Although the pace of manufacturing output has slowed slightly in the West Midlands, the region is benefitting from the sharp rise in UK construction activity, with the local workload reaching levels not seen since 1994. According to the RICS UK Q3... Read More
The new owner of Granada Television’s Manchester headquarters has hinted entertainment will remain a part of its regeneration plans for the historic studio. Allied London — the developer behind the city’s Spinningfields business and retail... Read More
London based investment and asset manager, Ellandi, has acquired The Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle for an undisclosed sum. The community shopping centre specialist has assumed ownership of 356,700 sq ft of retail space with tenants including Marks... Read More
Scotland’s big property tax shake-up could slow construction and deter commercial investment, experts have warned. From next April the Land and Building Transaction Tax (LBTT) is replacing the current UK system of Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) levied on... Read More
Multinational banking and financial services company Societe Generale is to lease 280,000 sq ft in a new 700,000 sq ft Canary Wharf office building. Canary Wharf Group and Societe Generale have agreed a pre let for the ground to seventh floors of... Read More
With the majority of retail reports in the past year showing the Big Four supermarkets losing further ground to discounters some have begun to question the future of the big box format. Supermarkets have responded to this with high-profile marketing... Read More
Many will know Knypersley Reservoir, near the town of Biddulph in Staffordshire, as a popular place to walk the dog and get some exercise, but many won’t know of its paranormal past and haunting present. Firstly, there are several hotspots for... Read More
Debenhams chief executive Michael Sharp remains optimistic despite the retailer’s disappointing annual sales results. In the year to the 30th of August, Britain’s second largest department store recorded a profits plunge of 24.8 per cent, with... Read More
Seven years after the completion of a £25m upgrade to Sheffield railway station the value of commercial property in the area has increased by two-thirds and almost 3,000 new jobs have been created. The figures were revealed during a parliamentary... Read More
A neglected Suffolk hotel — once the home of a pioneering Royal Navy seaplane unit — has been sold for more than £400,000. Abandoned and vandalised for more than two decades the North Sea Hotel on Felixstowe’s Sea Road was recently branded “a... Read More
