The Powerleague Ground in the shadow of Wembley Stadium once again played host to the IAS 5-aside football tournament this June. After winning the tournament's equivalent of the Europa League in 2013, the NovaLoca squad took a train down to London ... Read more
The 2014 World Cup started yesterday in Brazil with a fanfare of music, colours and carnival. The home nation then emerged to play the opening game, from which they delivered a crowd pleasing comeback to beat the plucky Croatians. It was a ... 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
Land Securities has announced it will spend £260m on a speculative mixed-use development in the City of London in a move it says “demonstrates our confidence in the London office market”. 1 & 2 New Ludgate in EC4 will comprise 346,000 sq ft of ... Read more
Barratt Developments has bought the former headquarters of the Department for Transport, reports the Times, and plans to turn the office space in Victoria into residential property. The £100m scheme has secured planning permission to turn the Great ... Read more
Neil Prime of Jones Lang LaSalle says speculative office activity is expected to return to the London property market in 2013, as the current development pipeline is “inadequate to meet any upturn in demand”. JLL expects around 4.3m sq ft of office ... Read more
Media and technology companies continued to dominate take-up of office space in London during the third quarter of 2012, says Cushman & Wakefield, accounting for almost 534,000 sq ft of the total 1.8m sq ft occupied during the quarter. This is ... Read more
Prime Central London retail areas have continued to thrive despite the economic gloom elsewhere, says Cushman & Wakefield, with record levels of retail space changing hands on two key streets. The firm’s research shows that 13 transactions ... Read more
The supply side is reacting faster than expected to the shortage of Grade A office space in Central London, says Savills – but the firm still expects an undersupply to continue to support rising office rents during 2012-2017. While take-up of Central ... Read more
UK property market investment activity increased during the second quarter, despite the worsening economic outlook, notes Lambert Smith Hampton in its latest UK Investment Transactions report. Total Q2 investment reached £7.83bn, which was 14% above ... Read more
