• Coventry Council confirms new Friargate office

    Coventry City Council has confirmed its plans to become the first tenant at the city’s Friargate business district development.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Government rejects calls to scrap out-of-date planning guidance

    The government has rejected recommendations that would have seen the immediate cancellation of out-of-date planning guidance.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Topland relocates

    Topland Group will move its London head office to the premises next door on Wigmore Street in London it was announced today.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Retail bodies hit out at "ridiculous" business rate delays

    The Association of Convenience Stores, the British Council of Shopping Centres and the Distressed Town Centre Taskforce have waded into the debate around business rates with calls for a rethink on the revaluation delay.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • VOA appeals to Supreme Court over City rates decision

    The Valuation Office Agency is appealing a court decision that determined how rates should be assessed for two floors of the same property.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Development agreement signed at Greenwich

    An exclusivity agreement has been signed to bring about the development of the Alcatel-Lucent site on the Greenwich Peninsula.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • BRC warns business rates hamper store openings

    The head of the British Retail Consortium has warned that high business rates are hitting store openings.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • “Dragons’ Den” investor launches estate agency

    The venture capital firm of “Dragons’ Den” investor James Caan, Hamilton Bradshaw Real Estate, has launched a Surrey-based estate agency called Ivy Gate.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Cushman hires new head of residential from Jones Lang LaSalle

    Cushman & Wakefield has enlarged its residential team in London by hiring two residential agents, including one partner, from Jones Lang LaSalle.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Big Yellow enjoys “a little more optimism” after profit increase

    Storage company Big Yellow Group today reported an 8% rise in profit, as its chairman confided a little more optimism about the market than in previous years to shareholders in its annual results.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Alliance Boots launches Nottingham business incubator site

    Alliance Boots has teamed up with BioCity, the UK’s bioscience incubation company, to set up a new business incubator site focused on health and wellness, called MediCity.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Cheesegrater 51% prelet after 111,000 sq ft deal

    British Land and Oxford Properties have exchanged contracts with insurer Amlin to prelet 111,000 sq ft of space at the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, also known as the Cheesegrater.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Holyoake wins consent for 42 flats in Grosvenor Gardens

    Westminster City Council has granted full planning permission to Mark Holyoake’s Oakvest for the conversion of a mansion block in Grosvenor Gardens formerly owned by David Pearl.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • NewRiver agrees 71,000 sq ft Morrisons prelet in Hampshire

    NewRiver Retail has signed a prelet with Morrisons at its Locks Heath Shopping Centre in Fareham, Hampshire, under plans to extend the mall.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • BlackRock property business doubles in size with MGPA buy

    BlackRock has confirmed today that it is planning to acquire opportunity fund manager MGPA, as revealed by Property Week last month.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • BPF calls for further changes to judicial reviews

    The British Property Federation has urged the government to streamline the judicial review process in order to reduce unnecessary delays and cost to development projects.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 21 05 13

  • Bidder picked for giant Irish portfolio

    A bidder has been selected to buy the €270m Castle Market Holdings portfolio, propertyweek.com can reveal.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 20 05 13

  • Chinese university explores West London campus

    Imperial College London has signed a memorandum of understanding with Zhejiang University to explore creating a campus for the university at Imperial’s landholding’s in West London’s White City.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 20 05 13

  • Starwood in £250m Heron Tower loan talks

    Starwood Capital is in talks with Gerald Ronson’s Heron International to provide a £250m refinancing for its flagship Heron Tower scheme.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 20 05 13

  • Bird & Bird signs New Fetter Lane prelet

    Great Portland Estates and the City of London Corporation have confirmed a prelet at New Fetter Lane to law firm Bird & Bird, as first tipped by Property Week in March.
    Property Week - LATEST PROPERTY NEWS: 20 05 13