All articles by Claer Barrett – Page 8
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Markets
A bespoke solution
Savile Row landlord Pollen Estate is attempting to attract high-fashion retailers without pushing out the street's traditional tailors.
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Markets
The £100 question
Claer Barrett asked 50 property industry pundits whether West End rents will breach £100/sq ft this year and if so, which building will do it
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Online
20-30-40-50
Each week we meet a property figure from a different age bracket. Claer Barrett dropped in on Tony Gerver (pictured) and Michael Freedman, 56 and 59, sole partners of West End niche practice Gerver Freedman, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this week
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Insight50 Reasons not to be a developer
While ftse 100 goliaths such as land securities and british land dominate the headlines, most property development in britain today is carried out by small, private developers. But the developer's lot is not a happy one. the ultra-competitive market, the planning regime, the economics of deals, do-gooders and busybodies, so-called ...
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News
England expects expansion as he takes reins at Atisreal
Head of agency Mark England steps up to chief executive as part of ‘top five' strategy
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News
BNP Paribas launches €600m Euro fund
French bank and subsidiary Atisreal kick-start property fund business
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InsightKeeping up with the Joneses
Four stalwarts of Jones Lang LaSalle’s class of ’88 are reuniting to help reinvigorate the world leader where they started their careers.
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Markets
Forged letter fails to reduce value of residential lot
Investor tries to swindle property owner with fake council notice alleging structural damage
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MarketsHow the garden grows
One of London’s oldest livery companies is teaming up with innovative West End retail landlord Shaftesbury to transform a 2 acre corner of Covent Garden.
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News
Retailers may sue over Castlepoint closure
Asda and TK Maxx consider action after Bournemouth centre closes
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NewsKen’s ‘Mr Olympics’ taken off 2012 team
LDA’s Winterbottom moved to ‘other big projects’ as part of reshuffle
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Markets
God vs the games
The pastor of a Stratford church is one of hundreds of occupiers fighting compulsory purchase orders over land and property in the Olympic zone. Photograph by Michael Collins
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News
Livingstones win West End record letting
London & Regional signs BDO Stoy Hayward at M&S Baker Street revamp
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MarketsKilmartin to develop 3,000 homes at Oxfordshire quarry
Joint venture with private group plans £450m rail-linked settlement
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MarketsRoom with a view
Rents are getting higher and so are the requirements, as occupiers look for office space with good-quality views of the capital.
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MarketsPaddington flair
The shortage of large-floorplate space in the West End is drawing occupiers out to Paddington.
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MarketsLast Christmas
Dickins & Jones is spending its final Noel on Regent Street (below), leaving an opportunity for a new scheme at a top London location.
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MarketsPrivate buyers shop for Oxford Street bargains
Two Irish and one Brit behind trio of retail sales on West End’s main thoroughfare
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MarketsThe making of Baker Street
London & Regional’s plans for transforming Marks & Spencer’s former headquarters on Baker Street are exclusively revealed here. Claer Barrett reports on a spectacular plan by architect Ken Shuttleworth’s Make
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InsightIt’s a dirty job
...but someone has to regenerate the UK’s ‘dirty dozen’ deprived sites. That someone is US regeneration expert Bill Boler. Photographs by Mischa Haller
