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Among the property executives to have left senior positions at major quoted firms to set up their own ventures is Mike Hussey, former boss of Land Securities' £5bn London division, who is looking to raise hundreds of millions of pounds to buy property that has fallen over 50% since its peak in July 2007.
The housing minister at the time, Kris Hopkins, sat with two of London's top property executives, Bruce Ritchie, a business partner of the chef Marco Pierre White, and Paul Munford, an adviser to the Candy brothers, luxury property developers whose firms arrange purchases of "trophy" London homes for rich foreigners.
Johnson Property executives insist that the sale was not prompted by the suits or a need for refinancing, but is simply part of the company's history of forming joint ventures.
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The future of Crest Nicholson, which is owned jointly by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter, is equally uncertain now that Peter Cummings, the HBOS property executive who waived through the £750m deal, will leave the bank in the new year.
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A McDonald's U.S. property executive brushed off the billionaire.
"It's certainly not cricket," harrumphs one well-connected British property executive.
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