All articles by Ian Cundell
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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.
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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
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News
Chase real estate guru quits in strategy ruckus
Cesar Chekijian, Chase Manhattan s corporate real estate boss, has left after a disagreement over the banking giant s global property strategy. 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 ...
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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
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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.
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Markets
A leisurely road to success
I ve got a 40-minute drive to work with the radio on, compared to 50 minutes with my face in somebody s armpit. It s not a difficult choice is it? Not my words or anybody s in this survey, but those (more or less) of a former ...
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Markets
Wanted: support for a bold vision
Longer ago than I care to remember, I took driving lessons on Beddington Farm Road, off Purley Way, in Croydon. I presume there was a farm there once, but for a long time, my main image of the area was the looming chimneys of what I assumed was a redundant ...
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Markets
A lesson in practical planning
In the wake of the opening of Britain's last regional shopping centre Kent's Bluewater it's curious to see that one of the earlier ones still has the capacity to make waves. There is a right old hoo-hah going on in Dudley over proposals to designate Merry ...
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Markets
Mersey blues? Don’t believe a word
I would be willing to bet that the only reason most southerners visit Liverpool is because of football. And yes, I am guilty: if West Ham had not been visiting Anfield, I probably would not have made my recent trip. This would have been a shame, since you only need ...
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Insight
Surveying firms' fee earners the 1999 listing
Merger mania makes its mark in the second Property Week UK Fee Earners Survey.
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Markets
Urbs in rure: the Berkshire set-up
Ask property people what Berkshire means to them and they will wax lyrical about high technology, pharmaceuticals and other industries at the leading edge of innovation. Ask the man on the Clapham omnibus, and there is a good chance he will talk more of rolling acres and hunting, shooting and ...
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Markets
Leading from the front in Leeds
Over the years, the British have become so used to associating the word 'shortage' with bad things rationing, oil crises and the like that it is a little peculiar to see it as a sign of rude health. Yet in Yorkshire at the commercial ...
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Markets
Leagues apart in regeneration game
Often you can tell a lot about a region by its football teams. Lancashire has Blackburn Rovers, a solid performer, well-backed with substantial local money, but always a bit unfashionable. Rarely a first choice, big-name outsiders need pretty good incentives to be enticed there. Cumbria has Carlisle United ...
