Finance: how property changed from a bricks to banking business

By and David Lawson David Lawson06 May 2005

Trend setter: Capital & Regional's Martin Barber was a pioneer of trusts

One successful provincial developer is renowned as such an expert at detecting when markets are weakening that he keeps a boat provisioned to sail away until economic winds start to turn back in the right direction.

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