2020 – a year we’d rather forget

By Chloë McCulloch2020-12-11T06:00:00

But let’s try to find some positives amid all the gloom

It has been year like no other – at least, let us hope subsequent years prove that to be the case. As 2020 draws to a close, it is worth remembering, however painful, what we have all been through over the past 12 months.

Our annual review covers key events and mishaps, but the inescapable fact is that the pandemic has overshadowed every aspect of life from March onwards. It is strange to think that back then one of the first inklings of the disruption about to unfold was the cancellation of the Cannes property jamboree that is Mipim.

Little did we know what was to come: national lockdowns, rising coronavirus death rates, site closures, jobs furloughed (few people even knew what the word meant), offices abandoned, city centres left empty, plummeting revenues and of course large-scale redundancies.

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