Kate Lowe
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Ernst & Young targets management market
Ernst & Young, whose 130-strong real estate group mainly offers consulting-style services, is eyeing up the management of corporate property portfolios.
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Brownian notions
Under chairman Bruce Brown, Lambert Smith Hampton has become the UK’s second-largest surveying firm. But further expansion will take the company beyond surveying.
- Professional
Take your partners...
Property outsourcing along the lines of the Government’s Private Finance Initiative is now firmly on the agenda for the UK’s leading firms. But when is the first deal going to take place?
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Small firms
Big is beautiful, but niche is nicer. Globalisation may be in vogue, yet most surveyors work alone or in small firms. Today Property Week launches a new section aimed at the UK’s 15,000 small surveying practices. Each week we will explore issues that particularly affect small firms. Kate Lowe and ...
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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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Refined partners
Amid a frenzy of mergers in a poorly performing oil industry, BP and Amoco joined forces on New Year's Eve to form the largest company based in the UK. We spoke to Richard Paver and examine just how the new oil giant will consolidate its considerable property holdings
