All articles by Claer Barrett – Page 2

  • Barry Cox
    News

    Hands across the water

    Global February 2008

    Claer Barrett meets Barry Cox, associate director at DTZ’s Bangkok office, and Chris Halliwell, manager at DTZ’s Bangalore office

  • Markets

    A weighty resolution

    04 January 2008

    Working in the property industry can not only make you fat. It also makes it extremely tough to slim down, as Property Week managing editor Claer Barrett discovered during her year-long battle of the bulge

  • Markets

    London crawling

    21 December 2007

    Record deals and a huge development pipeline, but is the capital past its prime? Asks Claer Barrett

  • News

    Light brigade charges at Bishops Quarter

    21 December 2007

    Shoreditch Light Bar owner challenges Hammerson’s 4.5m sq ft scheme

  • News

    Anglian Water’s secret sale of property arm

    07 December 2007

    PricewaterhouseCoopers appointed for £30m appraisal

  • Insight

    The Hot 100: 26 - 50

    07 December 2007

    26 Fergus Farrell Quinlan Private Director Fergus Farrell, 34, joined Quinlan Private in 1999 after working at KPMG and developer Dunloe Ewart . Over the last few years he has been involved in large deals in the UK and Europe, including the €530m purchase of the Estate in Knightsbridge in ...

  • Insight

    The Hot 100: 51 - 75

    07 December 2007

    51 Tom Tyler Chester Properties Chester Properties director and petrol head Tom Tyler, 35, joined the company in 1999 after five years at Savills . Chester was then restructured in 2002 to form Chester Properties Asset Management, which owns 12 retail schemes worth £400m. Tyler has three small children and ...

  • Insight

    The Hot 100 : 76 - 100

    07 December 2007

    76 Darragh MacAnthony MRI Overseas Property Dublin-born and educated Darragh MacAnthony, 31, is the founder and chairman of MRI Overseas Property, an estate agent for holiday villas. This year, he bought Peterborough United Football Club, and plans not only to relocate the ground but also to inspire the Second ...

  • Insight

    The Hot 100: 1 - 25

    07 December 2007

    We asked you to tell us, and over the last six weeks, more than 1,000 votes were cast via text and web poll. The results show the new names across all areas of property – aged 35 and under – who will dominate tomorrow’s headlines. And to recognise those waiting ...

  • Treasury triumvirate: Robert Tincknell, Richard David and Richard Barrett on the Bund in Shanghai
    News

    Sing when you’re winning

    Global November 2007

    The men behind Treasury Holdings’ Chinese investment fund explain its ‘karaoke’ approach to doing deals in China.

  • News

    Dynamic Duality

    Global November 2007

    The positives and negatives are finely balanced in China’s burgeoning property market. Claer Barrett reports from Shanghai on the ‘yin and yang’ of investment

  • Pure In the Loup: Grosvenor’s Asia chief is developing offices, retail and homes, such as the Lakeville apartment complex in Shanghai and Castle Peak in Hong Kong
    News

    Crossing continents

    Global November 2007

    Nick Loup is the man charged with driving forward Grosvenor’s Asian expansion. Claer Barrett caught up with him in Shanghai

  • Chinese Cities
    News

    Secondary considerations

    Global November 2007

    Investors are flocking to China’s second-tier cities.

  • News

    Karaoke Kings can rule chinese market

    Global November 2007

    In the wake of the global credit crunch, gaining exposure to Asian real estate is the ideal way of harmonising your portfolio.

  • News

    Let the games begin

    Global November 2007

    Next year’s Olympics have prompted an unprecedented construction boom in Beijing.

  • News

    Georgian to list in London for Tbilisi development drive

    02 November 2007

    Country’s largest developer seeks funding for first schemes in 20m sq ft programme

  • Nights on Broadway: despite the crunch, funding was found for Ediston’s scheme
    Markets

    Central belt tightens

    19 October 2007

    Funding for speculative offices is scarce as institutions sit on their hands because of the credit crunch.

  • Parental purgatory: we exposed shocking policies
    News

    Jones Lang LaSalle shakes up maternity policy

    5 October 2007

    Property Week exposé leads to reform of benefits described as ‘poor in sector’

  • News

    The global market in minutes

    Global October 2007

    Claer Barrett brings you news from across the world’s markets

  • News

    Partners in crime

    Global October 2007

    Cons, bribes and missing owners … Claer Barrett reports on the pitfalls of finding a local partner