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The office market in the South East is set for a very testing year, but with 2009’s last quarter’s take up figures due out shortly, it is widely expected that they will confirm 2009 as one of the worst office market’s in our lifetime. 2010 should be a better year Read More
The investment market seems to have quickly returned to crazy levels of activity in London and the south east of England again. The sheer weight of money chasing product is one factor, but as usual this market is out of sync with occupational demand, which is at an all time Read More
In today’s Times, Monday December 2009, the government have stated that to help bring public finances back into line, they intend to save £10 billion through cutting quangos and Whitehall costs. This reminds us of the Lyons report and the Gershin reports of 2004. We wonder whether those relocation and Read More
The Christmas period is fast approaching and everybody says it is a quiet time for them as not much gets done in December, as the party season kicks into gear. Not for us, with 6 office transactions to do before we finish for Christmas, 2 of which we have got Read More
An interesting week so far with some good indicators of what is giving the property market some impetus. We have been provided information on a mixed bag of office investments and development land that either have short-term or no income. All of them provide opportunity to add value or create Read More
Several days news on the Dubai World debt issue and many weeks to come no doubt. While the property woes in the Emirate itself are considerable, Dubai World also controls some significant holdings in the UK and the development holdings are generally good quality and likely to show some pre-let Read More
IT, without tempting fate, seems to be running more smoothly now so we have been able to concentrate on real money generating work. Our head of IT, Rob, has had a better couple of months in respect of problem solving and general IT ‘issues’ so stress levels have now returned Read More
Bray Fox Smith is a new firm of commercial surveyors set up by Paul Smith, Pat Fox and Rob Bray. They will be specialising in all aspects of office and industrial agency from west end of London out to the M25, the Home Counties and beyond. All the partners have Read More
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