Bristol & Bath Science Park is to compete in the British Council for Offices (BCO) National Awards after being named the South West’s Best Commercial Workplace in the regional heats. The awards showcase buildings that are high quality, flexible, efficient and sustainable, as well as being effective workplaces and...
Bristol’s Architecture Centre is relaunched this evening following a major revamp and the arrival of a new programme manager and centre manager. Among a new raft of initiatives at the centre, which champions better buildings and places for people in and around Bristol, is a Business Associates scheme which...
Invoice finance specialist Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has promoted its South West business director Terry Wolfendale to regional managing director. Terry, who has more than 14 years’ experience in the UK financial services sector, joined BFS in 2010 and has played a key role in its growth and development...
The restoration of Tyntesfield House at Wraxall has been named South West Project of the Year in an awards scheme that champions the best architectural schemes in the region. The National Trust-owned Grade-1 listed gothic-style Victorian country house also scooped the Building Conservation category in the Royal Institution of Chartered...
The Bristol office of property consultants Alder King has let two buildings on Cheltenham Road in the city to the nearby Colston’s Girls’ School. The all-girl academy will use the properties, which together make up 174 Cheltenham Road, for additional teaching space as it continues to expand. A modern...
UNITE, the UK’s largest developer and manager of student accommodation, has secured a £121m, 10-year debt facility with Legal & General. With headroom in its other existing facilities, the loan allows the Bristol-based group to pay down its remaining facilities that mature next year, extending its next refinancing event...
A two-storey office building in North Bristol has been let within five weeks of becoming vacant – an unusually fast turnaround and a positive sign of the improving health of the commercial market in Bristol, according to agents Jones Lang LaSalle. They secured the letting with chartered tax advisers...
Chancellor George Osborne has officially launched Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, claiming it will help rebalance the economy away from the City of London and the South East. In a short speech this morning made in a ‘big top’ circus tent next to Temple Meads Station, the Chancellor said...
Chartered surveyors and property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall is to open an office in Bristol next month. The firm, which has its roots in the North of England, said the new office is part of a long-term strategy for national growth and will complement its bases in Leeds, Newcastle, Teesside,...
Positive signs are emerging from across the commercial property spectrum, business leaders were told at a recent breakfast staged by property agents Colliers International in Bristol. Speakers at the event gave overviews of specialist sectors including hotels, healthcare, caravan parks, licensed and leisure, and automotive and roadside. The briefing...
Leading local estate agency Connells has recorded significant improvements across the housing market in Bristol in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the same period last year. In the first three months of this year Connells’ six Bristol-based branches saw an almost 20 per cent increase in the...
Commercial property tenants have been warned to double check the small print on break clauses in their leases following a court case in Bristol which has left one firm more than £300,000 out of pocket. The High Court ruling was made in favour of landlords who challenged their tenant’s...
Developers of large warehouses – so-called big sheds – are starting to buy sites in the West, positioning themselves for an upturn in demand, according to commercial property advisors GVA. However, the firm’s annual Industrial Intelligence report warns that the region is facing a shortage of good quality accommodation because of the lack...
