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Asset Valuations - what's the point?
This is a question I hear quite a bit in the local authority asset valuation community – from both accountants and property valuers....
chris brain associates
Apr 21, 20236 min read
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Learning from King Lear
Can familiarity with the plays of William Shakespeare make you a better local authority property asset manager? I believe it can. At...
chris brain associates
Nov 22, 20215 min read
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The future for the department store
No one can doubt that recent years - even before the arrival of covid 19 - has seen the transformation of our high streets. No more so...
chris brain associates
Aug 20, 20213 min read
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The importance of a hat
Do you suffer from emotional attachment to inert objects? My Mum was an amateur artist. She would spend hours and days painting every...
chris brain associates
Aug 5, 20213 min read
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What Asset Managers can learn from Adam Peaty
Local authority Asset Managers can learn a great deal from the brilliant swimmer Adam Peaty. Peaty of course is an eight-time world...
chris brain associates
Jul 26, 20213 min read
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Do you aspire to be a GOAT?
What are you striving to achieve in strategic property asset management, and how do you want to be remembered for it? Maybe you have...
chris brain associates
Jul 5, 20212 min read
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Are your beliefs holding you back?
When it comes to strategic property asset management, you might be surprised how much success or failure can depend on your set of...
chris brain associates
Apr 20, 20216 min read
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culture of intimidation
Arrests, intimidation, dubious contracts and squandered millions - how England’s 10th biggest local authority failed the people it was...
chris brain associates
Mar 30, 20216 min read
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Execution of your asset strategy
Execution is an odd word. On the one hand, it means “the carrying out of a plan or course of action.” On the other, it means, “the...
chris brain associates
Mar 4, 202113 min read
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The Perils of Local Government Financial Sustainability
There is one thing that virtually everyone in the local government sector would I am sure agree on, which is that the financial...
chris brain associates
Jan 28, 20217 min read
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Not all learning is equal
Since the arrival of Covid, we have all got a little more used to engaging through webinars. What many of us have realised, is that a...
chris brain associates
Jan 18, 20213 min read
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Most people should not buy online courses
An online course assumes the only thing you are missing is information. In reality, for many online courses you probably lack the peer...
chris brain associates
Jan 7, 20214 min read
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Delivering a Financially Sustainable Property Service
The current Covid-19 health crisis has compounded existing budgetary challenges for local authorities, increasing the financial struggles...
chris brain associates
Dec 15, 20207 min read
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Local Authority Property Investment is not dead!
Just prior to the start of the pandemic, HM Treasury began a consultation on changing the borrowing rules through the Public Works Loan...
chris brain associates
Nov 26, 20207 min read
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Is the 'Risk Squeeze' increasing the risk?
There has been a great deal of debate in recent months about whether local authorities that pursue commercial income generating...
chris brain associates
Oct 21, 20208 min read
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Property asset strategy remedy
Those that know me will know that my brain sometimes works in strange ways! The current situation we are in with Covid-19 got me thinking...
chris brain associates
Mar 18, 20204 min read
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Where is the real risk?
Maybe you are a local authority Finance Director. And maybe you have been investing in commercial property the past few months in order...
chris brain associates
Mar 6, 20204 min read
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Socio-Economic Duty in Wales
On 2 2 November 2019 the Welsh Government launched a consultation on how it intends to implement a new duty on public authorities in...
chris brain associates
Dec 2, 20195 min read
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Manifesto for the future of Local Government
The current general election is no doubt going to divide opinion on who should lead the country after 12th December. Voting will often be...
chris brain associates
Nov 25, 20198 min read
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Blazing Saddles Approach to Capital Strategy?
The revisions to both the CIPFA Prudential Code and Treasury Management Code in November 2017 heralded a change in focus around both...
chris brain associates
Nov 6, 20195 min read
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