All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 15
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OnlineGiles 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. "
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Blogs
North West divided over United
I am on the train back from Manchester, where all the talk is of 'Project Bluebird', 'Project Boomerang' and now 'Project Beckford'. I have been hearing about all this while chairing the judging for Property Week's North West awards, of which more later. First, 'Project Beckford'. Football fans will know ...
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Online
North West divided over United
I am on the train back from Manchester, where all the talk is of ‘Project Bluebird’, ‘Project Boomerang’ and now ‘Project Beckford’.
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News
Ticking timebomb of securitisation
What can we learn from Lloyds’ decision to put Kilmartin into receivership and to seize control of a portfolio put together by Thornfield
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Blogs
Big themes for agencies in 2010
I have had breakfast, coffee or lunch with the chief executives or senior partners of four of the top 15 agencies in the last week – and here are the big themes that emerge. 1: Consolidation : there is a growing mood that globally and in the UK 2010-11 will ...
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OnlineBarrie blogs on Kilmartin and Thornfield
Yesterday’s collapse of HBOS-backed Kilmartin Holdings and Thornfield Ventures is a grim portent for 2010.
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Blogs
Barrie blogs on Kilmartin and Thornfield
Yesterday’s collapse of HBOS-backed Kilmartin Holdings and Thornfield Ventures is a grim portent for 2010. Make no mistake, while the property market as a whole is stabilising, the banks are now stepping up the pace for a full scale clear out of their problem loans. As we explain in the ...
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Insight
Property is recovering but will be tested in 2010
Here are our 10 predictions for 2010: 1 It will be a better year for agents as activity rises overall. The biggest losers will be property lawyers, who have not cut hard enough yet. 2 Salaries at all firms will remain completely flat. 3 Whichever government takes ...
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Blogs
Burj Khalifa – great construction or great development?
Property has been in the world’s headlines this week with the opening of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s `Burj Khalifa’ – until Monday known simply as the `Burj Dubai’. `Burj’, by the way, means `tower’, and the colossus has been renamed `Khalifa’ on honour of the president of Abu Dhabi ...
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OnlineMinerva completes major City pre-let
Minerva today confirmed that it completed a major City of London pre-let to law firm Clyde & Co – giving full details of the terms for the deal.
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Blogs
Barrie’s blog: winners and losers of the 'noughties'
Here are my awards for property’s winners and losers in the `noughties’. Having started at Property Week in 1999, after a seven year spell on construction magazines followed a 1988-1991 stint at Estates Times, it has been a fascinating decade to watch I would love to hear your views, too, ...
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Blogs
A 52,000 seat future for the Olympic stadium
I have thought of a long-term use for the Olympics Stadium – and how to help save West Ham. For months ministers and the Olympic Park Legacy Company has been agonising over how to prevent the 80,000-seat 2012 stadium turning into a white elephant after the games. 80,000 seats is ...
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OnlineBLOG: A 52,000-seat future for Olympics stadium.
I have thought of a long-term use for the Olympics Stadium – and how to help save West Ham.
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InsightPositive prognosis for property proves prescient
Here is how our 10 predictions for 2009 fared
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Blogs
Barrie blogs on `childish’ Asda
I loathe censorship and I hate bullies. So the news that Savills has been sidelined by Asda after one of its executives voiced legitimate views on proposed new planning rules puts the store at the bottom of my Christmas card list. To recap, Savills’ director of retail planning Jeremy Hinds ...
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Blogs
Red Ken vs blue blood
Just back from chairing the Movers Shakers breakfast at the Dorchester, where panellists Ken Livingstone, Adrian Wyatt, Sir Bob Kerslake and Liz Peace did the 300-strong audience proud. Ken was on the best form of all – slating the Prince of Wales for intervening in Chelsea Barracks. ...
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InsightClean up public property to clear UK debt
Cost cutting has been at the heart of the political agenda this week — and property savings will be at the heart of any new government’s plans
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Blogs
Giles Barrie’s Pre-Budget Report blog shows little to turn property on
For property the reaction to the Pre-Budget report will be pretty lukewarm. Congratulations first to the business centres lobby for winning an extension to empty rates relief for another year for premises with a rateable value below £18,000. Housebuilders, too, have won a desperately needed promise to reduce the `impact ...
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Pre-budget blues for UDCs
Next Wednesday’s pre-budget report will not be the most significant for the property industry – but could have serious repercussions for the regeneration world. I am hearing increasing speculation that the Government will next week announce that at least one of the UK’s three urban development corporations is to be ...
