see Capco investment director Gary Yardley perched on the back of a Vespa with German stand-up comedian Henning Wehn at the end of the Movers & Shakers annual dinner.
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Five things we learned at London Property Summit 2016
The great and good of London property gathered to discuss the capital’s housing crisis - PW reports on five key issues that emerged from the annual London Property Summit this November.
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City Hall likely to scrap viability assessments above fixed affordable rate - James Murray
City Hall is working up plans to scrap viability assessments for developments that meet a fixed affordable housing percentage of around 35%, London’s deputy mayor for housing has confirmed.
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'Affordable housing is a myth', says London borough leader
It is a “myth” that average Londoners have enough money to pay for housing allocated as affordable, the leader of the borough of Kingston said today.
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Movers & Shakers: Brexit - Who's Developing London?
Property Week speaks to GVA’s Jerry Freeman at the latest Movers and Shakers’ London Residential Breakfast as he profiles the highlights of talks from leading speakers Mike Slade (chairman, Helical plc), Richard Upton (deputy chief executive, U+I) and David Partridge (managing partner, Argent).
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Two housebuilders back May
Two of Britain’s leading housebuilders have backed Theresa May as the next prime minister, saying her appointment would put an end to a “damaging period of political instability”.
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Manchester council 'should not be property developers'
Manchester City Council should not be acting as property developers, according to a prominent local developer.
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Brexit may be industry's 'millennium bug'
Brexit could turn out to be the property industry’s ‘millennium bug’, SEGRO chief executive David Sleath has said.
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British Land 'struggling' to sell prime London homes
British Land is struggling to sell luxury homes in central London, amid a slowdown in the market, the firm’s head of residential has said.
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Devolution issue dominates Leeds property forum
Devolution was the watchword at the Movers and Shakers event held in Leeds city centre last week.
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North West 'needs more land and capacity' to continue development
The North West will need more freely available land and more capacity in the construction industry if it is to continue its current development boom, according to local property experts.
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Property bosses fire Brexit warning
Bosses of three of the UK’s largest property companies have warned of the “very big risk” Brexit poses to the UK economy.
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Bristol breakfast for Movers & Shakers
Around 170 leading property professionals turned up to the first Movers Shakers breakfast of the year in Bristol, not just to hear the keynote speech by city mayor George Ferguson but also the panel discussions by some of the city’s leading developers and investors.