I’ve learned a few things in the last couple of years since the credit crunch really bit, and one of them is that things change. You are only a temporary custodian of anything, whether it’s your kids or a building.
I’ve got a piece of land in White Post Lane, just across the road from the Olympic site in Stratford
I’ve been trying to work out when – and why – Shoreditch became the centre of the universe. How did it happen? It’s amazing. All the trendiest and most fashionable restaurants are now in London’s East End
In my last Property Week column at the beginning of the year, I tried to cheer things up by recounting what I thought was an amusing little moral tale, which resulted in my being accused, through the letters page, of being sexist.
I used to listen to the news on the radio all day long. And I read the papers and journals and watched TV. I wanted – needed – to know what was going on in the world every second of the day and the modern media was able to satisfy…
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