Glasgow
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Rising rents behind housing benefit bill of £25bn
The housing benefit bill is estimated at £25bn for 2015-16, driven by rising rents in many of the country’s better-off cities and a lack of affordable housing, research from think…
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Glasgow gets its mojo back
Glasgow may not feature in recent lists of top places to invest, but with more than £1bn of investment coming through a City Deal, the mood was positive at the…
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Scottish law firm sets up Glasgow base
Scottish law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has secured the third floor of M&G Real Estate’s 1 West Regent Street in Glasgow city centre on a 10-year lease.
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Scottish referendum ‘old news’ say Glasgow experts
Investors should not be concerned about political uncertainty in Scotland, according to the panelists at Estates Gazette’s Glasgow Question Time.
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Manchester a draw for commercial property investment
Manchester attracted £8.2bn of commercial property investment, putting it ahead of Birmingham at £6.5bn and Glasgow at £5.3bn, a survey by CBRE shows.
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Bilfinger GVA names regional office heads
Bilfinger GVA has appointed a trio of regional senior directors to lead its offices in Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow
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UKCPT buys Glasgow’s Cineworld in £29.2m deal
UK Commercial Property Trust has bought Glasgow’s Cineworld, which at more than 200ft high is the world’s highest cinema, in a £29.2m deal.
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U+I nets £2.7m from asset sales
U+I Group has made a £2.7m profit from the sale of assets in Watford and Glasgow
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Wave of spec schemes teed up in Glasgow
Titan Investors and HFD Group are set to bring forward major speculative office schemes to kick off the next wave of development in Glasgow city centre.
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Focus reception: Word on the street
The Focus reception tour bus made its final stop in Glasgow last month at a favourite venue in the city, the 29 Club.
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Stuck in the sidings
Land Securities has postponed its extension to Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries shopping centre. Claire Robson asks why, and what the implications might be for the city
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Market falls by 25%
JLL regains top spot, but Glasgow market has contracted on every metric,