With just two weeks to go until Christmas, we’re looking at some of the most festive places to do your shopping this winter. Across the UK, towns and cities have embraced the Christmas spirit and that can only be a good thing for consumers and ... Read more
David Cameron and George Osborne have both given their backing to the development of HS3, a high speed rail network connecting the north’s great cities. Following calls that previous plans for the second phase of HS2 missed key east-west ... Read more
UK trains would be overrun by the middle of the 2020s if HS2 didn't go ahead, according to the Area Petition Manager at HS2, Tom Hinds. Speaking to the Park Royal Business Group last week, Mr Hinds provided an update on the status of the project ... Read more
The government has unveiled its £6 billion plan to boost local economies as part of an overall £12 billion project to improve business and growth in all areas of the UK. The initial £6 billion has been split across all areas of the UK and aims to ... Read more
Research undertaken by NovaLoca has revealed the most sought after areas for office space in each region of the UK. Using data from Google Analytics to cross-examine the search term ‘office space’ with the names of over 15,000 towns and areas ... Read more
At Knight Frank’s well-attended M25 breakfast earlier this week, the firm’s head of South East Investment said demand for offices in the South East of England and the M25 region is arguably as strong now as at any time over the past six years. But ... Read more
More evidence of increased activity in UK regional office markets during Q1 2013, this time from Knight Frank, which reports a “notable” rise in take-up and a number of markets exceeding 2012’s quarterly average. Net effective rents rose across the ... Read more
Total occupier take-up of office space across the UK’s ‘Big Six’ regional markets reached a million sq ft in Q1 2013, says Jones Lang LaSalle. This is an increase of 25% compared with a year earlier; although there were regional variations, the total ... Read more
Land Securities this week reported that it had performed well during the final three months of 2012 – the third quarter of the group’s financial year. In a “difficult” market, the group said interest levels in its London offices and retail portfolios ... Read more
Of the eight main regional UK office markets covered by CBRE, Manchester is expected to be the only one to record prime office rental growth this year – forecast at 2.5%. Since the economic downturn, the market for Manchester office space has ... Read more
