All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 17
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Insight
Grass is only greener for property’s stars
Mike Hussey, Andrew Jones, Mark Stirling, Simon Holley, Simon Blake, Paul Smith, Keith Dowley, Nigel Fox — the list of big names lezaving property companies and advisers is one of the stories of the autumn
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Blogs
Bailiffs top agenda at Landlord Masterclass
Bailiffs were the biggest talking point at last night’s Mishcon de Reya/Property Week `Landlord’s Masterclass’. A collection of 100 of Britain’s most prominent landlords bared their teeth by revealing that sending the boys round is still the most effective means of collecting late rent. Actually, `sending the boys round’ might ...
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Blogs
Four-figure attendance signals `conference of the future’
Hold on to your hats – Property Week’s first `virtual’ conference kicked off this morning. The idea is for people to sit at their computers and learn about property and the market in the UK. No need to go to an expensive show or more importantly, to have to ...
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Insight‘Otto’ props up tough UK market
The term doing the rounds at Expo Real was “extend and pretend”: that is what banks that are rolling over loans are doing
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Online
EXPO Blog: Public sector under-represented in Munich
Jeremy Helsby, Simon Hope, Iain Reid, Bob Kidby, Xavier Pullen and Ian and Richard Livingstone were in Munich – but where were their rivals and most importantly of all, the British public sector?
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Blogs
UK must try harder at EXPO REAL
Jeremy Helsby, Simon Hope, Iain Reid, Bob Kidby, Xavier Pullen and Ian and Richard Livingstone were in Munich – but where were there rivals and most importantly of all, the British public sector? While some of property’s biggest names were at EXPO Real, the City of London and other UK ...
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Blogs
Weak pound makes EXPO REAL painful
Jeepers! Asking for £100 to be changed into Euros at Victoria yesterday I was given the princely sum of 99 Euros 82 cents back. Now I know the exchange booths fleece you, but it shows just how weak the pound has become. It made the Easyjet Seven Up and Mars ...
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Blogs
John Richards' leaving party from Hammerson
John Richards’ leaving party from Hammerson last night was one of the property parties of the year. `I’m not sure whether so many people are here because they like John, or because they aren’t getting out very often,’ said one contented guest. In truth, both reasons were true. The outgoing ...
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InsightThe number’s up for housebuilders
Property Week’s Resi 09 conference got the City talking about housebuilding. And Barratt and Redrow followed suit last week by announcing £843m in equity issues to buy land
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Blogs
Reporting in from 2010 IAS Awards
Just back from the Industrial Agents Society annual awards with 280 shed-shifters at London’s Park Lane Hotel. Hosted by comedian Bob Mills [more on him later], the event had an upbeat feel that even the most optimistic industrial player could not have imagined a few months back. First, the ...
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Blogs
Salway preparing to dust off cheque book again
Francis Salway was one of the many industry big guns who came to the Property Week re-design party in Savile Row last week. He wasn’t, of course, one of the hardened drinkers who accompanied our team to the Burlington Arms for celebratory drinks afterwards. "Malcolm Dalgleish was on good form, ...
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InsightTime for banks to cash in on property’s mini-boom
Hermiston Gait retail park in Edinburgh is typical out-of-town fare
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InsightCABE at 10 needs new list of priorities
‘Cuts’ is this week’s buzzword. Gordon Brown, George Osborne and Vince Cable are queuing up at long last to get stuck into public sector waste
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InsightProperty patient still needs intensive care
On September 12 2008 we wrote: ‘Yes, the next 12 months will be incredibly tough. But – fingers crossed – we will be back with reasons to be cheerful at MIPIM.’
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InsightSongbird salvation is best news of 2009
‘Songbird shot’ and ‘Canary crashes’ would have been the worst possible headlines for the property industry – so last week’s rescue rights issue at Songbird is fabulous news for a sector that is still a nervous wreck
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InsightRICS needs to feel members' pain
Three news stories grab the eye this week – and we will leave it to you to decide if they are related or not
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InsightSocial housing folly of biblical proportions
If Qatari Diar paying £959m for Chelsea Barracks was the peak of private sector, boom-time residential extravagance, a saga we outline today is the high watermark for the social housing world. The story of housing association Genesis Housing Group’s project in Stratford, east London (residential + regeneration, p48-p50) is ...
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MarketsHarvey mettle
Having brokered a £155m West End deal last month, veteran agent Harvey Soning is upbeat in his market forecast
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InsightTime to cut the RDAs out of property
There was a big disagreement over Sunday lunch in the Barrie household a few weeks back
