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When HSBC announced last June that it was leaving its landmark HO tower at 8 Canada Square in Canary Wharf for the smaller Panorama scheme at St Paul's in the [...]

When housing secretary Michael Gove talked of bringing 'comprehensive regeneration' to Leeds in his flagship housing speech this summer, it was welcome if not entirely new news for the city. [...]

European hotel deals surged to their highest level in five years in the first half of 2024, with London and Dublin key to a strong investment revival, according to data [...]

UK hotel transaction volumes rose by 210[pounds sterling] to [pounds sterling]3.9bn in the first half of 2024, the highest level since the first half of 2015, according to data from [...]

The head of laboratory leasing, UK and Ireland, at Kadans Science Partner on how she got started in property, her top podcast and music choices, the superpower she wishes she [...]

'It was quite a big jump, from [pounds sterling]38/sq ft to [pounds sterling]42.50/sq ft. Historically you see rents jump by 50p or [pounds sterling]1, but that was a substantial leap. [...]

At the end of October, hundreds of Durham University students queued for hours in the streets hoping to secure accommodation for the 2023-24 academic year. The shortage of housing in [...]

Derwent London has reported that it signed new leases totalling [pounds sterling]5.4m in Q1 2024, with a further [pounds sterling]4.3m under offer, following a [pounds sterling]1.8m leasing deal with Cushman [...]

Morgan Stanley's Glasgow HQ has been put up for sale in what could be one of the biggest deals in the city's office market this year. Knight Frank and Cushman [...]

Editor: Until now, headlines reporting on the state of the central London office market have been uncertain at best. It is refreshing to see that numbers are finally revealing the [...]

HOTELS David Parsley The UK hotel investment market hit a post-Covid high during the first three months of the year as [pounds sterling]1.7bn was pumped into the sector, according to [...]

Office-to-hotel conversions are a growing trend in London, especially in the City, where fast-tracked planning for conversions has spearheaded a massive surge in projects to transform ageing or disused office [...]

Cushman & Wakefield became the fourth-largest agency group to enter the flexible workspace market in 18 months this February when it launched INDEGO, which will run flexible workspaces for its [...]

Spanish property firm Metrovacesa, which had bought the HSBC Tower in London's Canary Wharf for [pounds sterling]1.09bn in 2007, struggled to refinance the loan HSBC underwrote to finance the deal. [...]

Revenue in the self-storage industry is set to exceed [pounds sterling]1bn for the first time in 2023 as the sector continues to grow following a boom at the start of [...]

How did you join the property industry? I had no idea surveying was even a job as I did not do enough research into the property master's I had signed [...]

Key UK and German cities including London, Manchester, Hamburg and Munich are the most expensive European locations in which to fit out an office, reveals Cushman & Wakefield data, with [...]

HSBC announced its decision to keep its HQ in the UK after a unanimous vote by board members. Despite the bank's strategic focus on Asia, London was seen to be [...]

Week ending 25.01.23 1. HSBC appoints Cushman & Wakefield to review options 2. Lendlease JV submits new plans for megascheme 3. Get Living faces test case of [pounds sterling]27m fire [...]

HSBC Holdings has appointed Cushman & Wakefield to conduct a strategic review of its occupational requirements for its global HQ in London and advise on its long-term property strategy. The [...]

DEAL Winner: Battersea Power Station Development Company - Apple Campus US tech giant Apple made a major splash in the London office market last September when it announced plans to [...]

Motoring organisation the AA has taken 11,765 sq ft of office space at Orbit Developments' Park Square in Cheadle, south Manchester. The out-of-town development has been updated to create a [...]

Cushman & Wakefield and JLL have been appointed leasing agents for an 800,000 sq ft commercial laboratory development in London's Docklands. Developer Canary Wharf Group and investor Kadans Science Partner [...]

Lewis Smith, UK residential capital markets partner at property adviser Cushman & Wakefield, gives his take on the buoyant build-to-rent (BTR) sector and its chances of weathering the coming economic [...]

During lockdown, we endlessly debated how the pandemic would affect office working, but were we on the right track? In October 2020, I moderated a lively panel for our Mishcon [...]

