All articles by Susan Freeman – Page 5
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Insight
How real estate is using tech to its advantage
With technology’s potential to revolutionise every aspect of the built environment now centre stage, I was delighted to be asked to sit on the judging panel for this year’s RESI hackathon.
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The great estates boost London's international profile
A recent Movers and Shakers breakfast presentation by the LSE’s Tony Travers highlighted the huge competitive advantage London gains in the global market from its great estates, including The Crown Estate (dating back to 1066), Grosvenor, Howard de Walden, Portman and Cadogan to name some of the largest.
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Shaping Cities: how the cities of tomorrow will be intelligent, sustainable and data driven
We thought long and hard about the panel for our inaugural Mishcon de Reya Shaping Cities seminar. We wanted each of our panellists to approach the urban agenda from a completely different viewpoint.
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Mipim 2018: rain doesn't stop play on day three
We woke on Thursday morning to the sound of torrential rain and the wind whistling menacingly through the windows. As we Mipim veterans know, this is bad for those hosting beach and boat parties but a boon for the conference organisers as everyone huddles into the Palais with no great ...
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Mipim 2018: day two highlights politics, housing and dinner parties
It was another bright but early start for the BPF Investors Breakfast, which always draws a great crowd. This year, in a new departure, instead of one speaker there was a panel that included Landsec chief executive Rob Noel, GVA’s Gerry Hughes and Homes England’s Louise Wyman.
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Retail detail: why going offline will be good for bricks-and-mortar retail
If you were asked to name real estate’s most dynamic disruptors, Brendan Wallace, co-founder of California-based real estate tech venture capital fund Fifth Wall Ventures, and Ross Bailey, founder of Appear Here, the ‘Airbnb for real estate’ platform, would undoubtedly be towards the top of the list.
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Insight
Mipim 2018: day one highlights DIT, TfL and diversity
Although it’s still very breezy, the sun is shining as the Department for International Trade (DIT) opens its content packed MIPIM programme with the British Property Federation.
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Professional
Will next cycle of surveyors learn lessons of boom and bust generation?
Between 1997 and 2012 the £385bn UK commercial property market was remodelled by globalisation and reshaped by the biggest boom and bust in modern history.
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Professional
Iceland’s recovery tip: put democracy before financial markets
The 2008 financial crisis brought world leaders together in an unprecedented attempt to avoid economic meltdown.
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Blogs
MIPIM BLOG: Day four - the storm of biblical proportions
Breakfast in the Carlton becomes even more surreal. The small dog is still a fixture at the breakfast buffet and today we were being captured for posterity by a film crew.
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Blogs
MIPIM 2013: Day three - starchitects, birthdays and anniversaries
An early start (trying hard to ignore the fact that it was an hour even earlier in London) for a well attended British Property Federation international investors’ breakfast.
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MIPIM 2013: Triumphant Returns
I thought I was imagining things but I really did see a small dog being led round the breakfast buffet at The Carlton Hotel this morning. Nobody batted an eyelid. If only we were quite so dog tolerant in the UK.
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Blogs
MIPIM BLOG: The storm before the calm
So here we are back in Cannes for MIPIM. The Croisette looks comfortingly familiar and despite the gloomy weather forecast it was sunny, at least to begin with.
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Professional
London’s competitiveness depends on being well connected
The blurring boundaries between work and home used to be about balance. Now “the merge” is a more apt description of how our work and social lives melt into one.
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Professional
David Brecher: property’s ‘consigliere’
Susan Freeman joins in property industry’s tributes to its “trusted adviser”
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Professional
David Brecher: property’s ‘consigliere’
Susan Freeman joins in property industry’s tributes to its “trusted adviser”
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Blogs
A view from the Shard
I was lucky to have been included in a tour of the Shard by its creator Irvine Sellar. You can’t have missed seeing the Shard, as it rises majestically on the skyline from wherever you are in London - and beyond.
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Blogs
My marathon week
With a countdown of just 72 days to the London Olympics, my week has been something of a marathon. Still not quite in the Olympic spirit? Then I suggest seeing Chariots of Fire just opened at Hampstead Theatre which as you will know from the film of that ...
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Online
BLOG: A vintage Property Week Awards
Last night has to go down as a vintage Property Week Awards Dinner. In Nick Leslau’s words ‘it’s become the Oscars of the property sector’.
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Online
MIPIM BLOG: the after party and the follow up
As much as I enjoy Cannes during MIPIM week I was ready to escape from the confines of my narrow Croisette patch bordered by the Carlton at one end and the Palais at the other.