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View from the top: Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Qatari Diar CEO
The Qatari Diar CEO tells Property Week about the company’s ambitious plans to transform the former US embassy on Grosvenor Square into a luxury hotel and why he remains bullish about the UK’s prospects.
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The pair making film studios cool again
Jeremy Rainbird and Piers Read tell Property Week about their crusade to professionalise the UK film production industry and what it’s like to play with ‘the ultimate train set’ – the iconic Twickenham Studios.
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Q&A: Fortwell CEO on later-living lending
Dan Smith talks about refinancing retirement living schemes during Covid-19
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Will others follow HSBC and Lloyds in slashing footprints?
Banks blame downsizing on shift to homeworking as fears mount that other major occupiers will follow suit
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Why the BTR sector is still a banker
Development is one of the trickiest parts of being a property lender. So much can go wrong: planning wrinkles, problems in the ground before a structure starts rising, construction delays and disputes, and finally the risk of leasing a speculative project.
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New leasehold reforms are unfair
Nobody said it better than the late great Kenneth Williams: “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me”. But that phrase must have also passed the lips of a few landlords over the past months.
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There’s more to success than just productivity
While much has changed in the nearly 12 months since the start of lockdown, one thing remains the same: my unwavering belief in the role of the office in producing exceptional work.
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A formula to rescue the high street
What I find depressing about the increasingly hysterical debate on the high street’s decline and campaigns to rescue retail is the assumption that the answer is to put high streets back to where they were a decade ago: full of a plethora of shops of variable quality and success.
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Cambridge rides the biomedical wave
The city of Cambridge looks set to cement its reputation as a tech and science hotspot with new schemes.
