All articles by Claer Barrett – Page 4

  • Bangalore (all pictures) is a hotbed of speculative office development but a lack of marketing and road signs means it can be difficult to distinguish between them.
    Markets

    The heat is on

    Skyline April 2007

    India’s emerging office and outsourcing market has as many twists and turns as a Bollywood movie. Claer Barrett reports from the world’s second fastest-growing economy

  • Markets

    To boldly go

    Skyline April 2007

    By opening Regus centres in all corners of the world, Mark Dixon is going all out to prove that his serviced office specialist can be recession-proof after all. Illustration by David Lyttleton

  • Mall sprawl: half-empty malls and heavy traffic have not discouraged speculators from building malls on Delhi’s overcrowded MG road there will soon be 13 to choose from
    Markets

    Shopping mad

    Global April 2007

    Claer Barrett tours a chaotic Delhi suburb that typifies the Indian mania for malls

  • Mall or nothing: Sohail Yousuf, ‘Lion of Brigade Road’, is one of the 50 retailers on the bustling street who have clubbed together to fight back against the onslaught of mall development
    Markets

    The lions share

    Global April 2007

    Could the 15 million shopkeepers that make up 97% of Indian retail ever be happy in modern malls? Claer Barrett reports from Bangalore

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    Insight

    The surveyor of Kabul

    20 April 2007

    Richard Scarth has set up his own practice in one of the most dangerous countries on earth. Claer Barrett went to Afghanistan to meet …

  • West meets east: Horizon’s Market City is planned for Malad, a northern suburb of Mumbai, and will be funded by foreign capital.
    Markets

    India’s new shrines

    Global April 2007

    Indian developers and foreign investors hope to lure young shoppers into new monster malls. Claer Barrett reports from Mumbai

  • Markets

    Industrial occupiers want to do Own thing, proves developer

    Property Direct April 2007

    Own Your Own launches nationwide expansion drive following record demand.

  • Markets

    David: I told Alex to go for it

    Global April 2007

    I've known Alex for years, as a friend of the family. Over time, I've become something of a big brother to him or so I like to think. I set up Ereira Mendoza in 1990, but Alex didn’t start working in property properly until 1997, when he joined Allsop.

  • Markets

    Alex: David should definitely come and visit

    Global April 2007

    David was so excited when I told him I was moving out to Mumbai.

  • The Exemplar team, chill out on Isola 2000’s slopes before whipping down the pistes in the final race.
    Insight

    Snow patrol

    05 April 2007

    Exemplar and more than 80 guests took to the slopes at Isola 2000. Claer Barrett went with them

  • Room to roam: a boulevard above the rail tunnels separates the hotels (in brown, top) from the offices (in green)
    Markets

    A twist in Tiger’s tale

    Scotland supplement 2007

    Tiger Developments has scrapped office and retail plans for Edinburgh’s Haymarket in favour of a scheme led by the city’s hot new subsector: hotels.

  • Markets

    Family values

    Scotland supplement 2007

    Claer Barrett meets David Smith, 45, Land Securities’ regional director in Glasgow, and his sister, Val Hunter, 40, a senior property surveyor at Strathclyde University. Both are chartered surveyors.

  • Markets

    Edinburgh rocks

    Scotland supplement 2007

    Claer Barrett reports from the launch of the Scottish Property Federation.

  • Markets

    Buy-to-let ghetto

    Scotland supplement 2007

    There has been an explosion in housebuilding in north Edinburgh. All it needs now are residents.

  • Going gets turf: Tritax’s Eurocentral plan has spurred
    Markets

    Miles better

    Scotland supplement 2007

    Office rents in Glasgow are now on a par with Edinburgh.

  • Tony McGough
    Online

    20-30-40-50

    2007-03-08T15:06:00Z

    Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Claer Barrett meets Tony McGough, 39, head of forecasting and the economy (EMEA) at Jones Lang LaSalle

  • Online

    Brankin calls for 'change of culture' at SPF launch

    2007-03-01T10:07:00Z

    Scottish communities minister Rhona Brankin last night urged the property industry to voice its views on regeneration and the planning system to bring about 'a change of culture' in government

  • Picture this: rents at Chunghwa site will be cheaper than city centre
    News

    Glasgow to host huge spec office scheme

    23 February 2007

    Tritax and Bank of Scotland to fund 1m sq ft out-of-town development

  • Markets

    Family values

    Shed supplement 2007

    Claer Barrett meets Jeremy Greenland, 37, managing director, south, at Astral, and his brother, Tim Greenland, 36, an associate director in the office and industrial team at Colliers CRE

  • Markets

    The market in minutes

    9 February 2007

    Claer Barrett and Mark Shepherd give you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region