April 2013

In the past few years, offices in Shoreditch have become the home of media, fashion and 'creative' clients. Its warehouse-‘esque’ buildings with their exposed brickwork and wooden flooring have attracted a number of large tech companies from across the world as well as from different parts of London to the...

The First Day of Spring, as defined by the vernal equinox, was 20th March. However, after one of the longest coldest winters on record most of us would consider Sunday 14th April, almost a month later as being the First Spring Day. It is known that warmth and sunlight as...

The proportion of overseas investment in the London commercial property market has been a topic of discussion over recent years. Big players in particular are the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

UK Commercial Property Trust has recently published that there has been a decline in its year-end net asset value (also known as NAV) due to a decrease in its property portfolio value, as well as a decrease in the value of its industrial portfolio alongside its working capital outgoings.

While the general consensus is that the first quarter of 2013 has largely met the hopes of anyone involved in the property market – directly or indirectly – looking deeper, it seems that the pattern which has emerged is different from other years, and is a result of London's current...

Minefields were laid extensively in The First World War by both German and allied forces as a deadly line of defence. In The Second World War The Eighth Army's celebrated victory at El Alamein in 1942 was dependant firstly upon breaking through enemy mine fields. One of the fundamental principles...

Trends, more often than not, have a life of their own. Not least in property. Trends are contrary, wandering off in another direction when someone is trying to usher them elsewhere.

We have had floating jails, there are floating hotels, so why not floating offices? The London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has recently announced plans for a floating village on the Thames, and one logical step further would be floating offices.

Investment is all about predictability and the last five years have not been conducive to that. The latest casualty (or casualties if you count the individuals concerned) is the private equity firm, Apax Partners.