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
Colliers CRE expects headline rents over the next three years for office space in central Birmingham to rise significantly, reaching £31.00 per sq ft by 2013. In its latest update on the market for office property in the centre of Birmingham, the ... Read more
West Midlands commercial property expert David Penn is warning that a lack of building stock is posing a threat to recovery in the industry. Penn, managing director of Shortland Horne Commercial, told the Birmingham Post that there was a shortage of ... Read more
The British Retail Consortium says retailers are under pressure from the system used to calculate business rates, and has asked Eric Pickles, secretary of state for communities and local government, to use a different method in future. The government ... Read more
It’s World Green Building Week – and today at London’s City Hall Boris Johnson called on banks to support property owners in carrying out environmentally-friendly refurbishments in the capital. Johnson said the Greater London Authority had already ... Read more
Some pace came out of the market for Central London office space during August, says CB Richard Ellis, following two months of growth that outpaced the general trend. Take-up dived 58% in August to 0.6m sq ft, the lowest level since July 2009. ... Read more
On the whole, commercial property occupiers in the UK feel that their landlords provide a moderate level of service, but there is plenty of room for improvement. So says the Occupier Satisfaction Survey for 2010, published today by the Property ... Read more
GVA Grimley’s UK economic and property market review for the third quarter of 2010 highlights the fragility of occupier demand and the sharp difference between the market for Central London office space and other commercial property elsewhere in the ... Read more
More today on the decline in activity among commercial property developers, this time from Savills, whose latest data on the subject shows August saw the steepest fall in development activity for 14 months. As well as the cutbacks among public-sector ... Read more
