Ian Cundell
- Online
Abu Dhabi backtracks to bail out Dubai World
Abu Dhabi has reversed its stance on Dubai debt and provided $10bn to help state-owned holding company Dubai World meet its obligations, including $4.1bn needed to repay an Islamic bond maturing today for the property company Nakheel.
- Insight
Ten years on
As 1999 ends, we ask how today’s market differs from that of 1989, when the industry last prospered. First, this report looks at the role of research. Then, we hear key players’ memories of the crash few foresaw
- News
Chase real estate guru quits in strategy ruckus
A pioneering figure in the world of corporate real estate for 25 years, Chekijian ended his 17-year relationship with the US’s second-largest bank after it introduced the first in a series of property outsourcing measures.
- Markets
A night on the Midtown
Midtown in the mid-1990s was a desolate place. Now it is a 24-hour community with an impressive list of occupiers. This report charts the transformation and what the area has to offer
- Insight
The revolution within
In his first interview since taking on the role of group development director at Grosvenor Estate Holdings, Stephen Musgrave spells out his development philosophy to us.
- Markets
A leisurely road to success
Various surveys in Property Week have touched on quality of life and Manchester seems to have that indefinable something. I must confess that I can’t quite pin it down myself. Whenever I’ve been there, it has struck me as a fairly pleasant place on a reasonably human scale. But, then, ...
- Markets
Wanted: support for a bold vision
It came as a bit of a surprise, a couple of years later, to take a drive to the area and find the chimneys emblazoned with the blue paint of Ikea, and the whole of Purley Way transformed into a retail-warehouse centre.
- Markets
A lesson in practical planning
Call me radical, but I think it's a fine idea. Much as opponents of out-of-town development might not like the fact, Merry Hill is there and cannot be uninvented. The question therefore becomes: how do we live with it? It seems to me that the alternative – freezing Merry Hill ...
- Insight
Surveying firms' fee earners the 1999 listing
Merger mania makes its mark in the second Property Week UK Fee Earners Survey.
- Markets
Mersey blues? Don’t believe a word
This would have been a shame, since you only need to wander around for a little while to get an insight into what the city has to offer and what, I suspect, is its biggest problem.
- Markets
Urbs in rure: the Berkshire set-up
Ask the man on the Clapham omnibus, and there is a good chance he will talk more of rolling acres and hunting, shooting and fishing. Berkshire’s great contradiction is that it is both one of the great centres of modern industry and overwhelmingly rural in character (take a train out ...
- Markets
Leading from the front in Leeds
Yet in Yorkshire – at the commercial heart in Leeds or in other centres from York to Hull – shortage of stock is a recurring theme. Whether in Leeds, off the back of a string of large deals, or in York and Sheffield, through the process of recovery, or in ...
- Markets
Leagues apart in regeneration game
Perhaps the comparison's a bit simplistic, but it's undoubtedly true that when the new North-west Regional Development Agency comes into being, it will inherit an area of wide contrasts and diverse needs. The depressed towns of the Cumbrian coast have as little in common with leafy Cheshire as the West ...
