All articles by Jenny Davey

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    City view: 05 June 2009

    05 June 2009

    Shares in the big quoted property companies have been savaged by the downturn, and rightly so

  • Jenny Davey, City editor of the Sunday Times
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    City view: Jenny Davey

    01 May 2009

    The Sunday Times Rich List was greeted with more anticipation than usual last weekend

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    City view: Jenny Davey 06.02.2009

    06 February 2009

    Brascan, the Canadian property and power company, shot to fame on the UK commercial property scene back in the doldrums of 2004, when it engaged in a bidding war with a consortium led by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds for Canary Wharf.

  • Cash
    Online

    Your horrorscope for 2009

    09 January 2009

    Property Week’s City View columnists, Mike Prew of Nomura and Jenny Davey of the Sunday Times, give their predictions and tips for the year ahead

  • Corporate casualty? Lloyds TSB is likely to lose Bank of Scotland’s Cummings
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    In defence of Peter Cummings

    14 November 2008

    The Bank of Scotland Corporate chief executive was one of property’s biggest advocates

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    City View: Jenny Davey - Time to say good morning to Vietnam

    09 May 2008

    China’s southern neighbour has put its economic and political troubles behind it as it prepares for a property boom.

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    Snap Decision

    Finance Supplement April 2008

    Land Securities’ demerger plans continue to generate debate.

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    City View: Jenny Davey

    11 April 2008

    Rent quarter day has come and gone, and, despite widespread forecasts of catastrophe, so far the bloodbath has been limited to just a couple of specks on the carpet.

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    City View: Jenny Davey

    14 March 2008

    Trying to second guess the market is a tough ask right now.

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    City View: Jenny Davey - The rise and fall of Capital & Regional

    08 February 2008

    Share price collapses, potential covenant breaches and boardroom bust-ups are plaguing the retail specialist, says Jenny Davey

  • News

    City View: Jenny Davey

    07 December 2007

    The crash fantasists are back with a vengeance, so as we head into the festive season it is perhaps worth reminding ourselves of 10 reasons why the downturn in the property market is nothing like the early 1990s crash.

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    City view: Jenny Davey

    09 November 2007

    The big hitters of the shopping centre industry lined up this week to sell their wares at the BCSC conference in Gateshead.

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    City View: Jenny Davey

    19 October 2007

    Private punters are still piling into the commercial property market, if the crowd at Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest auction was anything to go by.

  • News

    Crisis at Christmas

    28 September 2007

    As consumers tighten their belts, the quoted retail sector can look forward to a subdued Christmas trading period.

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    City view: Jenny Davey

    07 September 2007

    UK REITS have been a failure. That is the conclusion of many quarters of the property industry.

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    City view: Jenny Davey: Rumours of a crash are greatly exaggerated

    10 August 2007

    Don’t believe the doom-mongers property remains a safe bet in troubled times, says Sunday Times deputy City editor Jenny Davey

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    City View: Jenny Davey

    6 July 2007

    Remember those moments in TV westerns when the cavalry officer crawls forward to the sergeant at the listening post?

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    City view: Jenny Davey

    8 June 2007

    All that glitters is not gold, but in the case of investors who bought shops in Bond Street during the last five years, the returns have been even better than buying the precious metal.

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    City view: Jenny Davey

    11 May 2007

    It is not quite a Damascene conversion, but nine years after first starting to write about property, I have become a fan of Slough Estates or Segro as it now likes to call itself.

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    City view: Jenny Davey

    05 April 2007

    Centre Point has always enjoyed a special place in property history. Now the whispers are that owner Targetfollow is poised to put the grade I-listed building into a £600m joint venture with HBOS.