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...Robin Zeng, chair of CATL, the world’s largest electric vehicle battery maker, remained in third place after his fortune fell by 43 per cent to $28.9bn....
...“They’ve become a real player in the market,” says Alam Pirani, executive managing director of Colliers Hotels, which advises hospitality investors. “I think they are going to be aggressive.”...
...Sloane, who was introduced to the Le Monde Beryl duo by fellow art dealer and furniture savant Robin Katz, initially sourced design pieces for the brand’s by-appointment studio and showroom in Belgravia....
...Indeed, Mr Collier regrets doing two financing rounds in early 2013, just before Reorg took off....
...“You are absolutely going to see litigation among bondholders,” says Kent Collier, the head of Reorg Research, a distressed debt intelligence outfit. “This could take many many years to play out....
...“There’s consented planning for 85,000 sq m, 915,000 sq ft of retail, and that’s really why Hammerson didn’t want anyone spoiling their party at the Bullring,” says David Smeeton, director with Colliers...
...According to Colliers International, a commercial property adviser, Bond Street rents have reached £838 per sq ft — more than double the price for space on Geneva’s prestigious Rue du Rhône and the most...
...Colliers International’s house price index for Dubai fell 4 per cent quarter-on- quarter between April and June this year, the first contraction in 12 months....
...“I don’t think Abu Dhabi expected to be hit as hard as it was,” says Ian Albert, regional director of Colliers International, the consultancy....
...Additional reporting by Robin Wigglesworth and Anousha Sakoui...
...Housing prices rose 7 per cent in the third quarter, according to property consultancy Colliers International, the first increase since the market crashed last year....
...Residential property prices have dropped about 20 per cent in Riyadh, the capital, and 15 per cent in the commercial centre of Jeddah, while rental prices have dipped about 5 per cent according to Colliers...
...Collier International’s house price index of off-plan residential property fell 41 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, and prices are now back to the levels of mid-2007....
...John Collier’s portrait of Darwin in old age is one of the first pictures you see on entering Endless Forms, an image of a sage but diffident and lovable old man....
...launched in the second quarter of last year have on average declined 20 per cent, while office rents dropped 24 per cent between the third quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year, according to Colliers...
...According to a Colliers International report released this week, house prices in Dubai dropped 8 per cent in the fourth quarter. Many analysts expect to see steeper declines in 2009....
...While rent declines may accelerate due to Dubai’s expected population fall, property prices are likely to drop faster and further, improving yields, says Ian Albert, regional director of Colliers International...
...After six years of spiralling property prices and increasingly ambitious real estate projects – including the world’s tallest tower, biggest shopping mall and largest artificial island – a Colliers report...
...A more bearish Robin Knight, a director at corporate restructuring specialists Kroll, points to the highly competitive mid-range clothing market....
...This is indeed the case, says Robin Geffen, manager of the Neptune Russia and Greater Russia fund. He says credit is still in its infancy in Russia....
...Collier Hill provides the fairy-tale element in Dubai....
...Robin Linn, a real estate agent on the island, says 95 per cent of the rental property owners she represents are planning to rebuild and that buying interest, while slower since Katrina, has not collapsed...
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