Ian Cundell Journalist
Property Week
Stories by this contributor.
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Abu Dhabi backtracks to bail out Dubai World
14 December 2009
Abu Dhabi has reversed its stance on Dubai debt and provided $10bn to help state-owned holding company Dubai World meet its obligations, including $4.1bn needed to repay an Islamic bond maturing today for the property company Nakheel.
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Chase real estate guru quits in strategy ruckus
17 December 1999
Cesar Chekijian, Chase Manhattan’s corporate real estate boss, has left after a disagreement over the banking giant’s global property strategy.A pioneering figure in the world of corporate real estate for 25 years, Chekijian ended his 17-year relationship with the US’s second-largest bank after it introduced the first in a series of property outsourcing measures.In response to shareholder criticism over its exposure to property, the bank has formed a new organisati
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Ten years on
17 December 1999
As 1999 ends, we ask how today’s market differs from that of 1989, when the industry last prospered. First, this report looks at the role of research. Then, we hear key players’ memories of the crash few foresaw
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A night on the Midtown
3 December 1999
Midtown in the mid-1990s was a desolate place. Now it is a 24-hour community with an impressive list of occupiers. This report charts the transformation and what the area has to offer
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A leisurely road to success
14 May 1999
‘I’ve got a 40-minute drive to work with the radio on, compared to 50 minutes with my face in somebody’s armpit. It’s not a difficult choice is it?’ Not my words or anybody’s in this survey, but those (more or less) of a former colleague on moving from London to Manchester.Various surveys in Property Week have touched on quality of life and Manchester seems to have that indefinable something. I must confess that I can’t quite pin it down myself. Whene
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The revolution within
14 May 1999
In his first interview since taking on the role of group development director at Grosvenor Estate Holdings, Stephen Musgrave spells out his development philosophy to us.
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Wanted: support for a bold vision
1 April 1999
Longer ago than I care to remember, I took driving lessons on Beddington Farm Road, off Purley Way, in Croydon. I presume there was a farm there once, but for a long time, my main image of the area was the looming chimneys of what I assumed was a redundant power station. It looked like a permanently marginalised area – neither central nor out of town.It came as a bit of a surprise, a couple of years later, to take a drive to the area and find the chimneys emblazoned with the blue paint
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A lesson in practical planning
26 March 1999
In the wake of the opening of Britain's last regional shopping centre – Kent's Bluewater – it's curious to see that one of the earlier ones still has the capacity to make waves. There is a right old hoo-hah going on in Dudley over proposals to designate Merry Hill – one of the original out-of-town centres – as a Town Centre. Call me radical, but I think it's a fine idea. Much as opponents of out-of-town developm
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Mersey blues? Don’t believe a word
19 March 1999
I would be willing to bet that the only reason most southerners visit Liverpool is because of football. And yes, I am guilty: if West Ham had not been visiting Anfield, I probably would not have made my recent trip.This would have been a shame, since you only need to wander around for a little while to get an insight into what the city has to offer and what, I suspect, is its biggest problem.It is a city on a human scale, yet it has some magnificent architecture. But it is not clear to
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Surveying firms' fee earners the 1999 listing
19 March 1999
Merger mania makes its mark in the second Property Week UK Fee Earners Survey.
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Urbs in rure: the Berkshire set-up
19 February 1999
Ask property people what Berkshire means to them and they will wax lyrical about high technology, pharmaceuticals and other industries at the leading edge of innovation.Ask the man on the Clapham omnibus, and there is a good chance he will talk more of rolling acres and hunting, shooting and fishing. Berkshire’s great contradiction is that it is both one of the great centres of modern industry and overwhelmingly rural in character (take a train out of Paddington and, once you are past
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Leading from the front in Leeds
12 February 1999
Over the years, the British have become so used to associating the word 'shortage' with bad things – rationing, oil crises and the like – that it is a little peculiar to see it as a sign of rude health.Yet in Yorkshire – at the commercial heart in Leeds or in other centres from York to Hull – shortage of stock is a recurring theme. Whether in Leeds, off the back of a string of large deals, or in York and Sheffield, through the process of recovery, or in Hull, where the
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Leagues apart in regeneration game
12 February 1999
Often you can tell a lot about a region by its football teams. Lancashire has Blackburn Rovers, a solid performer, well-backed with substantial local money, but always a bit unfashionable. Rarely a first choice, big-name outsiders need pretty good incentives to be enticed there. Cumbria has Carlisle United – enough said.Perhaps the comparison's a bit simplistic, but it's undoubtedly true that when the new North-west Regional Development Agency comes into being, it will inherit an area o
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Softly, softly in the fast lane
5 February 1999
