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THIS SPORTING LIFE KING STURGE: 16TH up from 25th in 2005 Annual sales 97.5m[pounds sterling] Staff 1,140 Male:female ratio 55:45 Under-35s 56% Over-55s 5% Staff turnover 13% Earning 35,000[pounds sterling]+ [...]

NEXT THURSDAY, GROSVENOR IS TO ANNOUNCE a stream of lettings that will account for more than half of its 800m £ 1.6m sq ft (150,000 sq m) Liverpool One scheme. [...]

CHAMPAGNE AND BLACKBERRIES DON'T USUALLY GO together, but at this year's MIPIM, developers and agents will no doubt be mixing the two. As they sip (or gulp) their bubbly, many [...]

Central London Fringe benefits NEXT YEAR IS THE YEAR OF THE FRINGE IN LONDON. The availability of large sites means big floorplates will be on offer. Cheaper rents than central [...]

STANHOPE CHIEF EXECUTIVE DAVID CAMP LAUGHS hard at the suggestion that he and chairman Sir Stuart Lipton might, like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, have had a Granita restaurant-style pact. [...]

Plasma television screens have come to symbolise property advisers' new offices. Over the next six pages, Heather Greig-Smith sees whether their exodus from Hanover Square has been a success (p36-37), [...]

PUSH OPEN THE DOOR TO THE LORD DALES electrical shop in Hebden Bridge and you step back in time to a jumble of boxes and appliances packed ceiling high. A [...]

JUST AS RETAIL SALES ARE FALTERING, THE north-west is gearing up for a huge retail development boom. For some there will be rich pickings, while other developments will struggle to [...]

'The missing generation'--surveyors in their thirties and early forties--have never had it better, according to the sixth annual RICS and Macdonald & Company Salary and Benefits Survey. Sean McAllister examines [...]

CASINO OPERATORS HAVE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY over the past couple of years to pounce on the opportunities thrown up by the government's reform of gambling laws. They have been salivating [...]

THE WISDOM OF GATESHEAD COUNCIL'S ARTS AND CULTURE-BASED APPROACH to regeneration has become apparent in recent years as land values and investment in Newcastle's traditionally poor neighbour have rocketed. The [...]

CAN DEVELOPERS BE TRUSTED WITH COMPLEX regeneration schemes? This is the question that will be on the lips of many at next week's Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester. As 2,000 [...]

IT IS POURING WITH RAIN IN MANCHESTER city centre and mist is swirling round the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) tower, which is clad with photovoltaic cells. From the 22nd floor, [...]

On Friday 14 July the Bank of Japan raised the interest rate from 0% for the first time in nearly six years. It was a symbolic moment that signalled Japan's [...]

STUART FELL, CHAIRMAN OF WEST SANDWELL TOOL & Engineering Company, came to work one day to find travellers camped in his car park. They stoned his car and those of [...]

LAST SUMMER'S UPROAR OVER CLONE TOWN high streets and supermarkets destroying independent shopping seems to be having an effect on the corporate social responsibilities of retailers. In May, Asda launched [...]

Property Week's campaign to clean up residential state agency finishes today, and we will be sending your responses to Department of Trade and Industry minister Ian McCartney next week. To [...]

BLACKPOOL WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE END OF the year to find out whether it will become home to the UK's first 'supercasino'. While it is clear that the [...]

WHEN THE URBAN TASK FORCE WAS CONVENED BY John Prescott in 1998, regeneration was a niche market, mixed-use development a quirk, and the Sustainable Communities Plan not even a twinkle [...]

STEP OUT OF YOUR OFFICE IN DOUGLAS AND THE ocean is a stone's throw away. The smell of salt and seaweed hangs in the air and, as it gets dark, [...]

THE SUN SHONE ON MUNICH LAST WEEK. Investors, developers and agents filled the grassy courtyards at Expo Real and cut deals over litres of beer and Bavarian delicacies. The forecast [...]

GEORGE DOWNING OPENED A SNOOKER CLUB IN LIVERPOOL at the age of 17. When his partner bought him out, he turned to buying and refurbishing terraced houses. Fast forward 20 [...]

* You can join the debate on p38, as Steven Norris and Wyndham Thomas argue for and against a tax on development. IF THERE ARE SHIVERS RUNNING DOWN YOUR spine, [...]

DAVID ADAMSON LEANS BACK IN A COMFORTABLE CHAIR in his Trumpington Street office and recommends several books and papers that should be read on the subject of science parks. It [...]

'WHERE'S THE OXO TOWER? IT'S THE TALLEST building in London,' says a year 10 pupil confidently as he stands on the 50th floor of 1 Canada Square with 22 of [...]

