by Chris | Sep 13, 2026 | Uncategorised
The dust isn’t settling — on friction, flow, and the new operating logic for commercial real estate The game has changed, and so has the stadium An awkward question, still unanswered For most of my career as a surveyor I have asked one awkward question: what is...
by Chris | Sep 13, 2026 | Uncategorised
What a 1992 question in the Estates Gazette got right, and what it took thirty-two years to prove Recently, I came across a short piece I wrote for the Estates Gazette way back in September 1992, under a deliberately simple headline: What about the occupier? It is...
by Chris Kane | May 7, 2026 | Uncategorised
The tides of uncertainty have ebbed and flowed for decades, but nowhere more dramatically than in commercial real estate. Since COVID, something seismic has happened—a shift so profound that many still refuse to name it, let alone confront it. We cling to the comfort...
by Chris | Mar 17, 2022 | Future of Work, Reflections, Uncategorised, Workplace Strategy
This week, as we Irish and our friends celebrate St Patrick’s Day, I was reminded of a character in ‘Juno and the Paycock’, the famous play by Sean O’Casey. Set in the 1920’s, the feckless old timer Captain Boyle’s final line in the play “The whole world is in...
by Chris | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorised
Many people are making powerful and persuasive arguments for a return to the office. There is a lot of merit in getting us all back to “normal” or the “new normal” – cities need the business; people need to socialise, and landlords need the rent. I had little doubt...
