Property agent finds it can do without Cannes

616PM GMT 09 March 2010

The checked shirts are being pressed, the far-reaching ties packed. The UK"s skill marketplace is streamer to MIPIM, the annual bunfight in Cannes.

I suppose the champagne will be issuing again after a integrate of years of purgation for some.

Ask the consultant what can a shopping representative do for me? Homes in overwhelming locations how most for the view? Property marketplace twenty ways to buy and sell skill How to get a decent debt understanding Word on the travel London residence prices are rising

One association that is giving the eventuality a far-reaching berth is skill representative Drivers Jonas. Property watchers will recollect that DJs, as the association is known, fell tainted of the French courts for "piggy-backing" the eventuality last year and had to compensate �90,000 to the organisers of the do, Reed Midem.

This year the association is promulgation usually dual (paid for) delegates, compared to opposition DTZ"s 20-odd and Savills" around 30.

Not usually that, the association has additionally strike behind by organising a day at Cheltenham races for the clients called NICE, "Not in Cannes Event". It"s on Wednesday subsequent week, right in the center of the MIPIM week.

Sir Stelios offices an easyMistake to make

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the airline-to-offices entrepreneur, has been bustling pulling his PR. In a Sunday paper he was extolling the virtues of the internet, the US and skill amongst alternative things.

Whether this work on his picture has anything to do with the defame box he is posterior opposite opposition Michael O"Leary of Ryanair I have no idea.

But one thought does arise. "Property is king," Sir Stelios tells us in the piece. "I didn"t make use of to hold in it in conditions of investment I used to think it was irrelevant, so I longed for the last boom. Now I"m shopping land…"

If so, because is it that Sir Stelios"s stretchable bureau space operation easyOffice has possibly sealed or is shutting dual of the operations, Glasgow and High St Kensington, London?

Back in Oct easyOffice trainer Mark Smith pronounced "We right away have eight centres…"

Hmm, see on your website Mark, I equate usually six.

July 4 binds no mental recall for landowner

Following on from my square about Bank of Scotland"s new process on seductiveness rates "we don"t do them", I"m contacted by a reader with this story of the times.

"I had this new review with a bank call centre in the UK," he tells me, rising true in to the plead the span enjoyed.

"Before we can plead your comment I need to ask you a security question," the workman said. "What is your noted date or anniversary?

"I answered Jul 4, 1776."

"She remarked that this was a formidable date to remember.

"I told her it was my grandmother"s date of birth

"Ooh," she said. "She"s old."

jonathan.russell@telegraph.co.uk