Simon Creasey
Simon leads on the features desk co-ordinating and writing the Insight section. He rejoined the magazine in 2014 having previously worked for Property Week from 2000 to 2004.
Contact info
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- 020 8253 8747
- Email:
- simon.creasey@propertyweek.com
NewsCivil servants head to regions as part of levelling-up agenda
Property figures welcome strategy but ask whether it will make a significant difference to economic growth
- Insight
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.
- Insight
Founder of Valor Real Estate discusses how the firm built a €1bn portfolio
Valor Real Estate Partners founder Christian Jamison joins Property Week to discuss the company’s path to a €1bn I&L asset portfolio, its recent joint venture with Quadreal and its ambitions for the year ahead.
- Insight
Re-Leased into the data market
Tom Wallace, founder of property management platform Re-Leased, tells Simon Creasey how he built the data software business and why he believes it has come into its own during the pandemic
- News
RICS relents to industry pressure over calls for review
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has succumbed to industry pressure and is ‘revisiting’ the need to hold an independent review of its corporate governance processes
- News
M7 completes North West office lease renewals
M7 Real Estate has completed a series of lease renewals on 96,600 sq ft of regional office space on behalf of its M7 Real Estate Investment Partners III (M7 REIP III) fund in the North West
- Online
Bywater Properties to offer free office space in Q1 next year
Bywater Properties is offering free office space at its McLellan Works development in Glasgow and its Northstar scheme in Manchester, in the first quarter of 2021.
- Insight
Meet the new local heroes
Brunswick Property Partners co-founders David Turner and Will Amies tell Property Week about their new London workspace venture Akoya and their ambitions for a £1bn portfolio.
- Insight
Covid-fuelled demand spike set to spark logistics space shortage
New data from Savills shows I&L space under construction for 2020-21 is down almost 50% on last year.
- Insight
Industrial and Logistics supplement November 2020
Almost every part of the property industry has been detrimentally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Food and beverage operators have spent more days closed this year than open, retailers have shuttered stores after going under or entering into CVAs and administration and offices have lain empty during the biggest WFH ...
- Insight
Interview with duo bringing big US player to UK
Industrial real estate developer BRIDGE is a fixture in the US but a relative unknown here. That could be about to change. Simon Creasey talks to the two men heading its newly opened UK office
- Markets
Leeds looks to a 2021 recovery
Covid-19 has certainly dented office take-up but the city looks set to bounce back by spring.
- Insight
View from the top: Darragh Hurley, managing director of Mount Anvil
Mount Anvil’s managing director talks to Property Week about its Verdean scheme in west London, its partnership with housing association Catalyst and how well-placed it is to weather the recession.
- Insight
Offices vs Politics: How the work from home policy is shaping the workplace
Many thought talk of the death of the office was exaggerated, but that was before the new WFH directive.
- Insight
The big shed shift from box to cube
It is not just the average footprint of a warehouse that continues to grow. The height has shot up too.
- Markets
The retail industry is braced for more CVAs
Further retail proposals are expected from some significant high street names.
- Insight
Freeths think tank: will tech change the way we work?
Earlier this summer, Property Week in association with Freeths hosted a virtual roundtable to discuss the findings of the fourth annual Power of Proptech survey and look at the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the digital transformation of the property industry.
- News
Gerald Eve given mandate to look after UCL’s property portfolio
UCL has selected Gerald Eve to oversee the university’s real estate portfolio following a tendering process. In addition to its main campus in Bloomsbury, UCL’s estate encompasses 270 properties totalling more than 1.4m sq ft.
- Insight
They bet big, but will councils lose big?
Local authority investment in property has soared in recent years. Property Week asks what now as values and rental income crash.
- Insight
View from the top: Michael Ingall, CEO of Allied London
The Allied London CEO talks to Property Week about Covid-19 construction delays, seismic shifts in the perception of property caused by the pandemic and the critical importance of a diverse portfolio
