William Pears Group - Revision history

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 *James Quinn [https://archive.ph/rgB9J Pears family comes out of the property shadows] ''The Telegraph'', 7:00AM BST 12 Jun 2011
 *https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2022/03/04/william-pears-picks-up-62-condos-for-25m/
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 *https://web.archive.org/web/20220812052506/https://cfpt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CFPT-Newsletter-Summer-2003.pdf
 *James Quinn [https://archive.ph/rgB9J Pears family comes out of the property shadows] ''The Telegraph'', 7:00AM BST 12 Jun 2011
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 *[[Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022]]
 *[[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]
 *https://web.archive.org/web/20220812052506/https://cfpt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CFPT-Newsletter-Summer-2003.pdf
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 *[[Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022]]
 *[[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]
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-'''William Pears Group''' is one of Britain's largest [[property companies]], with £6 billion of property in London and south-east England. The Pears family are major sponsors of Zionist activities through [[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]
+'''William Pears Group''' is one of Britain's largest property companies, with £6 billion of property in London and south-east England. The Pears family are major sponsors of Zionist activities through [[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]
 The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by [[Bernard Pears]] (who changed his name from Schleicher on emigrating from Austria) and his son [[Clive Pears]].<ref name=ES>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=David|title=Let's all make it a bumper year for good causes, says man who gave away £30m|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lets-all-make-it-a-bumper-year-for-good-causes-says-man-who-gave-away-30m-7442487.html|access-date=18 February 2015|work=Evening Standard|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is run by [[Mark Pears]] with his younger brothers [[Trevor Pears|Trevor]] and [[David Pears|David]].<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last1=Quinn|first1=James|title=Pears family comes out of the property shadows|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/8569562/Pears-family-comes-out-of-the-property-shadows.html|access-date=3 October 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=12 June 2011}}</ref>
-According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', [[Mark Pears]] is a director of 212 companies, a "complex labyrinth of operating and investment companies", but won't say which is the main holding company or what the group's annual profitis.<ref name=Telegraph />
+According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', [[Mark Pears]] is a director of 212 companies, a "complex labyrinth of operating and investment companies", but won't say which is the main holding company or what the group's annual profit is.<ref name=Telegraph />
 William Pears Group owns 3 – 4,000 London freehold residential properties, including large areas of Notting Hill.<ref name=Telegraph />
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 In April 2013, William Pears Group bought [[The Spires Shopping Centre]] in Barnet, London, from the bank [[UBS]] for a reported £34 million.<ref name=BarnetSociety>{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Nick|title=New owner for the Spires Shopping Centre|url=http://barnetsociety.org.uk/component/k2/new-owner-for-the-spires-shopping-centre|access-date=4 October 2015|work=Barnet Society|date=9 April 2013}}</ref> The Spires has since been bought by the Canadian investment fund [[Alberta Investment Management Corporation|AIMco]].
-Through Pears Global, they have "up to 6,200 apartments" in Berlin, managed through a series of "[[Brass plate company|letterbox companies]]".<ref name="Freedom Press">{{cite news |title=Syndikat: The local pub taking on a corporate giant |url=https://freedomnews.org.uk/syndikat-the-local-pub-taking-on-a-corporate-giant/ |access-date=7 June 2019 |work=Freedom Press |date=14 December 2018}}</ref> In 2019, a collaboration of investigative journalists in Germany, headed by [[Correctiv]], tracked down the ownership of about 25 companies with property in Berlin to six firms in [[Luxembourg]], who belong to two firms on Cyprus, who belong to two firms on the [[British Virgin Islands]], who the journalists concluded to be controlled by the William Pears Group.<ref>{{cite news|title=Das verdeckte Imperium|trans-title=The concealed empire|url=https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/das-verdeckte-imperium/|access-date=2 June 2019|newspaper=[[Der Tagesspiegel]]|date=31 May 2019|language=de}}</ref>
+Through [[Pears Global]], they have "up to 6,200 apartments" in Berlin, managed through a series of "[[Brass plate company|letterbox companies]]".<ref name="Freedom Press">{{cite news |title=Syndikat: The local pub taking on a corporate giant |url=https://freedomnews.org.uk/syndikat-the-local-pub-taking-on-a-corporate-giant/ |access-date=7 June 2019 |work=Freedom Press |date=14 December 2018}}</ref> In 2019, a collaboration of investigative journalists in Germany, headed by [[Correctiv]], tracked down the ownership of about 25 companies with property in Berlin to six firms in [[Luxembourg]], who belong to two firms on Cyprus, who belong to two firms on the [[British Virgin Islands]], who the journalists concluded to be controlled by the William Pears Group.<ref>{{cite news|title=Das verdeckte Imperium|trans-title=The concealed empire|url=https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/das-verdeckte-imperium/|access-date=2 June 2019|newspaper=[[Der Tagesspiegel]]|date=31 May 2019|language=de}}</ref>
 The Pears brothers have invested in New York City as well, through the purchase of $147 million of at least 344 unsold condominium and cooperative units in mostly 1980s-era cooperatives and one rental building, according to PincusCo Media.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-03|title=Billionaire British Pears brothers quietly buy NYC unsold condos, co-ops in bulk|url=https://www.pincusco.com/billionaire-british-pears-brothers-quietly-buy-nyc-unsold-condos-co-ops-in-bulk/|access-date=2020-07-04|website=PincusCo|language=en-US}}</ref> The acquisitions began as early as 2011 and the most recent was in June 2020.

