All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 10
-
InsightCaution at cross-border investment summit
Munich’s giant Expo Real investment fair started with a bang – 36,000 people turned up – but ended as a damp squib as everyone left collectively realising they have big problems to solve. Investors had lost the euphoria of 2009, when property looked cheap, and the international road ahead looks ...
-
OnlineEXPO REAL: Barrie blogs on Europe's views on Britain
What was the consensus on Britain at this week’s EXPO Real investment bonanza in Munich?
-
Online
EXPO REAL: London still "most important" for investors, says CBRE
London is still “the most important city in the timezone” and is attracting investors, CB Richard Ellis’s head of EMEA capital markets, Jonathan Hull, said today.
-
Online
EXPO REAL: Giles Barrie welcomes you to Munich
Property Week editor Giles Barrie welcomes you to Munich on the first day of European property conference EXPO REAL.
-
Blogs
Barrie blogs: Big box retail could provide life after Olympics
Today’s front page news about plans to find a partner for the Olympic Village will set tongues wagging in global property circles. So what is the village like?
-
InsightLloyds will be loser in Elphinstone collapse
When Lloyds Banking Group pulled the plug on Kenmore and Kilmartin, the Scottish property community blamed the two property companies for over-expansion out ofScotland and a flamboyant manner to boot
-
Blogs
Barrie on Higgins
I will let you into a secret: I am in a drinking club with David Higgins, the newly-anointed chief executive of Network Rail. I will explain all in a minute, but first, what do I think about Higgins’ switch from the Olympic Delivery Authority to the national rail operator? ...
-
Blogs
Barrie blogs on 'lazy' 2012 bureaucrats
I almost choked on my Braised New Season Shank of Lamb at the City planning committee annual dinner last night. The reason was my astonishment at the laziness and selfishness of the hordes of sports bureaucrats who will be descending on London in 2012.
-
InsightNAMA chief outlines future as ‘property company’
Ireland’s whole society has been brought to its knees by what our former colleague John Waples once memorably described as “bankers on crack”.
-
BlogsRonson on the Pope and Candy on money laundering...
Ronson on the Pope, Candy on money laundering and Pidgley is no longer being the boss.
-
InsightClueless coalition threatens residential revival
Residential was the flavour of this week, with 850 people due to attend Property Week’s RESI 2010 conference at Celtic Manor yesterday and today. These were the big themes:
-
BlogsBarrie hits the pain barrier
I am today revealing plans to undergo severe physical pain – after severe exertions alongside a former England cricketer at the weekend.
-
InsightArchitects of failure, cornerstones of excess
Next Wednesday is the second anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers (analysis, p30-p33). The biggest property event of the last 50 years, it triggered the sharpest ever fall in property values in the UK
-
OnlineBarrie blogs on `unseemly’ Minerva rift
What should Minerva and its major shareholder Natie Kirsh do, now that the developer has won its anticipated victory at today’s Minerva EGM?
-
BlogsLet's talk about a homophobic, lecherous and ruthless developer.
How better to resume this blog after a summer `staycation’ – and the quietest market I can recall – than by talking about a homophobic, lecherous and ruthless developer?
-
InsightCommercially aware graduates will hold their value
Who should bear the responsibility for giving surveyors entering the property industry the commercial awareness they will so badly need?
-
InsightTime to end property’s all-male party
Why does the property industry still resemble a stag party? Year after year, it asks itself why it is a male-dominated sector, but year after year nothing changes
-
Insight‘Double running’ a risk for agents
What do you think of “double running”, whereby an agent collects fees for acting for both the buyer and the seller on an investment deal?
-
Insight‘Clumsy’ Pickles creates localism chaos
UK property development has come to a standstill in the wake of communities secretary Eric Pickles’ abolition of regional planning targets on 27 May
-
InsightJP Morgan casts shadow over London market
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail gives a gripping insight into the culture of JP Morgan and its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, who will be the talk of the London office market for the rest of this year
