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Worried young couple

Disruption 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. 

Coworking

Goodbye 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?

Older woman

Why 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.

WeWork

The 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.

Rishi Sunak

More 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. 

Rising gas prices concept chart

A 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?