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chris brain associates
- Apr 21
- 6 min
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....
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chris brain associates
- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Aug 5, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Jul 5, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Apr 20, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Mar 30, 2021
- 6 min
culture of intimidation
Arrests, intimidation, dubious contracts and squandered millions - how England’s 10th biggest local authority failed the people it was...
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chris brain associates
- Mar 4, 2021
- 13 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Jan 28, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Jan 7, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Dec 15, 2020
- 7 min
Delivering a Financially Sustainable Property Service
The current Covid-19 health crisis has compounded existing budgetary challenges for local authorities, increasing the financial struggles...
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chris brain associates
- Nov 26, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Oct 21, 2020
- 8 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Mar 18, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Mar 6, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Dec 2, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Nov 25, 2019
- 8 min
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...
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chris brain associates
- Nov 6, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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