Dealing with the fallout from the Greece crisis
With the situation in Greece reaching boiling point, the key question for the European investment world at the moment appears to be how the Greek tragedy will play out and what effect it will have on...
View ArticleA severe case of myopia
Bizarre. Disappointing. Odd. Myopic. Shocking. Ridiculous. These were some of the reactions of senior industry figures to the government’s surprise move this week to scrap the zero-carbon targets for...
View ArticleDetroit is on the road to recovery
Two years on from the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, Motown is undergoing a revival. But how deep does the recovery run?
View ArticleInterview: Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby
Henry Dimbleby exudes the confidence of someone at ease with his place in the great London food chain. And well he might.
View ArticleDelancey plans to bring back the bustle to Elephant & Castle
Elephant & Castle has been a major focus for regeneration schemes over the last five years - and not without controversy.
View ArticleProperty needs to rediscover its enterprising spirit
Enterprise. Innovation. Disruption. We all know the buzzwords and have heard how Uber, Airbnb and others are changing the business landscape forever. But what about our own sector? Is property an...
View ArticleThere is a growing opportunity for UK healthcare investors
A recent hospital visit with my ageing father provided me with first-hand experience of how a wider adoption of technology (eg. sharing of electronic medical records) could help to accelerate...
View ArticleThe advantages of being adaptable in a moving market
There has been recent speculation about whether the UK real estate market can continue on its current growth trajectory.
View ArticleA whole new attitude is required from retailers if they are to compete with...
Like-for-like sales made their way into the lexicon of the retail world in the 1980s.
View ArticlePicton take to their wheels to honour historic influence
Ten years ago, Picton Capital chief executive Michael Morris wisely turned down an agency that was proposing to charge £60,000 to come up with a name for his new company.
View ArticleInterview: The BPF's new chair Chris Taylor
With a new government, the ongoing debate over business rates and a Budget full of planning reforms, the summer has already been a busy one for the British Property Federation (BPF).
View ArticleBirmingham helps drive stellar regional office take-up
Birmingham’s booming office market has helped drive commercial take-up in the UK’s nine largest regional cities to the highest level since the downturn, according to Bilfinger GVA.
View ArticleLast chance saloon for the UK's planning system
Is George Osborne’s Productivity Plan the right way to tackle the UK’s planning crisis?
View ArticleSchool’s out for summer...
It’s that time of the year again. The sun is shining (sort of), school’s out and the property industry is putting its collective ‘out of office’ on and readying itself for a bit of R&R - and a...
View ArticleWhy so little progress helping ‘rentysomethings’?
There is a link between the reams of documentation that propose government strategies to grow the rate of housing delivery and the diminishing green belt.
View ArticleA world without physical stores is far, far away
Chewbacca and his Star Wars friends aren’t regular visitors to analyst and investor days - but they were among the cast when we welcomed 70 City property investors and analysts to our British Land...
View ArticleImage gallery: CBRE Great Property Bike Ride 2015
Property’s finest converged on the Denbies Wine Estate yesterday for the Great Property Bike Ride.
View ArticleDiversity: Don’t just invite everyone to the party, get them to dance
More diverse businesses are more successful businesses.
View ArticleIs commercial property lacking rental-recovery leg?
The ‘Grexit’ has been deferred - again, this time probably until December - but the recent pullback in share prices has lured strategic stake building in two quoted property companies.
View ArticleCould big data allow occupiers and property owners to bypass agents?
Big data has opened up new possibilities in areas of business and academia from medicine to advertising - and everything in between.
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