All Property Eye articles – Page 5
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ProfessionalSpin class: August
August is the nerviest month. Granted, it’s nice to be lazy and go on holiday, but doing no work for clients, having meetings cancelled and receiving out-of-office replies to emails does not bode well when you’re sending your monthly retainer invoices to them during a downturn.
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Armchair developers
Over 80% of people regularly watch at least one home or property show
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This week in… 2016
Plans emerged for a radical restoration of the Houses of Parliament to refit and repair the building at a cost of up to £4bn.
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Bristol locals see red
Where, you might wonder, is the best place on Earth to simulate a mission to Mars? The bare rocky slopes of a volcano in Iceland? The arid red deserts of Arizona? Nope. Bristol is your best bet.
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Agent P: school holidays
Friday 26 August, 9am, Titanic room: GBH Towers 20% full at best. Fred on the door says the missing are mostly staff with kids, facing a weekend of airport hell tracking back from the Costa Brava or Corsica at the fag-end of the school hols. “Serves ‘em right,” he chuckles. ...
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This week in... 2017
ITV submitted plans for a new 300,000 sq ft global HQ building, to replace its existing studios complex on London’s South Bank.
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Fund to honour Miles
Scholarship for Reading real estate course is memorial to late CWM partner
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This week in… 2021
Hammerson posted a total comprehensive loss for the first half of 2021 of £395.6m, and said there was “a pathway to create sustainable value”.
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Do you know the drill?
Building owners beware, these DIY hacks could cause some sticky situations
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Agent P: border crossing
Friday 29 July, 3pm, Baltic Room: Posh Girl and Charlie Boy finally return from Dover, three hours late for the Team P meeting to discuss the value of a brand-new shed paid for by the taxpayer, but no longer needed.
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This week in… 2020
Tritax Big Box revealed it had let a 151,388 sq ft warehouse in Doncaster to pet food business Butternut Box – in what was the developer’s first speculative letting at Symmetry Park.
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Spin class: heatwave
What a slow week it has been. The stifling heat on Monday and Tuesday meant Soph and I barely moved. We both have fans but they seemed to make little difference. And the emails slowed down, too. The summer lull has started very early.
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This week in…2018
Shopping centre landlord intu Properties reported a near-10% fall in shares and a 6% drop in portfolio value.
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Agent P: the Boris of property
Friday 15th July, 9.30am, Teutonic room: Groan. Charlie Boy does like to brag of his political connections. In his element this week, of course. Forty years on from Harrow, a few of his cleverer classmates are MPs. “Gove dared not run for PM for reasons I simply cannot disclose,” he ...
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This week in… 2016
Architect Renzo Piano put forward his reworked plans for the Paddington Pole, a £775m redevelopment of the former Royal Mail sorting office, creating 360,000sq ft of office space and 80,000 sq ft of retail space.
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Spin class: myrkl's all-round
“Have you read about the myrkl,” I ask Soph. “Isn’t that a wig for your pubes?” she replies. “No, you’re thinking of a merkin,” I say. “A myrkl is a new hangover prevention pill. You take two tablets before you go out on the razzle; they’re only £1 each.“ “Wow,” ...
