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Editor’s comment – 28 March 2015
Are our high streets making us fat? Are you, dear landlord/town planner/letting agent ruining our waistlines and perpetuating the country’s growing obesity problem?
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Local government reform is vital to realise economic benefits of regional devolution
Centralisation stifles progress and eats cash
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Comment: Tech tardiness presents great opportunity
FINANCE: Last week’s MIPIM harkened back to the heady days of deals and champagne. But one of this event’s differences from those of the first half of the past decade…
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Retail must go high-tech
The days of providing a box for hire to a retailer and coming back 10 years later to renew a lease are long gone. And, like it or not, retail…
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Comment: Tech is changing agency faster than you may think
Blue-chip organisations have already started using online sales tools
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Comment: Manchester powers on
Manchester was the original smart city. Since then, industry has shifted towards financial services, engineering and education. This underpins the city’s current role as European City of Science
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Editor’s comment – 21 March 2015
Don’t feel too sorry for private equity firms, but they are struggling to attract and retain talent right now.
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Comment: Red lights turn to amber
MIPIM is associated with big numbers: 21,000 participants including 3,000 chief executives and chairman, 93 countries represented, 2,225 exhibiting companies and 430 journalists. It is also intrinsically international, a time…
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Comment: Capital finds homes in Europe
In so many respects, residential investment stands apart from other real estate asset classes. It is personal, it is granular and very rarely does it offer trophy assets or prestige.
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Peter Bill: Big people, little people, tax people
Next Wednesday details of the trailed “Google tax” will presumably be unveiled in the Budget by George Osborne.
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Editor’s comment – Plotting the future for agencies
On the back of a napkin, on the deck of one of the more modest yachts along the jetty, the future of the agency world was being plotted.
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Andrew Binstock: no fan of online property auctions
One of the big themes for 2015 is online property auctions. Am I a fan of this concept? No. Not at all.