All articles by Steve Norris – Page 5
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Snap election? Suddenly it is all starting to make sense
And so we’re off. In a genuine surprise move, Theresa May has called a general election for 8 June despite No 10 having warned journalists off the idea for many months.
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Those who benefit from Crossrail 2 should be the ones who pay for it
As London grows inexorably toward 10 million residents by 2025, we not only have a housing crisis, we have a connectivity crisis. Crossrail, or the Elizabeth line to give it its proper name, will help. By the end of 2019, it will carry half a million passengers a day and ...
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Acquiring public land at current use value could offer a radical solution to the housing crisis
“Underwhelming” is what most of the property industry seems to be saying about the housing white paper.
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May right to avoid shrill virtue signalling with Trump
Whether President Trump lasts his full four-year term or not, what we now know is we can take nothing for granted on the other side of the Atlantic.
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2017 Predictions: in the face of uncertainty, what to do? As Churchill said: ‘Keep buggering on’
A year ago, few economists predicted the UK would vote to leave the EU and almost no one imagined that a reality TV star with a questionable business record and unprintably politically incorrect views on almost every subject would be elected president of the US.
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The chancellor needs to see sense on stamp duty
It’s good to see Property Week organising its Call Off Duty campaign to get chancellor Philip Hammond to understand just how destructive George Osborne’s changes to stamp duty land tax (SDLT) have been.
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Why choosing Heathrow over Gatwick is a disaster
As an occasional columnist you’ve got to be very careful if you take a different line from your editor, but on the runway debate I’m going to have to.
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May will deliver a Brexit that will emphatically work in our favour
This column is headed ‘The Politics of Property’ and these days that means one word - Brexit.
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Blame housing sector problems on Cameron and Osborne
There is an intriguing contrast between the predictive and hard data on the economy emerging since the Brexit vote.
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Business as usual in London as the experts take charge
As Property Week columns over the past few weeks have demonstrated, the apocalypse did not happen and life post Brexit vote is actually pretty normal.
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Theresa May’s no-nonsense approach is just what the UK needs in these uncertain times
Andrea Leadsom bowed to the inevitable on Monday and left Theresa May unchallenged as the next leader of the Conservative Party and more importantly our next prime minister.
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The world will keep turning despite the Brexit result
So it’s all over. The claims and counterclaims, threats and repudiations and endless hours of TV debate are all mercifully behind us.
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Who said politics was boring?
I always believed the result would be close and could have gone either way.
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Brexit not the only unedifying political debate stoking uncertainty but industry remains robust
Brexit isn’t the only issue gripping the Western world these days, although if you open any newspaper or turn on the TV you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
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In? Out? I’m bored to tears by Brexit
Every day I read in the newspaper that leaving the EU will cause a plague of frogs… while staying in will potentially cause World War Three.
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Doing nothing is not an option – we must boldly transform our London
Whoever is elected London mayor in three weeks’ time, their top priority will be housing.
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Budgetary impacts - are we really all in this together?
Last week’s Budget saw developers at Mipim rushing to complete before midnight to avoid the stamp duty rise.
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New business rates legislation strikes at the very heart of open government
One of the least appreciated yet most serious consequences of the turmoil that currently consumes the Labour party which should concern us all is that while they are so busy fighting each other, the parliamentary Labour party is not doing its job.
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A year of surprises and stability
It has certainly been a year to remember. In May, a prime minister who clearly thought he was going to lose the general election found himself in charge of a majority Conservative government.