All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 4
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Midweek Bulletin: Inside the Colliers UK pre-pack
Property Week ’s Giles Barrie and James Whitmore discuss the pre-pack sale of Colliers International UK at 3.30am today, what it means for the business and the morality of opting for the administration route.
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Myners slates Bank of England and regulation
Lord Myners today called for a radical overhaul of the way the Bank of England operates and said that increased regulation of the financial services industry risked driving banks like HSBC and Standard Chartered out of the UK.
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Property’s head should rule its heart at Heathrow
Heathrow third runway or Thames Estuary airport?
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ECOBUILD: Cost of carbon zero is too high, says Barratt chief
Building sustainable homes is still too expensive, Mark Clare, chief executive of Barratt Homes, has said at the EcoBuild conference.
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ECOBUILD: Property needs to "up the pace" to hit carbon targets says Salway
Different levels of business rates should be introduced to encourage the property industry to hit ambitious carbon reduction targets, outgoing Land Securities chief executive Francis Salway has said.
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Cushman's Euro chief Bacon to leave
Cushman Wakefield this evening announced changes to its global top team, with European chief Paul Bacon due to step down on July 1.
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BUDGET BULLETIN: The impact on property explained
Join Property Week’s Giles Barrie and Patrick Gower as they explore the key points affecting the property sector from today’s Budget announcement.
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BUDGET 2012: Candy - 'Banker-bashing replaced by property-bashing'
Candy Candy co-founder Nick Candy today slated chancellor George Osborne’s sharp increases in stamp duty on homes worth more than £2m in today’s Budget.
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MIPIM 2012: Cushman EMEA chief Bacon on fees, financing and Flower
Cushman Wakefield’s EMEA chief executive Paul Bacon joined Property Week ’s Giles Barrie this morning on the beach in Cannes to wrap up this year’s MIPIM conference.
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MIPIM Blog: Why Strutt & Parker won’t be sold
I challenged Strutt Parker senior partner Andy Martin yesterday over whether the £80m a year outfit would be sold – and he gave me six reasons why it won’t.
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Home and away: British buzz and MIPIM murmurs
Chilly Cannes played host to 19,000 property people this week. The UK contingent was marginally up, but public sector attendance was markedly down on previous years.While obscure overseas regions trumpeted their success, it was down to big cities such as London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh — and not the smaller ...
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MIPIM 2012: Birmingham leader warns "Londoners trapped in a time-warp"
Councillor Mike Whitby has criticsed the nay-sayers in London who think there is no life in the regions, saying his city is grabbing international interest as a top city to visit.
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MIPIM 2012: London not in danger of "housing bubble" says Cowell
London should not fear a housing bubble as in-flows of international money are not likely to dry up, Nicholas Cowell, managing partner of the Cowell Group of Companies, said last night.
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MIPIM 2012: Finance expert joins KPMG
Stephen Barter, one of property’s best known financiers, has joined Big Four accountant KPMG.
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MIPIM BLOG: My most memorable MIPIMs
Here are my five most memorable MIPIMs. This is my 20th - having started in 1992 and missed only one year when a new dad - so it will be fascinating to make comparisons with the past.
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Leader: “There has been bitchiness about Irvine Sellar’s Shard in London”
With Property Week readers following news from MIPIM on iPhone, iPad and laptops over the next week, today we revert to a magazine, rather than newspaper style, for our first international special of 2012.
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Mayor must up his game after shambolic debate
“Unprofessional, poorly managed, poorly constructed and rude” is how one industry grandee described mayor of London Boris Johnson’s performance at LandAid’s London versus New York “Battle of the Giants” debate.
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Strong year for BNP Paribas Real Estate
BNP Paribas Real Estate - the development to transactional agency arm of the giant French bank – lifted operating profit by 11% to €156m in 2011.
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Midweek Bulletin: Why is Westfield selling out of smaller schemes?
Following the news revealed by Property Week last night that Westfield has sold out of three regional shopping centres, the Midweek Bulletin looks at what this means for Westfield’s strategy.