All articles by David Lawson – Page 15
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News
Up the Resolution
Resolution has made a name for itself by taking on the 'difficult' historic buildings that other developers will not touch
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Insight
Common rooms
Hotels in mixed-use schemes are becoming the norm, but they can dramatically affect the development process and the skills needed by its developers.
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Insight
Charting the course
At the helm of Chartwell Land, Mark Creedy is overseeing radical change while parent Kingfisher prepares to split.
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News
The fall and rise of the developer's developer
Stanhope founder Sir Stuart Lipton has learned his lessons from the recession and is no longer a big risk-taker
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Markets
Street credibility
London's bustling West End continues to mystify property investors with its success and with good reason
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News
Store-shop boys: new rock'n'roll messiahs
The third change of direction for Nick Vetch and Phil Burks' veteran partnership finds them mellow about Big Yellow
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Markets
Fields of dreams
While government policy favours brownfield development, buying farmland is a long-term game. We chart the rise of option agreements and the experts who advise on them
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Markets
Portals of call
Giant portals such as Yahoo may be losing favour but so-called 'mini-portals' are a vital link between the property industry and the internet.
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News
Tuesdays in Amsterdam
Jeremy Lewis is a Eurotrotting heavyweight and head of a company that is the closest thing outside the US to a REIT
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Insight
Covering their assets
You've read the argument against 'corporate PFI'. Now read how Jones Lang LaSalle believes an outsourcing boom is about to take off.
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Insight
Property's balancing act
New accounting standards announced in late 1999 may now not come into play until 2002 but the implications are still huge.
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Professional
Unplugged
Electricity is the lifeforce of the IT revolution. But despite the promises of the last Labour government, it is still expensive – and in short supply.
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News
Carey on crusading
Having fought off corporate raider Jack Petchey, Roger Carey is exploring joint ventures, securitisation and 'flexilets'
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Insight
Industrial action
Brownfield sites are looking much greener to commercial and residential builders in their race for space. But as always, the clincher is location, location, location and of course, the right timing
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Insight
Ready and cable
Abbey Business Centres prides itself on the communications links in its serviced offices. Then along came a prospective tenant who needed more...
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News
Start of a new Rayne
The new managing directors of London Merchant Securities are determined to prove that property and technology can complement each other
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Professional
Switch on for success
A run-of-the-mill enquiry in the early 1990s thrust Rogers Chapman into the hi-tech arena. But getting to grips with the jargon was just the beginning...
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News
Newiss kid in town
Cash-rich US venture capital firms speculating on UK property have been known to get burned, but this 'rich Yank' is a force to be reckoned with
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News
Share crash fear for internet hotels
Top property investors warn against pouring cash into the latest internet fashion
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Markets
Holes in net strategy
In the third and final part of our examination of the delicately poised market David Lawson examines whether agents are pinning too many hopes to the internet. And we compare the investment market here with the rest of Europe
