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Anthony Lorenz

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Councils are wrong to block new PDR

3 September 21

I do not often get angry, but your cover story on 17 of 35 London local planning authorities prohibiting automatic permitted development rights coming into effect from 31 July 2022, when the old office-to-residential PDR will cease to have effect, infuriated me.

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Covid-19 pandemic causes rent review challenge

16 July 21

Editor: Rent reviews are difficult enough to value at the best of times, but there are two major problems in finding the correct market rental values as a result of Covid-19.

Office

The traditional office has advantages over flexi space

30 July 20

Editor: I have followed your articles by Steve Jude, chief executive of NewFlex, on the whys and wherefores of the service office market for many years and have always found him optimistic about the serviced office market competing with, and perhaps taking over, from the traditional market.

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What next for the co-working sector?

14 August 19

Editor: Over the past seven years, we have seen the meteoric rise of serviced offices and co-working operators such as WeWork and The Office Group taking long-term leases and buying freeholds.

Homebase

The current CVA process is not fit for purpose

17 October 18

For many years, I have represented tenants against landlords, mainly in the retail and leisure industry, by restructuring leases often at reduced rents or with rent-free periods. In many cases, the alternative is that tenants fail to pay rent, which leaves landlords with empty properties.

Purplebricks

Reality bites for Purplebricks

10 April 18

The share slump in Purplebricks, leader in the online ‘sell your own home’ market, doesn’t surprise me, nor does its previous meteoric rise.

Brexit

A risk premium? The market now is busier than ever

28 October 16

I was very interested to read the comment by Anne Kavanagh covering her concerns about investing in today’s post-Brexit-vote market and the UK’s “risk premium” created because of the uncertainty of current negotiations being handled between the UK and our European counterparts.

Brexit

Are fund withdrawals over exaggerated?

12 July 16

If we had voted remain instead of leave, Great Portland Estates and Derwent would arguably have been the two companies with the best development pipeline of any developers in the central London market.