All articles by Helen Thomas
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Markets
Long division
Investment banks have always favoured trophy HQs, but are they being overtaken by events? Helen Thomas reports
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Markets
Central spark
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.
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News
Disney review sparks global adviser battle
Advisory role on 8m sq ft portfolio could go to single firm.
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Insight
Leading lady
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.
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Markets
Concrete plans
Allied London aims to turn 1960s landmark the Brunswick Centre into a mixed-use heart for Bloomsbury.
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Markets
Welcome to London's most unusual shopping centre
The world's largest collection of silver for sale lies beneath an ordinary looking office building near Chancery Lane.
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Markets
No longer an outsider
Having cut its teeth on northern out-of-town retail, Thornfield shifted south and into the centres for its second wave of development.
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Markets
Offices fragile …
The west London office market's recovery looks patchy, while investors are clamouring for sheds, despite low occupancy levels.
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Markets
Industrial fires up
Shed developers are coming back to Berkshire in time for an industrial revival.
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Markets
Hi-tech haven
Bromsgrove, known as a leafy retreat from the West Midlands' industrial centres, is using its rural appeal to lure hi-tech occupiers.
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Markets
A dose of retail therapy
November's Legionnaires' disease scare rounded off a run of bad luck for Hereford, but a new retail scheme may aid its recovery.
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Markets
Magnificent seven
Seven areas dominate the south-west and there is plenty going on in all of them.
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Markets
Bridging the divide
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
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Markets
Essex without the sex
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.
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Markets
Twilight zone
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
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Markets
Street suites
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
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Markets
Driven to distraction
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