All articles by Helen Thomas

  • Markets

    Long division

    Corp Real Estate Supp 2004

    Investment banks have always favoured trophy HQs, but are they being overtaken by events? Helen Thomas reports

  • Markets

    Central spark

    21 May 2004

    Developers Akeler and Ask are hoping that an education and business development facility at Central Park will allow the scheme to compete with Manchester's other office locations.

  • News

    Disney review sparks global adviser battle

    30 April 2004

    Advisory role on 8m sq ft portfolio could go to single firm.

  • Insight

    Leading lady

    8 April 2004

    Mickola Wilson is the only female chief executive of a property company in the quoted sector. Following Teesland's equity raising, she talks to Helen Thomas about number-crunching and getting on with the boys.

  • Markets

    Concrete plans

    2 April 2004

    Allied London aims to turn 1960s landmark the Brunswick Centre into a mixed-use heart for Bloomsbury.

  • Markets

    Welcome to London's most unusual shopping centre

    2 April 2004

    The world's largest collection of silver for sale lies beneath an ordinary looking office building near Chancery Lane.

  • Markets

    No longer an outsider

    19 March 2004

    Having cut its teeth on northern out-of-town retail, Thornfield shifted south and into the centres for its second wave of development.

  • Markets

    Offices fragile …

    19 March 2004

    The west London office market's recovery looks patchy, while investors are clamouring for sheds, despite low occupancy levels.

  • Markets

    Local knowledge

    6 February 2004

    Essential information, project updates and gossip.

  • Markets

    Industrial fires up

    6 February 2004

    Shed developers are coming back to Berkshire in time for an industrial revival.

  • Markets

    Local knowledge

    16 January 2004

    Essential information, project updates and gossip.

  • Markets

    Hi-tech haven

    16 January 2004

    Bromsgrove, known as a leafy retreat from the West Midlands' industrial centres, is using its rural appeal to lure hi-tech occupiers.

  • Markets

    A dose of retail therapy

    16 January 2004

    November's Legionnaires' disease scare rounded off a run of bad luck for Hereford, but a new retail scheme may aid its recovery.

  • Markets

    Magnificent seven

    5 December 2003

    Seven areas dominate the south-west and there is plenty going on in all of them.

  • Canal dreams: Hyprop has snapped up Cape Town's Canal Walk shopping centre
    Markets

    Bridging the divide

    International Supplement November 03

    Nearly 10 years on from the end of apartheid, South Africa is still a fractured society. Helen Thomas visits the country to assess regeneration efforts so far and evaluate how the property market has evolved since 1994

  • Markets

    Essex without the sex

    19 September 2003

    The safe, plodding nature of Essex's office sector may be at odds with the county's brash, tabloid image, but at least it has allowed the market to avoid the volatility of surrounding areas.

  • Markets

    Twilight zone

    13 July 2001

    The reconstruction of Basingstoke's town centre is full of challenges not least having to carry out most of the building work at night. But Festival Place faces strong competition from two recently opened rivals

  • Markets

    Street suites

    13 July 2001

    Hotel lobbies have long been the venue for impromptu business meetings. We report on how hotel operators and motorway services are cashing in on these nomadic businessmen

  • Markets

    Niche market

    13 July 2001

    News and deals from around the region

  • Markets

    Driven to distraction

    29 June 2001

    The road to construction of Toyota UK's new flagship building in Epsom followed an unlikely and sometimes torturous route. But the journey's destination was a headquarters of uncommon spectacle