Peter Bill
Journalist at Freelance
Author: Broken Homes & Planet Property. Editor: Building (90-6) Estates Gazette (97-09) Columnist: Standard (08-15) Property Week (17-25) EG (09-17 & 25- )
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1 week ago |
estatesgazette.co.uk | Peter Bill |Tim Burke
Cranky shareholders of Landsec and British Land, sharpen your pencils. On 10 and 15 July respectively, ask spiky questions at the AGMs of Britain’s bellwether REITs. For instance: Why does it cost three times as much to run your businesses as it does LondonMetric? A fast growing eight-year-old youngster, not much smaller in size, whose shares trade close to book value. Why do we suffer a 30% or more discount? Why do your reports and accounts grow fatter, as you slowly shrink in size?
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3 weeks ago |
estatesgazette.co.uk | Peter Bill
Galbestos cladding was composed of asbestos fibres embedded in bitumen, hot-fused to corrugated steel sheets then spray-coated with melted polyester. On the evening of Thursday, 2 August 1973, toxic fumes from this poison sandwich, plus flaming fragments from the Oroglas acrylic roof panels, killed 50 and maimed 80 more in the Summerlands leisure centre fire on the Isle of Man. An inquiry was established on 3 September.
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1 month ago |
estatesgazette.co.uk | Peter Bill
In 2004, Landsec punted £15.2m, buying 1,700 acres of medieval deer park eight miles east of Stansted Airport, complete with a World War II airstrip. Last week, a set of guesses on which 12 locations will be identified by the New Towns Taskforce in July pointed to Easton Park. One of just 17 spots which tick all six boxes civil servants are sure to be checking, to give cover to politicians defending the lucky dozen. Sure?
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1 month ago |
estatesgazette.co.uk | Peter Bill
“What! The idea is appalling, it stinks. The Crown Estate must act in a way that keeps it beyond reproach. Getting into bed with Lendlease on the blighted Euston over-station development risks reputational suicide.”The opinion from one impeccable source on learning rumours last week that the Aussie property company was to sign a £24bn joint venture with the steward of what the Red Tops mischievously insist is Royal family real estate.
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1 month ago |
estatesgazette.co.uk | Peter Bill
The glum Singaporean owners of the old Stag Brewery in west London will either seek a joint venture partner or sell their 22-acre site after a 10-year fight to gain permission ended in a Pyrrhic victory last Friday. The day when planning inspector Glen Rollings said yes to 1,065 homes, 65 of them “affordable”. Berkeley seems the obvious choice but who knows? The process will further delay a start on the £1.1bn development.
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Branching out: “Urban&Civic acquires Todds Nursery, which operates across 72 hectares and holds over 22,000 trees, which will form an important part of Urban&Civic’s supply chain.” https://t.co/XvzexF4s36
Building (£) HS2 a ‘litany of failure.’ Until these litanies include the names of those who caused these failures they will continue to happen. Fear of exposure by the National Audit Office, or even in Parliament, is non-existent. https://t.co/RvvmGHky90
Estates Gazette (£) Landsec & British Land have shrunk by 35%-40% over 20 years, by City reckoning. The bellwether REITs trade at high discounts to NAV and cost 2-3 times as much to run as no-discount to NAV LondonMetric. Do these metrics matter? https://t.co/myZPRBaX08 https://t.co/Xjkoe4HsJc