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−	'''William Pears Group''' is one of Britain's largest [[property companies]], with £6 billion of property in London and south-east England. The Pears family are major sponsors of Zionist activities through ~~their~~ [[Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]	+	'''William Pears Group''' is one of Britain's largest [[property companies]], with £6 billion of property in London and south-east England. The Pears family are major sponsors of Zionist activities through [[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]]

	The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by [[Bernard Pears]] (who changed his name from Schleicher on emigrating from Austria) and his son [[Clive Pears]].<ref name=ES>{{cite news\|last1=Cohen\|first1=David\|title=Let's all make it a bumper year for good causes, says man who gave away £30m\|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lets-all-make-it-a-bumper-year-for-good-causes-says-man-who-gave-away-30m-7442487.html\|access-date=18 February 2015\|work=Evening Standard\|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is run by [[Mark Pears]] with his younger brothers [[Trevor Pears\|Trevor]] and [[David Pears\|David]].<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news\|last1=Quinn\|first1=James\|title=Pears family comes out of the property shadows\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/8569562/Pears-family-comes-out-of-the-property-shadows.html\|access-date=3 October 2015\|work=The Daily Telegraph\|date=12 June 2011}}</ref>		The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by [[Bernard Pears]] (who changed his name from Schleicher on emigrating from Austria) and his son [[Clive Pears]].<ref name=ES>{{cite news\|last1=Cohen\|first1=David\|title=Let's all make it a bumper year for good causes, says man who gave away £30m\|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lets-all-make-it-a-bumper-year-for-good-causes-says-man-who-gave-away-30m-7442487.html\|access-date=18 February 2015\|work=Evening Standard\|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is run by [[Mark Pears]] with his younger brothers [[Trevor Pears\|Trevor]] and [[David Pears\|David]].<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news\|last1=Quinn\|first1=James\|title=Pears family comes out of the property shadows\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/8569562/Pears-family-comes-out-of-the-property-shadows.html\|access-date=3 October 2015\|work=The Daily Telegraph\|date=12 June 2011}}</ref>

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 '''William Pears Group''' is one of Britain's largest [[property companies]], with £6 billion of property in London and south-east England.
-The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by [[Bernard Pears]] (who changed his name from Schleicher on emigrating from Austria) and his son Clive Pears.<ref name=ES>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=David|title=Let's all make it a bumper year for good causes, says man who gave away £30m|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lets-all-make-it-a-bumper-year-for-good-causes-says-man-who-gave-away-30m-7442487.html|access-date=18 February 2015|work=Evening Standard|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is run by [[Mark Pears]] with his younger brothers [[Trevor Pears|Trevor]] and David.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last1=Quinn|first1=James|title=Pears family comes out of the property shadows|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/8569562/Pears-family-comes-out-of-the-property-shadows.html|access-date=3 October 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=12 June 2011}}</ref>
+The William Pears Group was founded in 1952, by [[Bernard Pears]] (who changed his name from Schleicher on emigrating from Austria) and his son [[Clive Pears]].<ref name=ES>{{cite news|last1=Cohen|first1=David|title=Let's all make it a bumper year for good causes, says man who gave away £30m|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lets-all-make-it-a-bumper-year-for-good-causes-says-man-who-gave-away-30m-7442487.html|access-date=18 February 2015|work=Evening Standard|date=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is run by [[Mark Pears]] with his younger brothers [[Trevor Pears|Trevor]] and [[David Pears|David]].<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|last1=Quinn|first1=James|title=Pears family comes out of the property shadows|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/8569562/Pears-family-comes-out-of-the-property-shadows.html|access-date=3 October 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=12 June 2011}}</ref>
 According to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', [[Mark Pears]] is a director of 212 companies, a "complex labyrinth of operating and [[investment companies]]", but won't say which is the main [[holding company]] or what the group's [[annual profit]] is.<ref name=Telegraph />