Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has acquired more than 150 acres of land at Emersons Green, near Bristol, to develop about 2,000 homes and employment land over the next 10 years. The acquisition is one of the largest land transactions in the region in recent years. Taylor Wimpey bought the land...
The Bristol offices of property consultants Alder King and Hartnell Taylor Cook have been appointed to market Almondsbury Business Centre, the nine-building business park close to the M4/M5 interchange in North Bristol. The centre, pictured, part of the iO AM portfolio and managed by Caisson Investment Management, has recently...
An investment property in Clifton’s historic Royal York Crescent has been sold successfully at a Bristol auction after failing to find a buyer at a similar sale in London. The one-bedroom flat sold by Auction House (West of England), whose special experience and knowledge of the local property market...
West entrepreneur and founder of the iconic Mulberry brand Roger Saul is taking on the restaurant world this week, adding a unique movie set inspired ‘pop-up’ restaurant as the latest attraction to his Kilver Court designer village in Shepton Mallet. Using quirky props and lighting to recreate the feel...
GVA Health, the Bristol-based specialist healthcare team at independent property adviser GVA, has had its expertise within the primary care sector recognised with a major industry award. Senior director Richard Taylor, who heads the primary care team with fellow director Tim Scruton, picked up the Property Adviser of the...
Insurance firm April UK, one of the country’s leading providers of income protection and health policies, has opened its new headquarters at Almondsbury Business Centre, North Bristol. The company has taken the ground and first floors, equivalent to 5,544 sq ft, at one of the centre’s office buildings, which...
A group of commercial properties in Bristol has cut to zero the amount of rubbish they send to landfill thanks to an innovative waste management scheme. The programme has been pioneered by property managers in the Bristol office of Colliers International working closely with waste handling experts Saica Natur....
Bristol-based has completed its latest project for Oxford Brookes University – a £15m accommodation scheme at the university’s Harcourt Hill Campus. The scheme has created two large blocks, providing 318 en-suite rooms with shared kitchens and double bed studio rooms. The development includes separate common rooms for under and...
Bristol-based building products supplier Burdens is to sell 22 of its 50 branches to rival Wolseley UK for £30m. Around 600 of Burdens’ employees will transfer to Wolseley UK, which is retaining the Burdens brand name and will run the branches as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Emersons Green-based Burdens, which...
Property advisors GVA have appointed Tim Scruton to the role of regional head of building for the South West and South Wales region. Tim, a director in the firm and a qualified chartered surveyor, has previously led GVA’s specialist primary healthcare building team and will now absorb this into...
Government plans to postpone business rates revaluations have been slammed as an “underhand tactic” to rake in even more cash from already-squeezed businesses, according to a senior Bristol property figure. The proposals, announced last week, have also been described as a bombshell by Martin Davenport, partner in charge of...
Bristol’s Imperial Retail Park has been bought by property developer Hammerson as part of a £254.5m package of four shopping centres acquired from The Junction Unit Trust. The 32,000m2 (340,000ft²) scheme in Hartcliffe is anchored by a 10,000m2 (105,000 sq ft) B&Q, and includes Next, Boots, HomeSense, Pizza Hut...
Surveyor Mark Kelly has joined commercial property specialists Colliers International to strengthen its investment property management (IPM) team in Bristol. Originally from Nailsea, Mark has spent the past four years with Bristol chartered surveyors Hartnell Taylor Cook. He has experience of working for a wide variety of property experts...
