The market for office space to let in the City of London has developed two clear tiers, says James Gillett at NB Real Estate. Occupiers are fighting over the best available space and taking advantage of the incentives available to upgrade to Grade A ... Read more
Further to yesterday's post, we checked our rating at Website Grader just before the new EGPL site went live and it seems the gap between the two sites has widened even further. In January NovaLoca was almost 53,000 points ahead of EGPL but now it ... Read more
We were genuinely surprised here at NovaLoca to see the new property website at EG PropertyLink (now propertylink on estatesgazette.com). But the surprise may have been rather nasty for those hoping to use the site to find new commercial property to ... Read more
Banks’ strict lending criteria and a lack of suitable opportunities are stopping many lenders from lending on real estate, despite their strong ambitions to do so, says Savills. In its latest list of the top 12 most active bigger-ticket lenders – ... Read more
Reuters is reporting this morning that the latest Commercial Property Confidence Monitor from Lloyds Banking Group shows that 46% of the property professionals from medium and large businesses surveyed this quarter expect no broad improvement in the ... Read more
Savills has been appointed to sell the Halton Lea shopping centre in Runcorn, almost a year since the mall went into receivership after its owners got into difficulties over the mortgage on the retail property. The guide price is £27.8m. Morgan ... Read more
Although take-up of office space in Manchester slowed during the first half of this year, demand remains healthy and steady absorption of Grade A space in the city looks set to continue, says Colliers CRE in new research. The firm points out that ... Read more
Activity among corporate occupiers in the M25 office market is rising, according to Savills. The firm’s latest research into the market for office space to let in the M25 area shows that corporates are increasingly seeking to take advantage of the ... Read more
Only about one third of occupiers are measuring their environmental performance, according to a benchmarking survey conducted by DTZ and CoreNet Global. Reporting the results, DTZ says that despite increasing pressure on companies to be more socially ... Read more
David Hutchings, partner in Cushman & Wakefield’s European Research team, notes that retail property markets are starting to look more interesting, and in some cases, more active as well. The group’s recent global research into retail rental ... Read more
