Whitbread and its development partner Locate Developments have secured planning permission for a large new Premier Inn hotel and restaurant in Chipping Barnet in North London. Built on the site of a former carpark next to The Spires shopping centre and in close proximity to Barnet High Street, the property...
18th January 2019
Chinese developer ABP has appointed Cushman & Wakefield, Glenny and Savills as joint letting agents for the office part of its £1.7 billion development at Royal Albert Dock – an impressive, 35-acre site in East London. The scheme will be comprised of a massive 4.7 million sq ft of mixed-use...
14th January 2019
Continuing the trend of Asian investors making significant deals in London, Blackstone has sold the prime site at 125 Old Broad Street (once known as Stock Exchange Tower) to Singaporean investor City Developments. Not only is this yet another clear demonstration of foreign investors’ confidence in the London market, at...
11th January 2019
After announcing plans to build an electric car factory in Singapore, billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Sir James Dyson has acquired another significant property to add to his impressive portfolio — a £26 million office block at 100 Union Street in central London. Sited between Southwark and Borough Tube stations, the...
8th January 2019
Joint venture partners Hammerson and Ballymore have been attempting to develop the 10-acre site at Bishopsgate Goodsyard in Shoreditch for a number of years. However, previously proposed plans — for a 1,356-home scheme with 883,000 sq ft of office and retail space — have been met with strong opposition from...
5th January 2019
Global commercial real estate giant CBRE has added another string to its bow with the launch of Hana, a new service offering flexible working environments that will enable the firm to tap the ever-growing flexible office market. Hana will offer three services: Hana Team, Hana Meet and Hana Share, each...
2nd January 2019
Global online retail giant Amazon and the City of London Corporation are going head to head for the purchase of Barking Power station in East London in a bidding war that has now exceeded the £100 million mark. The 42-acre site closed for operations in 2014, and the firms are...
30th December 2018
Two years after it was put on the market for a huge £700 million, London Executive Offices (LEO) has finally been sold, to Celvam Management — founder of international telecoms company Lebara. The firm has not released details of the sale, but a report by Sky News has indicated that...
27th December 2018
Twentytwo Bishopsgate is set to become the new flagship offices for AXA Investment Managers when it is finally completed in late 2019, after 13 years. As it seeks to “simplify” its business operations, the development firm is consolidating its two offices in London — currently at 7 Newgate Street and...
24th December 2018
Data recently released by JLL has revealed that a huge £4.3 billion of office stock has been traded in Q3 2018. Furthermore, the most recent quarter has been so strong that — despite a 6% fall year-on-year — the running total of investment in the city so far in 2018...
21st December 2018
