Affordable housing provider Knightstone has staged a topping-out ceremony at its head office in Weston-super-Mare as the 40,000 sq ft building nears completion. The state-of-the-art office on Weston’s Gateway Business, close to junction 21 of the M5, is being built by Dowlas UK and Midas Construction. The topping out...
Work is about to start on Bristol’s first speculative office development for four years – a £35m, 100,000 sq ft scheme in the city’s Enterprise Zone. Two Glass Wharf at Temple Quay is being developed by Salmon Harvester Properties, a joint venture between Salmon Developments and NFU Mutual. As...
The Chancellor’s surprise announcement to bring in the Help-to-Buy scheme was welcomed by the property and construction industries – with housebuilders in particular enjoying some rare good news. The property sector in the West picked up on some of the positives – but like most other industries, considered that...
Conveyancing firm Hoffman Male is to open an office in Bristol as it expands down the M4 from its Swindon heartland. The firm, established in Swindon since 1979, is to take space in serviced office firm Regus’ base at Aztec West. As well as conveyancing, Hoffman Male specialises in...
Business West has urged firms to get involved in the construction and operation of EDF's Hinkley C nuclear power plant. The massive scheme in Somerset received planning permission earlier this week – although EDF has not said it will go ahead and build the plant as it is still...
Bristol property developer Urbis has sold one of the city’s industrial landmarks, the Robinson Building in Bedminster, to social housing group Sovereign in a £6m deal. The former paper bag factory and printing works, built in 1870, and an adjacent former church have been converted into dozens of apartments....
Law firm Michelmores has appointed Tom Hyde as a partner in its national agricultural team based in its Bristol office. Tom, a qualified rural chartered surveyor, joins from Clarke Willmott and takes the number of partners at Michelmores to 53. He is recognised by the Chambers legal directory for...
Bristol-based national law firm TLT has advised investment boutique EV Capital on its purchase of a £12m South West property development deal. Dean Clarke House in Exeter has been converted into student accommodation in the form of loft-style apartments, together with a restaurant, social housing and commercial office units....
Four industrial and warehousing units at Severnside Trading Estate, Avonmouth, are being offered for sale – the only units of their type available on a freehold basis in Bristol. Landlord M7 Real Estate, represented by property agent Knight Frank and BNP Paribas, has put the units, ranging from 4,894...
David Wild of Savills in Clifton has been promoted to director. With more than 25 years spent working in the property sector, David, pictured, has worked across residential, new homes consultancy and development. He was drawn to Somerset from London in his early twenties and has since spent time working...
More than 100 jobs are being created at Yate Shopping Centre with the opening of three new retail units in the next few months. Within two weeks of the jobs being advertised on the shopping centre’s website and Facebook page, there were more than 3,500 inquires. Marks & Spencer...
The ground floor of an historic Bristol city centre building has been transformed thanks to the ambition and vision of businessman Steve Preston. Steve, founder and managing director of Heat Recruitment, has moved the firm’s 25-strong team into the newly fitted-out ground floor of Royal Talbot House in Victoria...
A scheme to transform an historic building at Bristol Temple Meads Station into a centre for world-class innovation has been given top-level backing. Bristol Mayor George Ferguson and University of Bristol vice chancellor Professor Eric Thomas signed a partnership agreement to redevelop Brunel’s iconic Engine Shed into an innovation...
