Earthware has released the results of its survey of more than 100 significant players in the online commercial property marketing sector, demonstrating that success depends not only on getting as many of the right people as possible to visit a site, ... Read more
If you are excited by the possibilities of using Google Street View to display your commercial properties for sale and to let on NovaLoca, we have a tip for you! Simply go into the “Edit” section of each property listed online and give the exact ... Read more
NovaLoca does it again – we are the first UK commercial property site to release Street View nationwide. After managing to beat Google to release the first Street View images in the UK, we are now the first to release nationwide Google Street View ... Read more
The rate of expansion by commercial developers in February was the fastest seen since May 2007, according to a survey by Savills. The report says that commercial developers signalled an overall increase in development activity during February, partly ... Read more
Cushman & Wakefield reports that more than 10% of UK shops are now available to let or vacant, with sharp differences between regions. As of February 1, the company’s Retail Availability survey shows 10.7% vacancies overall, up 0.4 percentage ... Read more
Liberty International, the UK’s largest shopping centre operator, has announced plans to separate its retail operations from the rest of its commercial property business, with both companies to trade on the London Stock Exchange. The group says ... Read more
Andrew Jones, who previously ran the £5bn retail property portfolio at British Land, is heading up a new company called Metric Property that has plans to float on the London Stock Exchange in a £150m IPO. Metric Property is hoping to take ... Read more
Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, this week told a parliamentary committee that a crackdown on commercial property lending is needed. He said that more work needed to be done to increase loan rates or tighten borrowing ... Read more
After a slower than expected start to 2010, the CB Richard Ellis Monthly Index for commercial property showed an acceleration in capital growth for February. Capital values rose by 1.4% last month, producing total returns for All Property of ... Read more
GVA Grimley has appointed a new Executive Chairman and Chief Executive as it positions itself for the “next phase of the business cycle”. The new chairman is Stephen Brown, formerly head of planning, development and regeneration, while the chief ... Read more
