All articles by Peter Bill
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Peter Bill on Labour’s new housing gameplan
Guardian 9 March: Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet will meet top civil servants in Whitehall before Easter as Labour prepares to form the next government. That post-Easter conversation imagined: Treasury mandarin to DLUHC permanent secretary Sarah Healey: “Anything we need to worry about?”
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Peter Bill on how to navigate Mipim
The best meetings are accidental. The best outcomes unexpected.
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Peter Bill on the unwritten rules of valuations
Obliging valuers to break up with clients after a decade is a good thing. But, face it, what can alter the power imbalance between payer and those paid for an opinion?
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COMMENT | BY THE WAY: Peter Bill on Gove tampering with the market
Merciless Mike! A man whose actions will benefit the many at the expense of the few.
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@peterproperty on extra City office space
Hubris hobbled City of London thinking ahead of the Big Bang in 1986, when financial deregulation sparked an explosion in demand for office space.
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@peterproperty on the future of shopping malls
Landsec boss Mark Allan last week signalled a desire to spend up to £1bn on retail. Half may go on Liverpool One.
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@PeterProperty on the why Savills’ results might be the canary in the coalmine
Expect losses in America and on the continent. Expect profit way down on the £153m in 2022.
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@PeterProperty on the future of the LondonMetric LXi Reit merger
In 2009, British Land retail boss Andrew Jones walked out with two colleagues to set up LondonMetric.
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Peter Bill on navigating the road to recovery
“Yesterday may have been the beginning of a slow, and doubtless bumpy, recovery,” said former Knight Frank senior partner Alistair Elliott over breakfast on 15 November.
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Carbon counting will barely count
Toward the end of an absorbing performance of the play Frank and Percy, Percy (played by Ian McKellen) admits to Frank (Roger Allam) he is being shunned by his academic peers for daring to suggest fighting climate change is hopeless. Frank, newly widowed, and Percy, newly single, edge into a ...
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Two worlds are starting to turn
Planet property: Peter Bill considers the performance of femail asset managers and shares his thoughts on Comer v Greenwich.
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Peter Bill on how home goals bring Labour pains
If Labour wins power next year and can re-tool the compulsory purchase order regime to permit the purchase of tens of thousands of acres of land at existing use value then, yes, it’s possible a start on heralded ‘nationally significant developments’ will be made by the end of its first ...
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The good ship RICS isn’t about to sink
“There is no such thing as the BBC,” wrote Times columnist Matthew Parris a fair while back, defending ‘Auntie’ from periodic attack. A reminder to those who periodically assault RICS. There’s no corporeal substance into which a knife can be plunged, just a bodiless spirit.
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Confusing desire with demand
‘Supply and demand’ definition: the relationship between the quantity of a commodity producers wish to sell at various prices and the quantity that consumers wish to buy.
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Peter Bill on the property industry’s nervousness and optimism
Last Thursday lunchtime in the City, Montagu Evans managing partner Rob Bower summed up the mood of the sector as “jittery”. There is reassurance at the mending economic outlook, but jumpiness each time higher-priced money causes a financial fuse to blow, resulting in yet another repossession in a market hardwired ...
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French connection, UK ambitions
When it comes to British commercial property, folk don’t come earlier educated than Phillippa Prongué. ‘Pip’, to friends, is as English as a Barbour jacket and Hunter wellies. The surname? Pip’s husband is French.
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Over-store homes risk JLP’s soul
Cleverness is one thing; common sense another. Watching chair Dame Sharon White impair the John Lewis brands is saddening.
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Peter Bill on planner gains and competition authority pain
Should planning consultants get overage? An essentially moral question, one which came up when confronted with the slightly shocking news two weeks ago that a few in the profession are so confident in their warm relationship with Local Planning Authority officers that they boast of being able to get more ...
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Peter Bill on artificial certitude, real estate certainty
Last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates suggested the coming of artificial intelligence (AI) was “every bit as important as the PC and the internet”. So I decided to put the much-touted AI app Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) to the test.