All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 3
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Insight"London has delivered on all its Olympic Games bid promises"
This is it. The biggest property event of our careers is just two weeks away.
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InsightBarclays debacle may yet come back to bite us
Scandal at Barclays has dominated the headlines this week, so what are the implications for property?
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OnlineMidweek Bulletin: The Shard
Editor-in-Chief Giles Barrie and Executive Editor James Whitmore discuss Europe’s tallest building
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OnlineVideo: 40,000 flock to Docklands 'Meanwhile' project
London Pleasure Gardens, a new events venue in London’s Royal Docks created as a result of a Property Week competition, was visited by 40,000 people for its opening last weekend.
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InsightBusiness rates are property’s crippling stealth tax
“When you talk about pressure on the high street, the issue is not rent now, it’s rates,” says Mark Bourgeois, managing director of shopping centres at Capital & Regional (analysis).
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InsightCompulsory resolution to Croydon face-off
Embarrassment continues to spread in the property industry over the antics of the freeholder and leaseholder of Croydon’s Whitgift Centre — the big shopping destination in the 1970s for anyone growing up in the south-east.
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OnlineBCO 2012: Parris says London 'too successful'
Times columnist and former MP Matthew Parris set the cat among the pigeons at Manchester’s British Council for Offices conference today by saying London is ‘too successful’.
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InsightDebt-bound banks: better to give than to receive
Property Week was among the loudest voices speaking out against soaring bank lending to real estate in the mid-2000s.
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OnlineMidweek Bulletin: LandSecs outperforms market expectations
Land Securities, the UK’s largest property company, today revealed positive annual results despite the gloomy economic outlook.
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InsightCrisis on cards for landlords as Clinton caves
“Clinton Cards was renowned in the 1980s and the late 1990s for making the market. You could rely on Clinton to break the record rent and attempt to obliterate the opposition in towns where there was surplus supply.
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GVA quashes doubt with debt deal
GVA this week announced a debt-for-equity swap with loan note holder Lloyds Development Capital which will see the investor own 30% of the agency by 2014.
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OnlineGVA quashes doubt with debt deal
GVA this week announced a debt-for-equity swap with loan note holder Lloyds Development Capital which will see the investor own 30% of the agency by 2014.
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OnlineClimbdown on Lord's development ban
Marylebone Cricket Club this afternoon withdrew a controversial motion to ban residential development at the home of cricket.
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OnlineMidweek Bulletin: "Developers should consider resi for business parks"
Developers should consider knocking down vacant or underperforming business park buildings and developing residential instead, members of the property industry heard at the Knight Frank M25 research breakfast this morning.
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InsightWomen are integral to UK property's future success
Why create a Women’s Power List? First, to compare with our Property’s Top 100 Women that we published in 2006.
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OnlineUK market shrinks says DTZ
DTZ’s influential Money into Property report today revealed that the UK property investment market shrank by 1% in 2011, and predicted further pain to come from bank deleveraging.
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OnlineUK investment markets shrinks, "Money into Property " says
DTZ’s influential Money into Property report today revealed that the UK property investment market shrank by 1% in 2011, and predicted further pain to come from bank deleveraging.
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InsightTech boom lights up flat first quarter for property
Quarter one 2012 is over. How has UK property fared?
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InsightPrepack predictions for LSH are premature
Lambert Smith Hampton was the name on everyone’s lips this week when the question: “Which agency will be next to attempt a prepack administration?” was raised.
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InsightColliers prepack ensures mid-table security
First DTZ, now Colliers International. One by one agency’s quoted names are collapsing into insolvency — the victims of debts incurred during ill-advised expansion in the boom (finance).
