It’s that time of year when the internet begins to list predictions for what will be trending in the year to come. Whether its property developments, architecture, design or technology we’ve done the web search so you don’t have to. Here’s a brief ... Read more
Housing Minister Esther McVey recently announced plans to promote the release of public sector data to support the growing proptech sector and property developers in the UK. What is Proptech? Proptech is a combination of the words ‘property’ ... Read more
In October this year we took an 11 week snapshot of all available Greater London and M25 area listings on NovaLoca. For this report we compared properties listed on 15th July with those listed on 1st October. Details and exact dates of deals were ... Read more
The Surrey commercial property market continues to be a popular choice for businesses and investors being so close to Central London. However, it is not immune from the slowdown in the global economy and continued uncertainty caused by BREXIT, which ... Read more
There has been much recent talk in the commercial property sector regarding a lack of Grade A office stock. What does Grade A mean and what other grades are there? Office property is usually given one of three classifications: Grade A, B or C in ... Read more
SBH Page & Read reported in their recent Locater newsletter that there is a shortage of good quality industrial property in London as it is lost to residential redevelopment, such as the industrial area of Hackney Wick. However there are still ... Read more
Despite the well reported problems with WeWork, the largest private tenant in London, take up of flex space (which covers coworking space, serviced offices and centres that have both shared and private space) is still high. A recent Guardian article ... Read more
Although many companies choose to rent a commercial property there are advantages to purchasing premises. You will need more money to begin with in the form of a deposit which will be approx. 20-30% of the property value but buying gives you control ... Read more
In our previous Scottish Spring Report we took a six week snapshot of all available Scottish listings on NovaLoca. For our summer/autumn report we compared 4,800 properties during an 11 week period between July and October, looking at 127 companies. ... Read more
You’ve probably encountered Augmented Reality (AR) without realising it. Those Snapchat filters that add effects over faces and are regularly posted on social media use this technology. It is reported that there are 2.5 billion Snapchats a day, ... Read more
