All articles by Christine Eade – Page 2
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Insight
Soaring demand puts pressure on Thames Valley industrial market
The surging increase in online purchases and the need to deliver an ever-increasing volume of parcels is creating a crisis in the Thames Valley industrial market.
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Insight
Thames Valley developers hope Crossrail will bring occupiers from far and wide
M G Real Estate made headlines last week when it confirmed one of the biggest lettings in the Thames Valley market for a decade, with British energy company SSE leasing the entire 186,000 sq ft Number 1, Forbury Place in Reading town centre.
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Markets
Maidenhead’s plans to be a waterside destination are going full steam ahead
Although surrounded by some of the most prosperous villages in the country, Maidenhead has never really taken off since it underwent a patchy redevelopment 40 years ago.
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Markets
Welsh government steps away from Cardiff development
The Welsh government’s move to step away from property development caught many in the sector by surprise.
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Markets
Q&A: Bristol’s mayor on game-changing sorting office deal
Bristol’s mayor, George Ferguson, last month convinced Bristol City Council to buy the graffiti-covered concrete frame of the former Royal Mail sorting office from its owner, Kian Gwun Land.
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Markets
Out with the new in Bristol as tenants hunt for refurbs
Bristol’s office tenants are behaving like reformed shopaholics.
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Markets
Masterplans are first step in revitalisation of Surrey towns
The residents of small Surrey towns often complain their centres are losing out to the larger places to shop in the county, such as Guildford.
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Markets
Office-to-resi conversions transform South East towns
Towns and cities across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire all share a similar problem: all have experienced rising house prices and stagnant office rents, with a great number of residents commuting.
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Markets
Business park developer injects life into rural East Sussex
John Shaw, chief executive of SeaChange Sussex, a not-for-profit property development company, lives the dream of every property developer as he witnesses partitions being taken down from Glovers House, a mile outside Bexhill.
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Markets
Dumbbell shopping centre Intu Lakeside flexes its muscles
For the last quarter of a century, Intu Lakeside has been held up as the best example of a dumbbell shopping centre: that is, House of Fraser at one end and Debenhams at the other, separated by two levels of smaller shops.
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Markets
Premium rents for Cambridge office space that makes the grade
Before the year ends, office tenants will have to pay £35/sq ft to take space in the centre of Cambridge, so acute is the shortage of top-quality accommodation.
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Markets
US biotechnology company doses up on space in Cambridge
In August, Northwest Biotherapeutics, based in Bethesda, Maryland, bought 500 acres of farmland and adjoining warehouses of 275,000 and 48,000 sq ft at Sawston, five miles south of Cambridge.
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Markets
Prime office space in Cambridge is apple of technology giant’s eye
The magnetic pull of Cambridge on the worldwide technology industry is best illustrated by global giant Apple, which is now fitting out its new facility at 90 Hills Road.
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Markets
Developers look to draw London occupiers west to Reading
Occupiers are being urged to consider Reading as an attractive alternative to more expensive locations in west London.
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Markets
Investors plan to buy back Swindon's Brunel shopping centre
The Brunel, Swindon’s covered in-town shopping centre, may end its three-and-a-half years in receivership in the next couple of months.
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Markets
Space shortage may hit Milton Keynes
With a lack of speculative development in the region, buildings are being bought and improved.
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Markets
Demolition under way ahead of Oxford’s Westgate centre revamp
Oxford’s Westgate Centre is finally being redeveloped.
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Markets
Cardiff looks to new schemes and refurbs to meet rising office demand
Prospective office occupiers looking for space in Cardiff are facing stiff competition.
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Markets
St Modwen predicts industrial site will flourish as spec building starts
St Modwen, owner of Wales’s largest development site, just three miles from Newport, is aiming to replicate the strategy that has already seen it create industrial life in Avonmouth and Gloucestershire.
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Markets
Richard Hayward returns to the fray with Beachcliff development
Four miles west of Cardiff, in the quaint Edwardian seaside resort of Penarth, this month saw the opening of Beachcliff, a development of flats, houses and a nine-room boutique hotel above a luxury restaurant.