In the Industry News category you can expect to find articles relating to all aspects of the UK commercial property market. These can be humorous as well as serious giving readers a wide variety of material to choose from.
It is hoped in Yorkshire, that Leeds will soon be challenging the North’s traditional commercial property heavyweight, Manchester, following completion of the Trinity Leeds Scheme. Trinity Leeds is a £350 million development which will offer over 120... Read More
The Royal Wedding may have slipped from the news but in commercial property a new royal story has surfaced. Mary Portas, retail marketing consultant and star of TV programme ‘The Queen of Shops’, has been appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to head... Read More
Land Securities is sitting pretty, on top of a gleaming, fully operational commercial property portfolio. It is gazing up at the sky, seeing clouds spelling out the phrase ‘pre-tax profits of £1.24bn’. These are the full-year figures posted by the... Read More
‘Time ladies and gentlemen please!’ is the call from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), as it announces plans to offload the 900 pubs in its impressive commercial property portfolio. Among those it is asking to pass back their empties and vacate the... Read More
A story involving the Daily Telegraph newspaper, haulage company the Stobart Group and a £140m commercial property deal has been doing the rounds, raising a number of questions and eyebrows and receiving few answers. Four years ago, Stobart Group chairman... Read More
I am sure that we have all thought of working from home as opposed to in a serviced office or commercial property of some sort but what if we don’t have an extra room to turn into a serviced office? Well, then we could look at using the bedroom as a... Read More
The news arrived on Tuesday, that Iceland (the country not the supermarket chain) has once again brought Europe to a standstill. Okay, perhaps that is a little over dramatic, but the fresh ash cloud is sure to have a knock on effect on the UK’s commercial... Read More
The Olympic games in London, will it help or hinder our property woes? Will the prices of commerecial property and serviced offices leap ahead like a long jumper or drop like a shot put. Well, it’s difficult to find agreement over this. There are so many... Read More
Remember when Dubai was the hottest commercial property market in the world. Commercial property, apartments, serviced offices – whatever you invested in, your money seemed to double or even triple every few months. Well, the property crash has put a... Read More
In the serviced offices were I work we have a custom of dress down Friday. We’re not talking shorts and vest here, merely casual and comfortable. But last month, just for a change, someone suggested a ‘No technology Friday.’ We would all come into... Read More
In this section we carry articles covering a diversity of topics. You will find news about supermarket commercial property expansions alongside the results of customer service surveys.
We also take a look at how businesses can benefit from sporting events, public holidays and spells of good weather. On the other hand we ask how they might cope with transport problems or industrial action.
Together with these stories you will find articles on dogs in the workplace, the stress reducing qualities of office plants and the reasons for our expanding waistlines. So if you want your commercial property news to contain a little variety, this is the page for you.
