August 2010
Admiral Insurance has boosted the Cardiff office market by taking a huge pre-let of 220,000 sq ft on a new headquarters building.
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August 2010
Google’s decision to take a five-year lease on new offices in London’s Victoria has fuelled speculation that the internet giant may soon be looking for a new home in the longer term.
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July 2010
Helical Bar’s Mike Slade has made it clear that he expects to see outperformance in Central London offices and larger residential projects.
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July 2010
McKay Securities, the specialist South East real estate investor, has recently stated that the lettings market remains challenging, but that the interest in occupier enquiries has sustained in the past few months.
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July 2010
The Thames Valley office market has seen a pickup in leasing activity in the second quarter. Major lettings in the region in the past few weeks and the recent 1.1m sq ft office space placed under offer are indicators of the current market situation.
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June 2010
Bray Fox Smith, together with GKA Design, Montagu Evans and world-famous PR consultancy Porterfield got together at The Audley Arms last Wednesday for a special screening of the England-Slovenia match. Over 75 guests and hosts watched the deciding group match over beer and nibbles. The party was, as the outcome of the match, a smashing success!
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June 2010
The beleaguered Thames Valley office market has been given a much needed boost today with news of a major pre-let at the Pru’s Green Park on the outskirts of Reading.
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June 2010
Helical Bar, the well-known property development and investment group’s latest results show an increase in the value of its investment properties by 7.9% over the past year.
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May 2010
A report by the Investment Property Databank shows that growth in the property industry has sunk to a 10-month low. This follows research from over a month ago that suggested that the strength of London’s economy has led to a recovery in commercial property rental values nine months earlier than expected.
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May 2010
IVG UK Ltd, represented by Bray Fox Smith and Savills, has concluded two new lettings at 500 Capability Green in Luton to Northgate Arinso (UK) Ltd and Bay Restaurants respectively.
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April 2010
A recent report shows that central London as one of the true global cities is still a safe haven for overseas investors. The report highlights that a total of £3.85bn of central London property comprising 58 assets has been brought to the market so far this year.
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April 2010
Leading developer Gerald Ronson has warned that property developers are ‘on the endangered list’ and has challenged banks to support development.
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March 2010
A report commissioned by the London Thames Gateway Corporation predicts that Thames Gateway’s economy will grow at three times the rate of the UK’s until 2013. In the Thames Gateway area, total returns in the second quarter of 2009 were -0.5%, stronger than the -2.2% figure for the UK as a whole.
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February 2010
In a report published by Ernst & Young’s Item Club, it was warned that the upturn in commercial property could be unsustainable.
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January 2010
Land Securities have given the west end office market a large boost by committing to 3 large office, mixed use and residential schemes in the West End and Victoria.....
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January 2010
Patrick was asked to appear in a video on the Telegraph website discussing the property research database we use.
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January 2010
The office market in the South East is set for a very testing year, but with 2009’s last quarter’s take up figures due out shortly, it is widely expected that they will confirm 2009 as one of the worst office market’s in our lifetime.
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December 2009
In today’s Times, Monday December 2009, the government have stated that to help bring public finances back into line, they intend to save £10 billion through cutting quangos and Whitehall costs.
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December 2009
The investment market seems to have quickly returned to crazy levels of activity in London and the south east of England again.
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December 2009
The Christmas period is fast approaching and everybody says it is a quiet time for them as not much gets done in December, as the party season kicks into gear. Not for us, with 6 office transactions to do before we finish for Christmas, 2 of which we have got over the line, then this is a critical time for us.
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December 2009
Several days news on the Dubai World debt issue and many weeks to come no doubt. While the property woes in the Emirate itself are considerable, Dubai World also controls some significant holdings in the UK and the development holdings are generally good quality and likely to show some pre-let activity in the short term.
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December 2009
An interesting week so far with some good indicators of what is giving the property market some impetus.
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November 2009
IT, without tempting fate, seems to be running more smoothly now so we have been able to concentrate on real money generating work. Our head of IT, Rob, has had a better couple of months in respect of problem solving and general IT ‘issues’ so stress levels have now returned to normal...
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November 2009
Bray Fox Smith is a new firm of commercial surveyors set up by Paul Smith, Pat Fox and Rob Bray.
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