A new Scottish property database, which benefits from advanced search and reporting functionality as well as mobile applications, has been procured by Scottish Enterprise to help companies to find properties in Scotland that support their growth ... Read more
NovaLoca.com was at the OAS Development Awards last week, to celebrate the best office developments and deals across the UK in the past year. NovaLoca.com founder and MD Miranda Munn presented the award for Best Deal Outside Central London to ... Read more
British Land today said it had achieved ‘good results in challenging markets’ as it reported full-year underlying pre-tax profits up 5.1% at £269m and 5.4% growth in net rental income. Net asset value per share (EPRA) rose 4.9% to 595p as of the end ... Read more
Segro has exchanged conditional contracts for the sale of four industrial estates for £204.5m as it continues to reshape its portfolio to focus on core markets. The multi-let industrial estates are to be acquired by a fund advised by Harbert ... Read more
UK commercial development activity improved solidly in April, for the second month in a row, according to the latest research from Savills. The firm’s Total Commercial Development Activity Index came in at +8.1% last month, after a +13.1% reading in ... Read more
The gap between primary and secondary office property to let is set to widen this year, says Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm’s Q1 research into the UK office market highlights the continued rationalisation of portfolios by large occupiers and says that ... Read more
There was some improvement in the performance of the UK’s commercial property markets in April, says CBRE, with the firm’s UK Monthly Index showing that a marginal increase in headline total returns and a slowdown in capital value declines enabled ... Read more
Jones Lang LaSalle says around 3.6m sq ft of industrial floorspace was taken up in the Western Corridor (west London and the Thames Valley) during the second half of 2011, taking the total for last year to 6.1m sq ft – a jump of 45% over the 2010 ... Read more
Continuing our look at DTZ’s latest research into regional office markets, the Edinburgh and Glasgow office markets have enjoyed a strong start to the year. Take-up of offices in Edinburgh city centre during Q1 reached 127,000 sq ft, which is the ... Read more
Take-up of office space in Leeds during the first quarter was the highest for more than four years, says DTZ. In its latest research into regional office markets, DTZ says Leeds city-centre take up was 155,000 sq ft during Q1, and that this followed ... Read more
