Shortages of prime industrial space could mean that speculative development restarts in some areas of the UK as soon as the end of 2010, says Lambert Smith Hampton in new research published today. LSH’s National Industrial and Distribution Report ... Read more
Office business parks are struggling to keep up with the improvement in the commercial property market seen across the UK, says James Petherick at GVA Grimley in Cardiff. While Central London offices have seen a sharp jump in performance in recent ... Read more
HSBC has appointed John Herbert to the newly created role of global head of real estate. The banking group said Herbert would be overseeing all its real estate activities globally and helping to drive the creation of a coherent, international real ... Read more
Now the sweeping-up has begun after MIPIM 2010, investors and potential delegates are looking forward to next year’s get-together. The UK is to be the Guest of Honour at the property networking event in 2011 and the concluding tone of this year’s ... Read more
CB Richard Ellis has published research showing that tenant demand for office space to let in Central London remained strong in February, with take-up still above 1m sq ft, for the third month in a row. “With under offers rising in February and ... Read more
As the weary hordes head home from MIPIM, talk has turned to the costs of sending all those regional council delegates to the Cannes networking event. Property Week points out that the UK had more local authorities represented at MIPIM 2010 than any ... Read more
Never mind the get-together in Cannes this week – today a special summit is taking place in Birmingham designed to address the regeneration of UK High Streets and town centres. The Saving Britain's High Streets gathering brings together retailers, ... Read more
Derwent London, a REIT focused on commercial properties in the West End, said in its annual results statement yesterday that it would be accelerating schemes where possible “as the recovery of the central London economy appears to be gathering ... Read more
MIPIM 2010 starts today, with first-hand accounts of the property industry gathering now flooding in over the Internet (see Twitter for the latest). Although reports ahead of this week’s get-together in Cannes had suggested that it would be a ... Read more
The freehold of the London landmark building housing the retailer Liberty has been sold at a substantial premium, after it was put up for sale earlier this month. The Tudor-style 125,000 sq ft building just off London’s Regent Street has been bought ... Read more
