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...Around the table there is an arrangement of Pier Luigi Colli 1950s Modernist chairs, which Costin found on an auction site for £440. “They had torn seats, so I had them reupholstered....
...He said simplification was like painting Brighton pier while someone else was extending it to France. Take reliefs, for instance....
...Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation, which aggregates loans to the sector, said the approaching deal was “unprecedented” in size and nature, as housing associations had until...
...“The Scottish and Welsh governments are ideologically in a very different place,” said Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation, which lends to housing associations....
...Piers Williamson, chief executive of THFC, said the first drawdown under the new facility was completed last week, providing funding for the housing association GreenSquare at a long-term rate of 1.93 per...
...Piers Williamson, AHF chief executive, said the pricing of this week’s bond issue was “the tightest deal ever done” in the past three decades, during which social landlords have raised more than £60bn in...
...Piers Williamson, one of the most experienced social housing financiers, said: “They are doing a lot but they are not particularly good at expressing the job they’re doing, and their accountability is viewed...
...The government would need to introduce legislation to allow housing associations to sell houses to tenants at a discount, according to Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation...
...[but] it may not be hugely easy for some people to unpick,” said Piers Master, partner at law firm Charles Russell....
...But Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation which channels private investment into housing associations, said the biggest social landlords were now becoming more independent...
...Piers Williamson, chief executive of THFC, said British social landlords did not have the same access to finance as their counterparts on the continent....
...Piers Williamson, chief executive of the Housing Finance Corporation, a housing association funder, said: “After Cosmopolitan, investors will ask more questions about risk and differentiate between individual...
...Meanwhile, Italy’s political gridlock in the wake of last month’s inconclusive election heightened the sense of uncertainty as efforts by Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader of the centre-left Democrats, to form...
...German expressionist Emile Nolde on to organza; Sir Paul Smith, tribal patterns inspired from the Congo; and Dame Vivienne, painterly regatta stripes, perfect, she said, for a boat trip from Westminster Pier...
...Also, although I think drawstrings on shorts are a useful device, the heavily corded versions seemed more suited for mooring the wearer, drink in hand, to a pier, than swimming....
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