Parker brings some unique insights to his new post. He has been involved in real estate for the past 22 years, starting in the trenches as a broker (surveyor) for what was then Jones Lang Wootton. In 1983, he became a property journalist with Chartered Surveyor Weekly. Since then, he has contributed articles to Financial Times, the Daily Mail and Estates Gazette in addition to serving as editor of EuroProperty, a pan-European commercial property newsletter. Veteran reporter Steve Killick will be working hand-in-hand with Parker to ensure the delivery of the hottest news to the site. To access GlobeSt.com's new London page, click on:LONDON

While the website enters Europe for the first time, GlobeSt.com has also been beefing up its stable of professional columnists. With yesterday's addition of F. Patricia Callahan, the website boasts three industry veterans contributing their viewpoints. Callahan, president of the Washington, DC-based American Association of Small Property Owners, analyzes the Bush tax plan in her Washington Insider column (Click on: Washington Insider). She joins Vik Bangia of CB Richard Ellis, who pens the monthly Corporate Real Estate Strategies piece (Click on: Corporate Real Estate Strategies). She also joins Matt Slepin and Chris Lee, who share authorship duties on the monthly Personnel File. (Click on: Personnel File).

All of GlobeSt.com's columnists can also be accessed by clicking on the ViewPoints button on any city page.