A 48-acre Edinburgh development site has sold for 50 per cent over estimate, reflecting the strength of Scotland’s recovering property market. Jones Lang Lasalle had valued the 48-acre plot and an adjacent 60,000sq ft building at £10m in response to... Read More
Publicans, hairdressers and restaurateurs — whose businesses have long been backbone of town centres — have been invited to join the Government’s town centre think tank. Local Government minister Brandon Lewis says enlarging the Future High... Read More
Retailers are now looking for ways to cater to the needs of not only consumers, but the environment too. As well as providing space for recycling bins in car parks and encouraging consumers to re-use their plastic bags, it appears that the majority of small... Read More
Scotland Yard — the backdrop to thousands of crime stories and hundreds of film and television mysteries — is being converted into a £10,000-a-night luxury hotel. The Grade II listed former headquarters of the Metropolitan Police is one of a... Read More
London landlord Capital and Counties has received permission for another important phase in its overhaul of Covent Garden. The new public courtyard and the transformation the Carriage Hall building on Floral Street will now go ahead. The firm, which... Read More
Finding a £10 or £20 note in a pocket is usually welcome; the exception being when the pocket in question has just exited the spin cycle in the washing machine. Every year, hundreds of British consumers manage to “lose” their cash in this way – but... Read More
Britain’s airport capacity has become a highly contentious issue of late, with all parties in agreement that additional runways are essential in maintaining and expanding the country’s current rate of business growth. However, the way in which... Read More
IM PROPERTIES has completed the pre-let of a 50,000sq ft customer delivery hub at Solihull Business Park to retailer John Lewis. The new West Midland’s facility — expected to create at least 100 jobs — is the first of John Lewis’s new customer... Read More
The Autumn Statement, in which Chancellor George Osborne froze business rates increases at 2 per cent for the next two years, took a significant amount of pressure off small retail businesses operating commercial properties in town centres. However, the... Read More
2013 has been an encouraging year for British businesses, with improved economic conditions and a rising consumer confidence allowing large and small companies alike to post steady results throughout the past 12 months. With unemployment and... Read More
