The latest figures from Office of National Statistics have sent a shiver down the spine of most businesses. The GDP for the UK unexpectedly shrank in the final quarter of last year. The bad weather was blamed for the poor performance but even after stripping that out the economy was Read More
The West End and central London office markets will see unrivalled growth in 2011, far outstripping the City and regional office centres, buoyed by sustained occupier demand and a negligible development stream. Walking round the West End you would be hard pressed to think we are in the worst recession Read More
Exton Estates, the development company run by Stuart Bedford and James Mawson has secured funding for a new office scheme in Taplow, Buckinghamshire. The 11-acre site Wyeth Laboratories has been been bought for £6 million with backing from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. The site has scope for 100,000 sq ft Read More
If ever a deal illustrated the importance of location, it must be Reading’s Station Hill. Values plummeted after the ambitious £400m scheme was planned in 2005 and locals feared the proposed towers, piazzas, bowling alley, flats and hotel would remain on the drawing board. Worse still the vandalised 1960s buildings Read More
The investment sale of Chiswick Park in west London has got the 2011 property market off to a cracking start. Blackstone is paying £ 480 million for the 1.9 million sq ft office campus that was originally dubbed a ‘mid-urban business park’ and used the innovative Enjoy Work marketing campaign. Read More