Manchester’s old Granada Studios, where Coronation Street was filmed for over 50 years, is being marketed as a city centre media and arts quarter by developers Allied London. Allied London's Spinningfields development The 13.5 acre site, adjacent to... Read More
After years of funding delays Newcastle’s £200m Stephenson Quarter development now looks set to welcome its first tenants by the summer of 2015. The 10-acre site behind Newcastle Central Station — named after the Robert Stephenson train making... Read More
The UK commercial property market has finally turned the corner following six years in the doldrums. However, until recently, the vast majority of activity has been focussed on London and other major business centres such as Manchester and Birmingham, with... Read More
Work is expected to start late this spring on a pioneering “customisable” office block in the heart of Manchester’s business district. Initially unveiled as a concept at MIPIM, the international real estate show, in 2012 the nine-storey Cotton... Read More
Nigeria is now the most expensive country in sub-Saharan Africa to rent commercial office space, a new survey claims. The report, by Broll Property Services, says that businesses are now paying $37 a month for a square metre of Grade A office space in... Read More
The global commercial investment group CBRE is awaiting European Commission clearance for its £250m takeover of the British-based building services provider Norland. Norland — which employs 4,000 people across 14 offices and serves 300 existing... Read More
It started — where else? — in America where Apple is building a “spaceship” office complex for its developers and designers and Google encourages its staff to scramble between floors using climbing walls. What started with basketball hoops and... Read More
The Spanish billionaire, Amancio Ortega, is reported to have purchased an office building in the heart of London’s West End for £410m. Madrid's Torre Picasso is among Ortega's property portfolio Although information about the deal is scarce,... Read More
Work is expected to start this year on two multi-million pound office developments in the centre of Birmingham. The two office blocks — less than half-a-mile apart on either side of the city’s Snowhill railway station — are both expected to be... Read More
Capitalising on its winning bid to stage Expo2020, Dubai has opened the first freehold commercial property in the centre of Deira. The 12-storey Centurion Star Tower is a joint venture between Royal Star International and Centurion Residence Limited... Read More
