All Leader articles – Page 5
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NewsBeacons of Britain over 70 years
Assembling a star list of significant or iconic British buildings is never going to be easy.
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InsightA sense of perspective
Welcome to the Summer 2022 edition of Perspectives, Property Week’s thought leadership supplement that aims to provide a series of in-depth essays examining some of the most pressing issues facing the industry and society at large. This issue certainly doesn’t disappoint on that front.
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NewsLondon’s ‘new normal’ is emerging
London’s status as one of the top international destinations where people want to live and work has been a hot talking point for some time.
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NewsMy British Landsec dream fades
It’s that time of year again, when we get to compare two of the UK’s largest REITs that I have often said should consider merging to form a real powerhouse.
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NewsCheckout a new way of working
With Messrs Branson and Musk now offering joyrides into orbit for a mere £200,000 or so, you could be forgiven for thinking that the ‘space race’ is over.
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InsightBack to the ballroom?
Over the past year, the auctions market has more than proved that it can adapt with the times. While the retail sector is still weighing up the high street’s future and the office sector is frantically encouraging employees to return, auction houses have had a whale of a time.
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NewsDisruption on another level
This week, I had the privilege of beginning a short stint as Property Week’s interim editor and, looking at some of the content in this issue, it struck me that the industry mood is changing.
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InsightLet the good times roll on a little longer
During my first stint at Property Week in the early 2000s I was given the sheds patch.
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NewsGoodbye and good luck!
Is the great return to the office finally back on? With Jacob Rees-Mogg on the war path, it probably is for civil servants, but what about everyone else?
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NewsDon’t forget to be awesome
Let’s be honest. The property industry has a pretty poor reputation.
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NewsWhy don’t you mind the gap?
With all the promotions and pay rises dished out by the leading surveying firms in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for thinking that great strides are finally being made in redressing the gender imbalance in the industry’s senior ranks. Sadly, not so.
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NewsThe rise, fall and rise of WeWork
It has been coming. We all knew that as we emerged from the pandemic, businesses would review their workplace needs. Some would revert to what they had prior to Covid. Some would downsize. Others would open satellite offices or take flexible workspace to support a smaller head office.
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NewsMore pain, no gain
May we live in less interesting times. This Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the UK entering lockdown for the first time.
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NewsA return to the dark ages?
I was born in late 1971, so while my memory of coming back from nursery to a dark home is somewhat hazy, I do just about recall it. We had hyper-inflation, a worldwide oil crisis and an unwinnable war against those evil commies. Sound familiar?
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NewsA letter from Ukraine…
It’s Wednesday 23 February. I arrive in Kyiv to cover this phoney war. A war of words. No one believes Vladimir Putin will dare carry out his ludicrous threats of war.
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NewsA game of Russian roulette
How many times this week have we heard commentators call on the West to meet force with force, as that is all Vladimir Putin understands?
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InsightPredicting the future
Predicting the future is a thankless task. In 2012, not even the best minds in the world would have been able to predict Donald Trump’s presidency, Brexit or a global pandemic.
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NewsNow’s the time for radical climate action
People often say ‘the greater the challenge, the greater the opportunity’, particularly in this industry. Not when it comes to the climate emergency, though. ‘The greater the challenge, the greater the threat’ is the more likely refrain.
