All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 12
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OnlineBarrie blogs on property's top ten risks
What are the top 10 risks facing property asset managers?
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Property's top 10 risks
What are the top 10 risks facing property asset managers? This was the subject of a fascinating debate I chaired this morning at the EC3 offices of giant insurance broker Marsh. Around the table were asset managers from Legal & General, F & C Reit, Ashtenne and CB Richard Ellis, ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on a volcanic ash "balls-up"
David Coffer is stuck in Miami, INREV’s conference in Venice was cancelled, and Richard Caring’s partner Nick Jones believes London is noticeably quieter this week.
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Barrie blogs on volcanic ash `balls-up’
David Coffer is stuck in Miami, INREV’s conference in Venice was cancelled, and Richard Caring’s partner Nick Jones believes London is noticeably quieter this week. All are innocent victims of this week’s ridiculous health & safety gone mad saga over Icelandic volcanic ash. A deathly combination of the Meteorological Office, ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on the softening market
Is the property market softening? Having spoken to a top investor, top developer and top adviser this week I have to confess it is.
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Is the property market softening?
Having spoken to a top investor, top developer and top adviser this week I have to confess it is. There are several reasons, some more important than others. First, of course, the election and the slow down it was always likely to cause. Second, an Easter holiday period that has ...
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Insight
Tories’ idealism would quickly turn to realism
Property has had a severe attack of Conservative anxiety this week
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Ronson’s `10 commandments’
King of the house builders Tony Pidgley today told us his friend the `Guv’nor’ Gerald Ronson’s 10 Commandments for property success in a speech at the Heron annual lunch.
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Ronson’s `10 commandments’
King of the house builders Tony Pidgley today told us his friend the `Guv’nor’ Gerald Ronson’s 10 Commandments for property success in a speech at the Heron annual lunch. Here they are: 1: Keep it simple 2: Control everything 3: Put your own money into deals 4: Buy prime 5: ...
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Election Week One
What should property make of the first week of the election campaign? Firstly, that the industry is going to play a bigger part than usual in the big debate. This is because property is at the very heart of yesterday’s big talking point: efficiency savings. Our own Professional Editor and ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Election Week One
What should property make of the first week of the election campaign? Firstly, that the industry is going to play a bigger part than usual in the big debate.
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Insight
In defence of the Crown Estate
What is the Crown Estate? That is the question at the heart of a damning report released last week by the Treasury Committee, which comprises eight Labour, four Conservative and two Liberal Democrat MPs.
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Wheeler `tragedy’
I went along to the Tim Wheeler industrial tribunal again today – and the overwhelming feeling about the whole episode is now one of sadness.
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Barrie on Wheeler `tragedy’
I went along to the Tim Wheeler industrial tribunal again yesterday – and the overwhelming feeling about the whole episode is now one of sadness. The former chief executive of Brixton has had his say, and his former board colleagues led by ex-chairman Lady Patten have had their say – ...
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OnlineBarrie Blogs: A very open banker
I haven’t yet heard a banker speak more openly than Lloyds’ managing director for corporate real estate Richard Dakin this week.
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Bonuses of contention at big firms
It’s champagne all round at CB Richard Ellis, which this week dished out up to £35m in bonuses in the UK
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OnlineBLOG: Barrie on Boris’s Olympic Orbit
My spies in City Hall tell me the Mayor is gearing up any day to launch `Olympic Orbit 2012’ – his personal legacy from London’s Games.
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Barrie on Boris’s Olympic Orbit
My spies in City Hall tell me the Mayor is gearing up any day to launch `Olympic Orbit 2012’ – his personal legacy from London’s Games. Over a drink in Southwark last night a GLA friend showed me the plan for the Anish Kapoor-designed viewing tower. I would attempt to ...
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InsightAccountants’ ploys torpedo retail property
In football if you go into administration, you are deducted 10 points
