May 27, 2013
Access Self Storage has successfully secured planning consent for a change of use from industrial to offices, in order to redevelop their premises at 184 Shepherds Bush Road in Hammersmith. The Grade II listed former Ford Motors warehouse will be redeveloped into a striking 115,000 sq ft office headquarters building. Read More
May 6, 2013
Bray Fox Smith has advised Elevation Sales on the acquisition of 2,200 sq ft at 172 Tottenham Court Road. The film distributor, established 10 years ago and jointly owned by Lionsgate and Studio Canal UK, has taken the space on a 5 year lease, with 3 year break, at £42.50 Read More
April 19, 2013
Retail marketing group Dunnhumby is to lease 36,500 sq ft of office space from Standard Life Investment Funds at its Ealing Cross development, located at 78-79 Uxbridge Road. Bray Fox Smith, joint agents on the scheme with Montagu Evans, report that Dunnhumby is taking a five-year lease at £25 per Read More
April 12, 2013
Scottish Widows and Exton Estates have sold a residential development site at their eleven acre Huntercombe Park in Taplow, near Slough, to Taylor Wimpey for a price in excess of £1.5m per acre. The 3 acre plot has planning consent for 54 one, two, three and four bedroom homes. Following Read More
April 11, 2013
Bray Fox Smith has sold a site at Furze Platt in Maidenhead to Barratt Homes for a sum in excess of £15 million, on behalf of Ashill Developments. The 7.5 acre site has planning permission for 116 private residential units, including 84 private homes and 32 affordable apartments. BFS acquired Read More
February 25, 2013
Property investor Threadneedle is hoping to boost jobs in Watford by attracting a new occupier to its refurbished office building on Clarendon Road in the heart of the town. Threadneedle has launched its refurbished 20,200 sq ft office scheme at 28 Clarendon Road on to the market and is confident Read More
February 19, 2013
Electronics manufacturer JVC Europe, advised by Bray Fox Smith, has agreed to sublet warehouse space it formerly occupied at Harp View Business Park in northwest London. Nutritional products manufacturer Vitabiotics is to occupy the 94,479 sq ft warehouse element of the Orion building on the business park. Harp View Business Read More
January 26, 2013
Office vacancy rates in the West End of London were static as at the final quarter of 2012. This comes despite a 10% increase in availability in the fourth quarter of 2012. The cyclical high was 9.9% in the second quarter of 2009. Paul Smith of the office agency team Read More
January 9, 2013
Global nutrition company Herbal Life has signed a 10 year lease at Aviva Investors’ The Atrium in Uxbridge for 16,744 sq ft, at a rental of £25.50 per sq ft. Herbal Life has taken part of the 4th floor, with a 5 year break and 15 month rent free period. Read More
September 21, 2012
Occupier demand for office space in the West End of London currently stands at just over 4.5 m sq ft. After the traditionally quiet August, together with the Olympics and Paralympics Games, the West End office market jump-started back to life this week with a number of occupiers announcing new Read More