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Minerva pre-lets new building | 03 January 2010
Property developer Minerva have let 145,000 square feet of London office space to international commercial law firm Clyde & Co. The St Botolphs development is scheduled for completion in the summe ...
Minerva pre-lets new building
Fresh lease for Derwent London | 29 December 2009
Central London-focussed REIT Derwent London has let more than 24,000 square feet of office space to Fresh Trading, the company best known for its ‘Innocent’ smoothies brand. The company&rs ...
Fresh lease for Derwent London
Property development company Segro is the most likely candidate to purchase a £250 million share in the Airport Property Partnership, which owns a series of warehouses and office space around Lo ...
Segro tipped to buy Heathrow offices
Commercial property across the UK has staged a strong recovery in November, fuelling speculation that the property market crash of 2007 to 2008 might in the short-term be replaced not by a sustainable ...
Freefall Unlikely to Turn to Bubble as Investors Return
O Twelve Finds the Bottom | 13 December 2009
O Twelve Estates, the closed-ended investment company created to take advantage of a hoped-for bump in London commercial property prices as the 2012 Olympics approach, has seen its portfolio stabilise ...
O Twelve Finds the Bottom
Canary Wharf Group in huge sale | 11 December 2009
The group that owns almost 8 million square feet of prime office space in London’s second biggest financial district has agreed a £208 million sale. Canary Wharf Group is selling 5 Church ...
Canary Wharf Group in huge sale
London-based property firm Minerva has just sold its West End headquarters to Standard Life Investment Funds for a sum of £40.75 million. The figure represents a massive 20 percent rise on the v ...
Minerva sells Wigmore Street after market rise
Shaftesbury's Surprise Rise | 05 December 2009
West End property developer and landlord Shaftesbury has seen the value of its portfolio rise by 7 percent in the second and third quarters of this year, far higher than expectations. Renewed interest ...
Shaftesbury's Surprise Rise
A time to buy? | 01 December 2009
Like other asset classes, commercial property has taken a real hammering in value over the course of the credit crunch. Unlike stocks and corporate bonds, however, investors have not seen much of a ra ...
A time to buy?
A new survey suggests that around 75 percent of all businesses have maintained their needs for office space over the last half-year, though the financial sector has been hit, with London office space ...
Three-quarters of businesses maintain office space