Bowyer Bryce has let office space in St Albans at the New Barnes Mill – a 19th century mill building that has been redeveloped to provide modern offices. Situated next to the Sopworth House Hotel, the leased offices on the first floor of the building ... Read more
A recent office leasing deal in Mayfair and St James's has reminded James Roberts at Knight Frank of the ongoing popularity of this area and its exclusive status. Writing in the Knight Frank Global Briefing blog, he says the letting of the top floor ... Read more
Andrew Carter, chief executive of the Centre for Cities, which launched a new report entitled ‘Making the Grade’ at the The British Council for Offices annual conference in Manchester this week, says smaller UK cities are sometimes turning down ... Read more
NovaLoca.com was at the OAS Development Awards last week, to celebrate the best office developments and deals across the UK in the past year. NovaLoca.com founder and MD Miranda Munn presented the award for Best Deal Outside Central London to ... Read more
British Land today said it had achieved ‘good results in challenging markets’ as it reported full-year underlying pre-tax profits up 5.1% at £269m and 5.4% growth in net rental income. Net asset value per share (EPRA) rose 4.9% to 595p as of the end ... Read more
The gap between primary and secondary office property to let is set to widen this year, says Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm’s Q1 research into the UK office market highlights the continued rationalisation of portfolios by large occupiers and says that ... Read more
There was some improvement in the performance of the UK’s commercial property markets in April, says CBRE, with the firm’s UK Monthly Index showing that a marginal increase in headline total returns and a slowdown in capital value declines enabled ... Read more
Continuing our look at DTZ’s latest research into regional office markets, the Edinburgh and Glasgow office markets have enjoyed a strong start to the year. Take-up of offices in Edinburgh city centre during Q1 reached 127,000 sq ft, which is the ... Read more
Take-up of office space in Leeds during the first quarter was the highest for more than four years, says DTZ. In its latest research into regional office markets, DTZ says Leeds city-centre take up was 155,000 sq ft during Q1, and that this followed ... Read more
DTZ’s latest research into the market for office space in Central London has found that the West End offices market was the strongest during the first quarter, with occupiers in the retail sector boosting activity, while leasing activity in the ... Read more
