All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 14
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InsightRetail property Luddites’ missed opportunities
For years middle-aged retail property men consoled themselves over the rise of the internet by saying women would not buy clothes online. “They want to touch and feel frocks, blouses and slacks” was invariably the riposte. Not any more: amid the gloom at last week’s dismal January British Retail Consortium ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Bernstein
I sat with Sir Howard Bernstein as he came out fighting in Manchester yesterday.
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Barrie blogs on Bernstein at the North West Property Awards
I sat with Sir Howard Bernstein as he came out fighting in Manchester yesterday. The Manchester City Council chief executive was one of the speakers among a star-studded line up at our North West 2010 conference and awards in the city yesterday. While Property Week readers and myself have been ...
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OnlineNorth West Property Awards - photos and winners
Peel was the big winner at last night's North West Property Awards in Manchester.
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It’s too early to pop champagne for offices
How much should we read into the new boom in the City of London office market?
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Barrie blogs on `the cloud’
What will be the workplace of the future? CoreNet Global UK President and Pricewaterhousecoopers property chief Paul Harrington was first out of the traps with this question at an illuminating seminar this morning. I chaired it, but sat back and listened to predictions from experts from Barclays Capital, EDF, Sun ...
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InsightA little local difficulty from Tory planning overhaul
What should the property industry make of the Conservatives’ radical agenda for the planning system?
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Olympic cash
Why not divert unused contingency spending for the London Olympics on the ultimate legacy of the 2012 Games?
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Barrie blogs on Olympic cash
Why not divert unused contingency spending for the London Olympics on the ultimate legacy of the 2012 Games? This is an intriguing question doing the rounds in Whitehall, regeneration and sporting circles as the Games site itself motors towards completion next year. It is wonderful news that the bulk of ...
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Barrie blogs on bullish Knight Frank
I have just emerged from the most bullish prognosis for property since go-go 2007. Knight Frank's Central London Offices breakfast at the Dorchester came up with some truly ballsy tips. That City prime rents will rise by 19% in 2010. That prime City yields will fall by up ...
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Barrie blogs on Portillo and pay
I make no apologies for returning to bankers and their bonuses after Michael Portillo raised the issue again at today’s Investment Property Forum annual lunch. The event, at the Park Lane Hilton, was attended by 600 people and Portillo was the speaker after lunch. After trotting through his now-familiar gloomy ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Portillo and pay
I make no apologies for returning to bankers and their bonuses after Michael Portillo raised the issue again at today’s Investment Property Forum annual lunch.
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InsightMergers bond private and public sectors
NB Real Estate’s impending takeover by Capita Symonds (news, p4) is significant for property, but not in the same vein as “game-changer” Drivers Jonas’s merger with Deloitte (analysis, p34)
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Barrie blogs on banks and bonuses
I am even more gripped by Andrew Ross Sorkin’s `Too Big to Fail’ after President Obama’s dramatic move to limit the activities of investment banks last week. Anyone in property reading the 600-page thriller could not have failed to notice the huge role real estate played in the ultimate collapse ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on banks, bonuses and Barack
I am even more gripped by Andrew Ross Sorkin’s `Too Big to Fail’ after President Obama’s dramatic move to limit the activities of investment banks last week.
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Giles Barrie: "Drivers Jonas rocks agency world"
WOW. Agency has started the decade with the most significant merger since the raft of US-UK tie-ups at the end of the 1990s. Deloitte combining with Drivers Jonas sends a signal about the way property might evolve over the next 10 years. One of the main reasons for the ...
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Barrie blogs on pre-election debate
The paint was almost peeling off the walls at the RICS’s newly-refurbished lecture theatre last night – as property’s election race got off to a rip-roaring start. Grant Shapps, the Conservative Housing spokesman, came under strong fire from a 100-strong audience of Property Week and Building readers in an event ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on pre-election debate
The paint was almost peeling off the walls at the RICS’s newly-refurbished lecture theatre last night – as property’s election race got off to a rip-roaring start.
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Giles Barrie blogs from the Brixton/Wheeler tribunal
In neat black woollen dress, diamond earrings and pearls, Lady Louise Patten today looked like an elegant lady spy from the 1960s of James Bond. First up as a witness at today's employment tribunal hearing with former Tim Wheeler today, the former Brixton chairman started by sliding a stiletto deep ...
