Monthly Archives: January 2014



Skyscraper Restaurants provide Londoners with the Height of Dining

Posted on 27 January, 2014 by Neil Bird under Top Properties

London’s crop of skyscraper restaurants are proving hugely popular with the capital’s diners a respected guide will reveal tomorrow. The 2014 Guide to London’s Best Restaurants and Bars, published by Square Meal, shows that high rise dining was... Read More

£2m Price Tag for Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Top Properties

Jamaica Inn hotel — Cornwall’s legendary coaching house immortalised in Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name — is being sold for £2m. Included in the price is the desk on which the novelist wrote Rebecca and several of her other... Read More

Property Price Rises Lead Spanish Recovery

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Worldwide Property News

Spain — one of Europe’s recession black spots — is at last benefiting from an economic and property upturn, a new report claims. The financial services provider JP Morgan predicts the country’s economy is set to grow by one per cent this year on the... Read More

Property Owners advised to check Parking Small Print

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Industry News

Business owners are being urged to double check their property’s planning permission after a recent Supreme Court ruling backed a council’s right to block off long-standing parking bays and refuse a compensation demand. The “fine print” warning comes... Read More

Stop Squabbling North-East Developers Warn Councils

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Commercial Developments

Petty rows and territorial disputes are sabotaging the formation of a North-East “super council” and putting thousands of jobs at risk, a group of influential business leaders has claimed. In a joint letter to the Government the consortium of... Read More

Cadbury announces Investment into Bourneville Factory

Posted on 26 January, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News

Cadbury has this week announced a £75 million investment into its Bourneville headquarters. The Bournville plant has been the home of Cadbury’s since 1879, when company founders George and Richard Cadbury moved all manufacturing from the centre of... Read More

Global Standards of Property Measurement to be Introduced

Posted on by Jodee Redmond under Industry News, Worldwide Property News

Without a single standard of measurement in use worldwide, it is challenging for buyers and sellers to get a firm handle on overseas property markets. That situation will change shortly, as a new global standard will be implemented later this... Read More

Denver Named as Commercial Real Estate Market to Watch

Posted on by Jodee Redmond under Worldwide Property News

Denver's commercial real estate market has been ranked at No. 11 on the 2014 list of US "Markets to Watch" on the Emerging Trends in Real Estate report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP and the Urban Land Institute. The survey respondents reported that... Read More

Does the Rise in Sterling threaten the growth of the UK Commercial Property Market?

Posted on by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Sales and Lets, Industry News

The commercial property market has been showing positive signs of recovery for several months but the rise in the value of sterling is potentially unhelpful to the market, since it poses a threat to future growth. There has been a significant level of... Read More

UK Bosses among most confident in the World

Posted on 25 January, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News, Economy

The UK’s economic resurgence has led to hugely improved business forecasts, with exports and growth booming at present. Consequently, staff feel more secure in their positions and bosses better able to capitalise on opportunities that would have been met... Read More