Galliford Try’s and Home Group’s jv are preferred bidder on the Gateshead regeneration scheme.
Stationery, cards and gift wrap specialist retailer Paperchase is to open at the Metrocentre in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.
Sunderland city council has acquired the 26-acre former Vaux Brewery site on Wearside from Tesco, using money from the Homes and Communities Agency and One North East.
Countrywide, the UK’s largest letting agent and property services group, has bought North East specialist letting agent Property Quarters.
Highbridge Properties has been given planning consent for a 36,150 sq ft speculative data centre in North Tyneside.
Quay Hotels has secured Wyndham Hotels to operate the 202-bedroom Newcastle-Gateshead Ramada Encore Hotel in the city’s Baltic Business Quarter.
Lambert Smith Hampton has been awarded a two-and-a-half-year contract by DB Regio Tyne & Wear to manage the estate of the Tyne & Wear Metro system.
Spenhill, the development arm of supermarket Tesco, has been given the go-ahead for a £150m redevelopment of Gateshead town centre.
The emphasis is on activity as a deal-busy Caddick Developments and Sanderson Weatherall, again, take the property company honours at EG’s regional awards
Highbridge Developments has secured £175m in funding to build a data centre at Cobalt Park, North Tyneside.
Gateshead council has launched a search for a development partner on what it claims will be the UK’s largest housing regeneration project.
The masterplan for Grainger Town, a new science quarter on the site of the former Gallowgate brewery in Newcastle upon Tyne has been unveiled.