All Property Eye articles – Page 10
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Agent P: sign of the times
Friday 3 December 11.25am: Attlee Room (redacted) City Council offices. You’d think the £620 our client, Josh Bang, paid upfront for pre-app meeting would have bought us more than filthy coffee and a brusque brush-off from the deputy chief planner.
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This week in… 2017
Toys R Us became one of the first big names to enter into a CVA. As it did, it announced plans to make redundancies and close branches as well as transform its business model.
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Spin class: funkapolitan
Snort! Soph’s face is a picture of dread when I say: “Hands up who’s been to Peppa Pig World?” My poor colleague had suffered Miss Rabbit’s Helicopter Flight and worse last year with her sister and her two young daughters. “Sterilise me right now, Hen,” she had said on her ...
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The Bourne supremacy
Martin’s Properties MD completes 1,087-mile virtual run ahead of schedule.
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Agent P: greenwashing
Friday 19 November, 8.45am, Teutonic Room: “Cop this!” snorts Charlie Boy, staring down at his phone, interrupting my half-hearted explanation of why GBH now wants staff to define their personal pronouns.
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An oar-some adventure
Tritax Mothership crew will row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic for charity.
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This week in… 2018
Craft beer brewer BrewDog launched its first bar in a shopping centre at Hammerson’s Union Square in Aberdeen.
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Spin class: Only fools...
Cushty! Sophie and I are having our morning catch-up together – face to face, in an office. Our new serviced office just off the King’s Road. The funny thing is I’ve gotten so used to Zoom Soph that I keep staring at real Soph in a rather bemused way.
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This week in… 2018
Photography retailer Jessops secured an upgraded space in Soho with a move to Thor Equities’ 145 Oxford Street.
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Agent P: down the drain
Friday 5 November, 8.30am. Oceanic room: Bad news to impart. About 80% of Team P’s 2021 bonus pool has just swirled down the drain. A BTR purchase of 115 flats in Hull has been nixed after five months of patient pushing by Charlie Boy and Posh Girl.
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This week in… 2019
Fuller’s announced that it had acquired the Cotswold Inns & Hotels portfolio of seven Birmingham hotels and two bars for £40m.
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Spin class: Cop Out
No sooner had Soph and I done our post-Expo, two-day, £68 Covid test than we got pinged by track and trace. We guessed it was someone with Covid on the plane home – and so everyone on the flight must have been pinged.
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This week in… 2020
John Lewis was granted permission from Westminster City Council to convert almost half its flagship Oxford Street store into office space.
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Agent P: that sinking feeling
Friday 22 Oct, Noon, Titanic Room: UK leasing team leaders meeting. Fifteen or so of us gather warily once a quarter. The barely hidden agenda consists of dissing rivals, boasting of our successes, excusing failures and general point-scoring with GBH’s head of leasing, normally chummy Brian.
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