Focus on Big Bang

Focus on Big Bang - 1986 - Estates Gazette 280 (6307) 27/10/86 483-514 (19) .

A feature looking at the effect of the Big Bang on the property world. Attempts to analyse the extent to which the Big Bang has affected office development in London and also considers future trends. Looks back to the deregulation of the stock exchange in the United States which took place ten years ago and reports on how chartered surveyors are responding to the financial services revolution. Considers the effect that the increasing need for dealing floors is having on office design and discusses the concept of unitisation . Comments on fears that following the Big Bang the smaller property companies will be neglected. Examines the gradual diversification of the major stockbrokers into property and describes the merger between merchant bankers Morgan Grenfell and chartered surveyors Michael Laurie and Partners .