Time to meet your meat
In this event-heavy industry, marketing teams have a job on their hands creating eye-catching invitations. Credit then to Boxpark Croydon, whose YouTube invitation to a launch event for its new food and beverage shipping container development was memorable. It’s a multicultural mash-up list of dishes that customers can get their laughing gear around, set to a catchy beat. Noticeably absent, though, is MEATliquor, one if its flagship occupiers. Oh well, there’s enough to make you salivate in any case. See the video at editorial.property.rbi.web.ds
Barwell hammers the eagles
For a Crystal Palace fan, housing minister Gavin Barwell looked awfully pleased to be rubbing shoulders with a trio of ex-West Ham stars – Rio Ferdinand, Mark Noble and Bobby Zamora – when he met them this week to talk about their Legacy Foundation, which aims to provide housing and sporting facilities across the UK. Is this the cross-party, enmity-burying approach that property and politics needs?
We nearly had them
Diary is proud to have participated in Palmer Capital’s LandAid MoneyMaker challenge this year. The concept, conceived by chief executive Alex Price, was to turn £250 into as much money as possible in three months, and return it to the charity. Team EG made a mighty £12.37 profit on some rather risky spread bets on the performance of listed propcos – a 4.9% return over the period or 19.8% on an annualised basis, which is some feat in the low-return economic environment in which we find ourselves. The fact that winners Opus Land raised £6,841, of a total of £21,475, is really neither here nor there. We may protest too much…
Clash of the calendars
Awkward. BCSC (now Revo) and Completely Retail Group have sent out a grovelling apology over a scheduling issue that will see the best of retail traipsing to two conferences two weeks in a row next year – 20-21 September and 26 September. The pair describe the diary jam as “the September conundrum”.
Whips and remains
Not sure if you are a hard Brexiteer or a Bremoaner? Hold tight: you may actually be a closet Sadobrexitist – a term coined by Sir Howard Davies at MIPIM UK this week to describe someone “really enthusiastic about hard Brexit”. A vote for pleasure in economic pain?
Roll of the dice
Old Kent Road was once considered the most duff spot on the Monopoly board. It cost £60 to buy the whole street and rent started at just £2. How things have changed. In 2016 prices, the average house price on Old Kent Road is more than half a million pounds. And while Mayfair maintains the top spot, its number two – Park Lane – has fallen 12 places by value, according to a modernised version of the board by Barratt Homes.
