All articles by Stuart Watson – Page 4
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New industrial tenants signed and sealed in Southampton and Portsmouth
Parcel operators UPS, DPD and City Link have been looking to establish new facilities in the area around Southampton and Portsmouth in recent months, helping to drive the industrial market in the area.
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Hotel group moves Inn on Premier locations
Market conditions that have made life tough for developers have opened up an opportunity for Premier Inn.
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Oil and gas fuel Surrey office take-up
The oil and gas industry has bolstered take-up in the Surrey office market.
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Need to know: Prupim’s plans for Guildford’s Friary
On 14 June Prupim completed the £150m purchase of the Friary Centre in Guildford from Hermes Real Estate.
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Q+A: Rockspring goes with flow
Rockspring has been one of the most active backers of speculative office development around the M25.
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Standard breathes Life into Crawley County Mall
Standard Life Investments is taking advantage of a stalled retail development in Crawley to strengthen the position of its County Mall scheme.
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More Bluewater for Lend Lease
Lend Lease has received a resolution to grant planning permission to extend its Bluewater shopping centre in Kent by 325,000 sq ft, which would take it to more than 2m sq ft in total.
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Muse takes a view in Basingstoke
Developer and council forge ahead with plans to revitalise Basing View.
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Occupiers turn to more ‘mature’ sheds
Sheds agents are beginning to note a recovery in the market for large older buildings.
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And finally…imagine Thurrock
It is hardly the Madison Avenue of Mad Men fame, but a shed in Tilbury will become the latest base of the European arm of international advertising and communications agency Imagination.
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E-tail redefines distribution space
Retailers could take up to 50m sq ft of warehouse space over the next five years, of which 13m sq ft will be driven by online sales, new research has found.
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The dark side: inside Tesco’s ‘virtual supermarkets’
Chain grows its network of “dark stores” to fulfil growth in online trade.
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Lancashire council keeps on trucking at Leyland site
Two sheds to replace fire-ravaged building due for completion in July.
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Burton upon Trent lands SuperGroup
Clipper Logistics has taken one of the few remaining large speculatively developed warehouses in the Midlands for fashion retailer SuperGroup
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Kier does brisk trade in Uxbridge
The returning vigour of the market for small freehold industrial units in west London is inspiring developers to look with confidence at areas and tenures that have historically been less popular
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Big shed take-up squeezed as new supply dwindles
Take-up of big sheds fell during the first quarter of 2013 compared with the last three months of 2012 (graph 1), but the supply of large new buildings continued to decline.
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Q+A: Angus Scott-Brown on Sims’ ‘IO system’
IO Group founder John Sims died in a tragic swimming accident in Sri Lanka in January.