All articles by Giles Barrie – Page 9
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Midweek Bulletin: Simon/CSC saga nears crunch time and the sales before Christmas
In this week’s Midweek Bulletin hear Property Week’s editor-in-chief Giles Barrie and executive editor James Whitmore discuss the first hot news of 2011.
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BlogsBarrie's Big Winners of 2010
Readers may have choked on their breakfast this morning as they read the Daily Telegraph front page headline `Brace yourself for a 5% interest rate’. I will therefore try to cheer you up with my awards for the year.
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BlogsMy verdict on Simon's Capital Shopping Centres bid
What should Capital Shopping Centres’ directors do as they head off for their meeting to consider US group Simon’s £2.9bn indicative bid this afternoon? Read on to find out.
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InsightTime to widen property’s ‘gene pool’
Tuition fees will dominate headlines after Thursday’s vote on the coalition’s proposed steep rise. What does this educational upheaval mean for property?
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BlogsWho's who of London property congratulates City planning chief
Any lunatic wanting to wipe out the London property market could have done so by blowing up the City’s Goldsmiths Hall on Friday.
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InsightProperty is hot because everything else is cold
Bids are due in today for £900m of property being sold by St Martins Property Corporation
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BlogsThe day Donald Trump phoned my wife...
It was May 2003 and Mrs Barrie took the call in our kitchen. `Is that the Barrie household? I have Mister Donald Trump for you’.
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OnlineRonson slams `backdoor development tax’
Heron International chief Gerald Ronson today fired a shot across the bows of planners at the Westminster Property Association’s annual lunch.
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InsightLost in London
Giles Barrie learns about the capital’s rustic underbelly in this homegrown magazine
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InsightFee cutting is no way to emerge from recession
The fee cutting that was prevalent as property last emerged from recession is back in a big way and valuation is the most brutal battlefield of all
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BlogsWool-ass should be feeling sheepish, says Barrie
I was delighted to see former Labour minister Phil Woolas found guilty of misleading the electorate last week – having got into hot water for calling him Phil `Wool-ass’ in May 2007. Why was I so rude? Because Woolas was the Treasury ‘lackey’ who had just scrapped empty rates ...
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BlogsBBC boils Barrie's blood
Property Week has a strong history of investigative journalism – in recent years we have delved deep into the worlds of Ian McGarry, Achilleas Kallakis and `Lord’ Eddie Davenport to name but a few. I also applaud the Sunday Times’s investigation into alleged corruption among the Fifa officials ...
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InsightTime to take a knife to secondary values
What is secondary property currently worth? It is the biggest question swirling around property right now because, in truth, nobody knows
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BlogsShame on you if you avoid tax, says Chief Rabbi
Shame on you if you avoid tax – this was the message from the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks at an intriguing dinner I went to on Tuesday night.
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InsightProud Naghshineh shows how not to deal with banks
Targetfollow collapsed into administration this week and the recriminations are sure to be bitter in the months to come
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BlogsBarrie blogs on Targetfollow’s chances
So Targetfollow lives to fight another day – but its potential saviour isn’t Patron Capital, the American group that was the subject of speculation last week.
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InsightProperty can power nation out of parlous state
Half a million jobs lost, £83bn in spending cuts, the social housing budget decimated and quangos axed across the UK
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BlogsBarrie blogs on football and beer
I am spending the afternoon repaying a bet, watching football and going to the pub. But it is all in a good cause, as I will explain. First I need to take Savills' Tracy Collins out for lunch after I bet him last year that my ...
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InsightPublic property revolution will be long, hard haul
Next week’s Comprehensive Spending Review will be the biggest property event of the year
