Office Space July 10, 2011 Tall is beautiful: London’s towers Look west: three new Ealing developments as Crossrail improves its City connections
All the world buys into London July 10, 2011 Office Space CENTRAL London looks set to be the prime beneficiary of a renewed appetite for direct investment into UK commercial property. The capital already tops the league table of largest global property investment markets, netting close on £11bn in 2010, significantly more than closest rivals Tokyo, Paris and New York. And the prospects for [...]
Focus on Ealing: West is the best July 10, 2011 Office Space WITH the clamour and disruption of Crossrail making itself known across central London, investors can seek consolation in turning their thoughts to its profitable prospects in one of London’s most tranquil outposts. Ealing, dubbed “Queen of Suburbs” by no less an authority than Nikolaus Pevsner, will benefit from not one but two Crossrail [...]
The big picture: London property July 10, 2011 Office Space IT’S a game of two halves for central London’s commercial property market: an early trip to the showers for the office sector, while the retail sector is playing into extra time. Across London’s core office pitches, from the financial zones of Canary Wharf and the City, to the media and head office blocks [...]
The 9 projects that show the future of commercial space July 10, 2011 Office Space ACROSS the capital, thrilling new commercial buildings are springing up, from the City’s twenty-first century office towers to Europe’s largest urban shopping centre at Stratford. Andrew Deverell-Smith, managing director of property recruitment specialists Deverell Smith Recruitment, says “for those of us with so much at stake in the property industry, it is refreshing [...]
Architecture is frozen ambition July 10, 2011 Office Space Despite talk that tall buildings have had their day, skyscrapers still reflect our highest values TALL buildings are a mirror of human confidence, ability and enthusiasm. They reflect our belief in our own capabilities to design and build them, and in the appetites of the markets to fund, lease and buy them. In [...]
Opportunities for careful investors July 10, 2011 Office Space Residential provides commercial returns if you pick well THE current financial climate is making it harder to decipher where investors are going to find returns. The rates on holding cash are low, bond yields in general have narrowed substantially and there is much uncertainty on the outlook for the stock market. In addition, [...]
ROTHSCHILD COURTS OLIGARCHS UNDER £1M MONTENEGRO SKIES July 10, 2011 BIG BUSINESS came to Montenegro this weekend, lured by the £1m fortieth birthday celebrations for Nat Rothschild, the billionaire scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Peter Mandelson, Russian investor Oleg Deripaska and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich were among the 300 oligarchs and mining magnates who flew to “the St Tropez of the Adriatic” for the [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK July 10, 2011 FOUR Mayfair hedge fund managers hit the town last Tuesday to experience Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jr’s one-off champagne tasting menu at his new London restaurant Roux at The Landau. The seven-course, £225-a-head dinner – which included asparagus served with bone marrow crumb and roast guinea fowl supreme with creamed morels – was served with [...]
Boston’s calling July 10, 2011 CAPE ANN: SMALL-TOWN BEAUTY MANCHESTER-by-the Sea is a little town about 30 miles north of Boston. It’s got white picket fences, a harbour, a tiny train station, two ice cream shops and an old diner called the Coffee Cup that’s recently been bought by a plucky, Italian-American mother and daughter called Christine and Kathy DeSalvo, [...]
