All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 19
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Kallakis at heart of fraud allegation
Officers from the Serious Fraud Squad are investigating an alleged fraud relating to companies led by entrepreneur and gambler Achilleas Kallakis.
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Private equity should bail out Brixton
Brixton’s post-Tim Wheeler era began on Monday with a £768m loss caused by writedowns, and shares sticking around 15p as deep concerns continued over its debt
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Councils walk tall in recession-worn Cannes
The sombre mood at mipim this week reflected the fact that numbers were more than 10,000 down on last year’s peak
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Our census spotlights public sector fat cats
Claims and dispute resolution is the only branch of the surveying profession in which more people expect a pay rise than a cut in 2009
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Pray for third bank bailout to work
Where better to write this week’s column than from Edinburgh, home of the disastrous Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS?
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Abolish Stamp Duty to help rescue banks...
Throwing cash at banks has so far only prevented them going bust and made them extremely unpopular with the tax-paying public
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The shape of REITs to come
Happy faces, hope and a brave new world: that was the flavour of the party at the London Stock Exchange in January 2007 for the official launch of UK REITs
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10 reasons to be cheerful
Britain is on strike, it’s snowing and Investment Property Databank figures released on Monday show that UK property values plunged by 14.4% in the last quarter of 2008.
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Boris must feel developers' pain
Mayor for London Boris Johnson was on good form at last week’s Movers and Shakers property breakfast at the Dorchester hotel, co-hosted by the British Property Federation and chaired by Property Week. His speech was a rabble-rousing mixture of jokes, pro-London defiance and serious thoughts on the Olympics, ...
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Fortunes will be lost and made in 2009
After the Wall Street Crash there was a series of false dawns, quiet periods – and then more drama.
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Valuation need not be an ‘impossible job’
‘Do I not like that,’ said Graham Taylor in An Impossible Job, the programme about his unfortunate reign as England football manager.
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Professional
Will ethics in property disappear as the recession tightens?
Gerald Ronson, Nick Leslau and Lord Myners discussed whether ethics will disappear in the crunch at a pre-Christmas debate. Illustration by Peter Till
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Seven deadly lessons from 2008
What lessons can property learn from its harshest year since 1992?
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Agents must tread with care in insolvent world
Acronyms are everywhere. IPs, LPAs, CVAs, ABLs, PGs and MIPs are dominating conversation.
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Judgement day: Bank of Scotland/Property Week £30m Search for Property Entrepreneurs
Investor Nick Leslau, developer Sir Stuart Lipton, Bank of Scotland Corporate chief Peter Cummings and newsreader Katie Derham were just four participants in a dramatic day in London last Thursday.
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Fund managers’ star falls to earth
Has there ever been a tougher time to be a property fund manager?
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Rates of decline just got a whole lot worse
Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report is a savage kick in the teeth for all businesses.
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Rights issues are right on money
Twenty per cent-plus falls in Land Securities’ and British Land’s net asset value in the six months to 30 September come as no surprise.
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Liverpool’s lament for retail property
The mood was bleak at retail property’s annual bonanza in Liverpool this week.