BCM Real Estate have recently advised GWP on the purchase of Peregrine House, 26-30 Paradise Road, Richmond-Upon-Thames. This 11,000 sq ft office will be comprehensively refurbished with completion due in Q4 2024. It was a pleasure to work with Guy Wilson of GWP, BrayFoxSmith, the appointed letting agents on the scheme and Duncan MacLaren…
Thank you to hashtag#potterspace for a great afternoon at the UKWA Awards in London. Congratulations to all those who received awards. https://linktr.ee/ukwa is the trade association representing the UK warehousing sector. Strategist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell kept the room lively with his opinions and polled the floor for views on the new hashtag#government. Most…
Thank you Fraser Yarnold and to your client CCLA Investment Management for a smooth transaction. Great to work with XPROP again. I have a number of private client requirements still to satisfy this summer. Sector agnostic. Please email me at duncan@maclarenpartners.co.uk with any ideas. LinkedIn
An early start to attend a breakfast seminar this morning hosted by Turnstone Estates and Concilio at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. ‘The Cambridge Manifesto for the next Government’. I was excited to attend, and a lovely early summer morning too; my thanks to Tim Deacon The panel were very engaging, and it was a…
Special thanks to niche commercial property agent #EllisBrown, who hosted a wonderful day at hashtagYork races on Friday; they even booked the weather for their guests. Based in St. John Street, the practice has developed a leading market knowledge of hashtagCityfringe property, led by Chris Antoniou’s 30 years of experience. The best advice on…
This #weekendft covers the effect of rising mortgage rates on house building falls but barely mentions the catastrophic state of our planning system, which has led to at least one of my clients deciding that the risks of holding land and committing more money in pursuing SME house building business without clear Central Government…
Delighted to have worked with Adam Bullas MRICS on the now-completed sale of Brize Meadow Local Centre in Carterton, Oxfordshire. This is another first-class #localcentre #roadside development by our clients Gentian. The sale attracted considerable interest and was sold to a private investor client of #WarwickMartel. Thank you to Patrick Warwick-Smith for his efforts in…
John Plender, a financial journalist familiar to some in the commercial property market for his popular contributions to the industry’s principal data and intelligence platform #EstatesGazette over the decades, has written a brilliant summary and thought-provoking prognosis of the position central banks have played and the uncertainty of the direction of #monetarypolicy currently in…
We are delighted to have completed the biggest investment deal in our history by acquiring an opportunity on our doorstep. We have acquired The Shires Gate Trade Park in Tachbrook Park Drive, Leamington, which was previously owned by the Canal & River Trust, for an undisclosed seven-figure sum. The Shire Gate Trade Park comprises…