All I Want For Christmas: The Doer-Upper’s letter to Santa
Alan Page was for many years an award winning advertising creative director and founder of his own successful agency. More recently he has served on the boards of various marketing businesses and acted as a property buying agent in the South of France. He has owned numerous homes in London, Paris and Saint Tropez and has now turned his hand to small prime central London property development.
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Surrounded by lemons on Italy's Amalfi coast, Alan Page reflects on what the EU Referendum result means for London...
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It's not the neighbours that are driving doer-upper Alan Page up the (party) wall in Kensington; it's the surveyors...
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A serial property developer tells his origin story, and fears for the future of London
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