All articles by Kristina Smith – Page 2

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    Foreign offices

    18 May 2001

    The British Council for Offices annual conference takes place in Berlin at the end of the month. Property Week talks to the conference's keynote speakers about their visions of European property in the future

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    Tightening the belt

    4 May 2001

    Many commentators are forecasting that the slowdown in the US economy will soon be felt in the UK. We quiz the heads of top surveying firms about how they plan to face the possible downturn

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    A heated debate

    20 April 2001

    Property Week picked key marginal Northampton South for a pre-election 'focus group' with two candidates and readers. We gauge the political mood in an average UK town

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    Business class

    12 April 2001

    Accountants and banks are stealing work from surveyors. Now even the RICS has realised that surveyors need to acquire some business sense

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    Growing pains

    6 April 2001

    Cambridgeshire has one of the fastest growing populations in the UK. Is the answer to create new and complete settlements?

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    Safe as houses?

    30 March 2001

    The demand for telehouses has dropped away, with the downturn in the technology and telecoms sectors. We take a look at what the future holds for co-location developers

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    Rent ploys

    23 March 2001

    This year will see battles across the industry as landlords seek huge uplifts on leases that were last reviewed in 1996. Kristina Smith reports from the rent review frontline

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    King of Castlemore

    23 March 2001

    Castlemore's planning director Patrick Power is in a good position to help guide its schemes through the planning process he used to work in local government.

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    Glasgow gambles

    Scotland Supplement 16 March 2001

    Glasgow council has big plans for regenerating the city, working with landowners and developers, but will the proactive tone of the new city plan, released this month, really work?

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    Ocean's colours seen

    Scotland Supplement 16 March 2001

    Forth Ports has a vision to regenerate Leith, a rundown corner of Scotland. Its seaside shopping centre, Ocean Terminal, is due to open in October but it hasn't been plain sailing

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    Are you undersold?

    9 March 2001

    The RICS/Macdonald & Company salary survey 2001 results are now revealed. Overall, it is a fairly gloomy picture, but there are some winners...

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    The care taker

    9 March 2001

    After getting his fingers burned going south in the early 1990s, Scott Cairns is sticking to Scotland and the north with his new joint venture. We talk to the former Scottish Metropolitan MD

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    Deutsche auction

    ICRE March 2001

    Telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom is looking to its property to find funds for its expansion in mobile and network technology. Property Week meets the man who is masterminding the selling and sweating of its real estate assets

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    Social security

    16 February 2001

    Institutional investors have found a new way to differentiate between quoted companies. Kristina Smith predicts the rise of the caring, sharing property company

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    At Liberty

    9 February 2001

    MWB's strategy of diversification has been well received by the City. But can a property company really reverse the fortunes of an ailing department store? We talk to Richard Balfour-Lynn and newly appointed Liberty chief executive Fiona Harrison

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    The trendspotter

    2 February 2001

    If all goes to plan, this month Berkeley will begin opening its most ambitious mixed-use scheme to date: Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. The group MD tells Property Week why regeneration is his latest thing

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    Tenants' motto: be prepared

    Prop Direct Jan 01

    Recent floods could lead insurance companies to alter policies. Tenants should check their cover.

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    Lines of speculation

    19 January 2001

    Highbridge Properties developed its first call centre in the early 1990s, but has stepped up the pace in the past three years with a string of speculative schemes. We speak to managing director Guy Marsden about the developer's specialist calling

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    The battle of MEPC

    19 January 2001

    Hermes and GE Capital's bid to take MEPC private has left a bad taste in some small shareholders' mouths. They still accuse the company of underselling and setting up profitable management bonus schemes. We talk to the top men who defend the sale and are hitting back at what they ...

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    New name, new game

    8 December 2000

    Caradon's imminent name change reflects the group's shift in businesses. But what is the impact on its property portfolio?