Bring almost a thousand property people together in one room and you get a lot of noise, as I can readily attest. Opening this year’s RESI Awards, I was glad of a microphone as the hubbub threatened to drown out the few things I had to say before dinner.
The major digital security incident affecting Marks & Spencer should serve as a wake-up call to businesses of every stripe.
A sign in the lobby of 1 Ruskin Square, home to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), puts the agency’s name firmly below the words ‘HM Revenue & Customs’.
Complex, archaic and slow-changing – adjectives that could be applied to many people, companies, industries and, especially, public services. Two stories this week highlight how they are also fitting descriptors for rights-of-light laws.
This week we hear from Dee Corsi, chief executive of New West End Company, a central London Business Improvement District (BID).
Barely a month in the past, this year’s Mipim conference already feels like it belongs to a bygone era – to those languorous, sepia-tinted days before US president Donald Trump launched his frenzied attack with the big tariff blunderbuss.
We are all familiar with the notion of greenwashing – the sleazy business of adopting an apparently climate-friendly posture, while cynically carrying on as usual.
Blockbuster announcements affecting the property sector were never likely to come from this week’s Spring Statement and, on that front at least, chancellor Rachel Reeves did not disappoint.
Repeat something often enough and it will slide eventually into comedy. As numerous TV sketch shows have demonstrated, any phrase can become a catchphrase. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
More than a decade ago, I found myself in a meeting at a publishing company – one I no longer work for and not the publisher of Property Week, I hasten to add – trying to persuade senior managers not to close a print magazine in favour of online publication only.
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