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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. None of the developments has a pre let, which sends out an even stronger message to the market. Land Securities clearly sees the early signs of [...]

Patrick was asked to appear in a video on the Telegraph website discussing the property research database we use. Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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. 2010 should be a better year for M25 office take up, [...]

The investment market seems to have quickly returned to crazy levels of activity in London and the south east of England again. The sheer weight of money chasing product is one factor, but as usual this market is out of sync with occupational demand, which is at an all time low. When you see a [...]

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. This reminds us of the Lyons report and the Gershin reports of 2004. We wonder whether those relocation and cost cutting reviews ever delivered [...]