Lisa Pilkington
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St Modwen names new finance director
Bill Oliver is joining development and investment company St Modwen Properties as finance director at the end of the month. Oliver, previously finance director of Dwyer Estates, has over 20…
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DTI’s office in SW1 sold by Frogmore for £18.9m
Frogmore Estates, in association with City & General, has sold 4 Abbey Orchard Street, London SW1, for £18.9m on an initial yield of 6.8%.
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Hoteliers queue up for east London exhibition centre
Negotiations between some of the hotel sector’s biggest names and the developer of a £500m exhibition centre in east London could result in the addition of another 1,150 hotel rooms…
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Tesco expands online offer
Tesco has announced it is to triple the number of stores providing its online shopping service – Tesco Direct, within the next 12 months to cover 90% of the UK’s…
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Northern expert moves to FPDSavills
Paul Bullman is joining FPDSavills’ Manchester office. He will head its asset and management business departments for the north of England.
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Frogmore adds fashionable trio to Triangle line-up
Frogmore has signed up three new tenants for its Triangle retail scheme on Manchester’s former Corn Exchange site. Fashion retailer Ted Baker is opening a 200 sq m (2,140 sq…
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Bristol council offers city centre site for redevelopment
Bristol council is inviting bids for a city centre site earmarked for redevelopment as a mixed-use scheme. The 0.8ha (2-acre) site is currently occupied by the council’s 5,574 sq m…
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MWB to open serviced office in Edinburgh
MWB Business Exchange has opened its first serviced office in Scotland. It has taken 3,345 sq m (36,000 sq ft) at 9-10 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh, at £226per sq m…
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Luxury hotel latest idea for Manchester’s Free Trade Hall
French hotel operator Accor has unveiled plans to turn Manchester’s historic Free Trade Hall into a £30m four-star hotel. Detailed proposals for the 233-bed luxury hotel are to be submitted…
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CGI in major Birmingham buy
In a major vote of confidence for Birmingham city centre’s office market, German investor CGI is speculatively funding Richardson Barberry’s No 1 Colmore Square for around £65m.
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Freeholders look at Ascot Mayfair sale-and-leaseback
Singaporean serviced apartment operators Scotts Holdings and DBS Land are considering a £26m sale-and-leaseback of their freehold on the Ascot Mayfair, W1.
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Lack of supply proving tricky for central Birmingham
Central Birmingham’s office market is suffering a dearth of grade A space, according Jones Lang LaSalle’s West Midlands office review. The report states for the whole region total active demand…