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CBRE hit as chief quits to start on new venture

09.10.09
The head of City investment at CB Richard Ellis has quit to set up a new venture in a major blow to the property firm... more

Crown Estate loses £1bn after rent and property slump

08.07.09
Crown Estate has seen more than £1billion wiped off the value of its assets after the slump in the property market - the first drop since 1993... more

Mammoth project that may turn into a white elephant

03.07.09
Mark Morris and Maurice Golker have a very big decision to make in the coming weeks. This virtually unknown pair of property investors control a major site in the City. They are on the verge of submitting plans for a huge office block on the 2.8 acres of land in EC3. But is building a huge office block a terribly bright idea right now?... more

UBS may scale down London offices after axing hundreds

19.06.09
UBS, which has axed hundreds of jobs in its London investment banking hub at Broadgate, is considering reducing the office space it leases there... more

Place your bets in bookies’ bonanza

04.06.09
Bookmakers, always keen to attract the punters, are hyping this weekend as a £400 million betting bonanza — with the Derby at Epsom, England against Kazakhstan football, the Lions Tour, the Turkish Grand Prix, Twenty20 World Cup Cricket and the opening weekend of Big Brother ... more

Office building revival 'will not start until 2013'

03.06.09
Developers will not start building any new offices until 2013 although they should really start as early as 2011, a report says... more

Vauxhall and Battersea are in the pink

11.05.09
Taking London's Pulse: Vauxhall was once a pleasure-seeker's paradise. In the past decade, the area best known as a transport thoroughfare again became a pull for the party people. Meanwhile, neighbour Battersea attracted the yuppie overspill from across the Thames... more

Wake for the last of the big spenders

06.05.09
There was a sombre mood at this year’s Arabian Travel Market, the annual industry get-together in Dubai. All the talk was of falling revenues, cutting costs and swine flu ... more

Victoria hopes to click again as new media hub

27.04.09
Pimlico has had a poor press. Some may still see it as a Belgravia wannabe, but the area has come a long way since GK Chesterton decried its poverty-struck streets as a "desperate thing"... more

Office developers won't be railroaded into a £200m bill

17.04.09
Developers no longer find Boris amusing. This is because the Mayor of London is dunning them for £200 million to pay for about a mile of Crossrail.... more

Crunch takes fizz out of property jamboree

03.03.09
The once-mighty Mipim international property trade fair in Cannes next week will see nearly 10,000 fewer people attending than last year as the economic crisis keeps delegates from London and around the world at home... more

Property firms pass the begging bowl

13.02.09
Property: Pleas from Hammerson and British Land for more than £1.3 billion from shareholders this week are expected to open the floodgates for a host of similar moves as property firms cope with tumbling prices... more

Ritblat firm wields the jobs axe as crisis bites

16.01.09
Property: Commercial property consultant Colliers CRE announced 70 job cuts in London as it battles the worst crisis in the market for decades... more

Investors edging back to auctions as the tide turns

09.01.09
On 17 December at the Cumberland Hotel near Marble Arch, auctioneer Gary Murphy of Allsop brought down the hammer on Brookside Close, selling the 13 houses that made up the set of the defunct Channel 4 soap opera for £735,000... more

London house prices 'to fall further but recover faster'

08.12.08
Property: House prices in London will fall further than anywhere else next year - but then recover sooner and faster than the rest of the UK... more

Surveyors axed in blitz on costs

05.11.08
Chartered surveyors in London braced for further bloodshed as a fresh wave of redundancies rock the property industry... more

How Hester avoided the pitfalls at British Land

24.10.08
So what will Stephen Hester will do at RBS? Those seeking clues will naturally take an interest in how the former head of Abbey house-cleaned this rather dusty property company during three years of boom and one year of bust... more

Property falls hit consultants

30.07.08
The world's two largest property consultants have reported a massive collapse in profits as property values continue to drop... more

This fraud story will be challenge for SFO chief

18.07.08
The unfinished tale of a multi-million-pound commercial property fraud highlights how tough it will be for newly appointed SFO director Richard Alderman to make the agency fast and effective... more

Fears grow for property jobs as 50 axed at DTZ

18.06.08
Worries that a number of rivals including Jones Lang LaSalle and CB Richard Ellis will follow suit... more

Only one firework night at Kenwood ... due to bats

22.05.08
The traditional fireworks show at the Kenwood House concerts will be restricted to one night this summer - to safeguard colonies of bats... more

Candys must grit their teeth for a sweet £1bn

25.04.08
This is the tale of two youngish men who may make £1bn for their backers and a slice for themselves by building and selling only 319 homes... more

Credit crunch causes dive in office demand

07.04.08
Office lettings in the City and Canary Wharf have plummeted in the last six months ... more

Playing for high stakes but holding all the aces

04.04.08
Achilleas Kallakis is on his way to becoming one of London's most significant property developers, says Peter Bill.... more

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