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
UK regional office take-up fell 20% in 2009 compared with the previous year, according to DTZ Research. The latest market update for nine UK cities, reported by the Western Mail, shows that take-up fell on aggregate across all nine key regional ... Read more
At the BCSC Shopping Centre Management Conference being held this week, speakers have referred to a range of reasons for caution about the short-term outlook for retail property in the UK. However, they have also stated their belief that brighter ... Read more
A UK commercial property investment fund has sounded a note of caution about pricing in the short term. Investment Week says that Ignis issued a briefing note to investors in its £510m UK Property Fund last week, advising that there is potential for ... Read more
CB Richard Ellis says prime yields in the Northern Ireland commercial property market remain stable, although transactions are currently limited to very small lot sizes in towns in the region. In its bi-monthly review of the Irish commercial ... Read more
London’s famous Liberty department store building has reportedly been put up for sale. Knight Frank has been appointed as agent and has placed a price-tag of £40m on the Tudor-style landmark, according to press reports. The building is sited just off ... Read more
Further to my blog in January, “NovaLoca ranked ahead of EG Property Link”, our rankings have now improved even further! Thanks to our continued efforts we now rank a massive 104,572 websites ahead of EG Property Link. We are really pleased with ... Read more
Many of you have been loving Novaloca.com’s “pay per property” system and the ease with which charges can be made direct to clients. However, subscriptions that include all properties, automatically fed by an internal system where available, are ... Read more