Manhattan's Q1 2022 office vacancy rate stood at a record 22%. Yet, newly released data show that one major commercial corridor, under-sung Midtown Sixth Avenue, weathered the pandemic with a [...]

High demand and a shortage of quality new buildings mean competition to buy offices suitable for refurbishment in Manchester city centre is hotting up and landlords and developers are having [...]

London submarkets benefiting from Crossrail's connectivity are set to see office rents continue to soar, outperforming traditional hubs such as the West End and the City, according to London office [...]

UBS funds hotel and office UBS Asset Management Real Estate & Private Markets has forward-funded a [pounds sterling]100m GDV hotel and office asset on 39 East Road in London to [...]

Only four of the UK's top 10 surveying firms have published data on their ethnicity pay gaps (EPGs) to date--although a further three said they would publish theirs later this [...]

The Scalpel office tower in the City of London is in the final stages of being acquired by a Singaporean investorfor around [pounds sterling]820m -16 months after Property Week revealed [...]

Native Land is under offer to buy New London House, next to Fenchurch Street Station in the City of London, for more than [euro]70m, Property Week understands. Orchard Street Investment [...]

Property Weeks 2014 survey reflects a buoyant market leading to growth for many firms. Felicity Francis reports * The growth between Property Week's 2013 agency survey and this year's survey [...]

50 Will Lewis, OBI Having departed rival Manchester firm WHR in 2010, Lewis is today more than just a rising star, with occupier work, letting, investment agency and even development [...]

Since the pandemic began, there has been a common refrain from office agents and developers: the post-pandemic desire for home working will not kill the central London office market. Instead, [...]

The flight to quality among central London office occupiers will continue as the market enters a 'post-pandemic new normal', predicts Cushman & Wakefield. Data from the agency shared exclusively with [...]

AECOM has taken a pre-let from Canmoor on 19,709 sq ft at LGIM Real Assets' 10 Bricket Road office development in St Albans. AECOM will occupy the ground and first [...]

Great Portland Estates (CPE) has pre-let 121,800 sq ft of office space to telecommunications company Inmarsat Clobal at 50 Finsbury Square in the City of London. The firm is undertaking [...]

Canon has taken the full 151,000 sq ft at The Bower, Stockley Park's largest self-contained building, for itsUKand European headquarters. It is the biggest letting at the parkfor 30 years [...]

Partners buys hotels Private markets firm Partners Group has acquired a portfolio of Travelodge hotels in Australia with a gross asset value of $620m ([pounds sterling]332.9m). Partners will purchase the [...]

The Department for Work & Pensions has taken 18,000 sq ft of office space at 25 Settles Street in Whitechapel, London. It has taken space on the lower ground, ground [...]

CSquared RE has hired former Cushman & Wakefield and BNP Paribas Real Estate agents to launch a Bristol office agency team. C&W agents Andy Heath and Seonaid Butler and former [...]

Research shows an increase in occupancy rates, as well as a rise in the supply of space and rents. Simon Creasey asks what's in store for operators UK self-storage operators [...]

* The combined turnover for the top 56 firms increased by [pounds sterling]127.7m, or 5.8%, on last year. The rise is almost exactly the same as 2012, when it also [...]

Central London office take-up totalled 1.28m sq ft in the first quarter of 2021, the highest since the beginning of lockdown in March last year. The take-up is up 117% [...]

Magdalen College Oxford is selling a 40% equity share in The Oxford Science Park (TOSP) and has appointed Cushman & Wakefield to find a strategic partner. The joint venture would [...]

Business continues to slowly improve for property services firms. This year's survey shows: * The combined turnover for the top 60 firms increased by [pounds sterling]128.3m, or 5.8%, higher than [...]

Agents' fortunes are improving. This year's survey showed; * The combined turnover for the top 60 firms was around [pounds sterling]210m more than in 2010, when [pounds sterling]150m was wiped [...]

Political and economic uncertainty is driving investors to reconsider their investment portfolios and driving them towards alternatives more than ever. Alternative property provides a level of shelter from the cyclical [...]

This year's league table shows that firms are still finding doing business a long, hard grind. * More than [pounds sterling]150m has been wiped off last year's turnover of Britain's [...]