MIPIM Blog, Day 4: Final day before saying au revoir

A lunch for Birmingham’s MIPIM contingent at the Restaurant Mandala on the beach was oversubscribed.
CBRE’s Ashley Hancox emerged from a ten hour “power nap” especially – he went to his hotel on Wednesday night for 40 winks and failed to wake up until Thursday morning. Must be the Lee Evans-look-alike’s new job, as regional head [...]

MIPIM Blog, Day 3

My day started on a serious note, with a heavyweight European Investment Briefing from the boys at CB Richard Ellis.
The very polished Nick Axford, head of the firm’s EMEA research team, said there is cause for optimism, as the investment market is picking up.
Apparently, retail property is being highly sought after across Europe, with shopping [...]

MIPIM Blog: Brum’s great and good descend on Cannes

The plane to Nice yesterday morning was packed with lots of male, middle-aged men. For a minute I thought I was on the wrong flight:  a try-before-you-buy timeshare trip, or a Saga golfing holiday charter perhaps.
But no, as Gary Taylor of Argent helpfully pointed out, here on BMI Baby Flight WW6529 was the great and good [...]

The great media debate – a damp squib?

Last Monday saw the much trumpeted debate on the state of the Midlands media take place in Birmingham.
Sadly, it turned out to be little more than a lengthy attack on Trinity Mirror’s stewardship of the two main newspaper titles in the city, the Mail and the Post.

Pen portrait – not politically correct!

Welcome to our new blog-based web site – by way of kicking things off, blog-wise, I thought I would do a pen portrait, along the same lines as the one that makes a daily appearance in Birmingham’s daily newspaper, ‘The Birmingham Post.’
The ‘Post’ pen portrait is a bit of a talking point in our office, [...]