IN THE LIGHT AND AIRY DEANSGATE QUAY OFFICES of Manchester's Ask Developments a new generation of developers is being groomed for success. Four men have been hand-picked by the firm's [...]

IN THE MARGINALE, A POPULAR OFFICE DESTINATION in Sao Paulo, there is a very large hole in the ground. The hole is opposite two prestigious shopping centres and is in [...]

STANDING ON THE ROOFTOP HELIPAD OF TORRE Almirante, Rio's newest office building, you have the perfect view of the city's famous skyline: Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Statue of Christ and [...]

'THERE ARE DEALERS OVER THERE CUTTING COKE,' says my guide sharply, his previously cheerful expression replaced by urgency. 'Don't take any pictures here.' I look over to where four sullen [...]

ARGENT'S NEW JOINT CHIEF EXECUTIVE DAVID Partridge has a series of project photographs in front of him, showing huge glass windows, exposed bricks and grade II-listed structures. The energy supply [...]

THERE AREN'T MANY PLACES WHERE ORIGINAL Lowry works sit cheek by jowl with gun dog trophies and a signed Michael Vaughan shirt but the Ethel Austin Properties office has all [...]

CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY IS A TOWN OF contradictions. On the one hand, this south Manchester suburb has a smart Croma restaurant, a row of boutique shops on Beech Road and stunning Victorian [...]

THERE WAS ANGER ACROSS THE NORTH-WEST WHEN BBC director-general, Mark Thompson last month threatened to scrap the corporation's planned move to Salford if it does not get the money asked [...]

IT IS THE DIVERSITY OF THE CO-OP GROUP'S portfolio that attracted Lynda Shillaw, who left BT in July, to join the group as director of property, replacing Bob Galley. There [...]

IT IS IRONIC THAT UNITY, LIVERPOOL'S SHINY NEW office development, finds itself competing with the city's long-vacant and grubby-looking Exchange Flags building for lettings. Unity had been touted as the [...]

PEEL DEVELOPMENTS HAS NEVER BEEN AFRAID to think big in its approach. But the owner of the Trafford Centre stunned the market when it revealed plans for Wirral Waters earlier [...]

ON BRITAIN'S HOTTEST-EVER SUMMER DAY, CANARY Riverside is teeming with people. The riverside cafes, restaurants and bars in the London Docklands scheme are full, office workers sit on the benches [...]

DEVELOPMENT IN TOKYO TAKES PLACE ON A GRAND scale. The annual supply of grade A offices is usually 4m-8m sq ft (371,609-743,218 sq m), and that is only counting buildings [...]

STANDING ON THE ROOF OF the seven-storey ProLogis Parc Yokohama in the throbbing heat of a humid Tokyo summer, you can see miles of urban sprawl in one direction and [...]

IN OLYMPICTERMS, BARCELONA WOULD GET THE gold medal for creating a lasting and successful legacy. The Spanish city won praise for its reinvention skills after using the 1992 games to [...]

FOR THE LAST YEAR THE BBC MOVE HAS BEEN HOT news in Greater Manchester and the subject of constant speculation. The shortlist of sites is down to two: Peel Development's [...]

STOCKPORT METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL'S hope of having the UK's largest artificial waterfall as the centrepiece of its new retail regeneration scheme is a far cry from the days when the [...]

VARIOUS ATTEMPTS AT 'STRATA-SELLING'--SELLING individual office floors on either a commonhold or long-leasehold basis--have been made in Manchester in the past. While there has been limited success in specific locations, [...]

WHEN MAGHULL DEVELOPMENTS PITCHED FOR a portfolio valued at more than 10m [pounds sterling] in Liverpool city centre from Liverpool John Moores University earlier this year, some members of the [...]

PEOPLE ENJOY WORKING FOR COMPANIES IN WHICH they have autonomy and where there is trust and flexibility. But in addition to the good, the property industry has more than its [...]

WHEN NEXT CLOSED ITS DOORS IN HOUNSLOW IN the early 1990s, a cheeky employee left a sign in the window saying it was going and never coming back. Fast forward [...]

JACKIE SADEK IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. A regeneration expert who specialises in bridging the gap between the public and private sectors, she is not afraid to bang [...]

'WE'LL BE DEAD BYTHE TIME THAT'S FINISHED,' jokes an elderly lady as she looks at the model for developer David McLean's retail scheme in St Austell. She may not be [...]

THE LARGEST OFFICE INVESTMENT DEAL IN Manchester this year was signed last month when Dutch property company Wereldhave bought the Towers Business Park for 83m £. The company bought the [...]

THIS WEEK LIVERPOOL-BASED DEVELOPER THE Beetham Organization submitted plans for a mixed-use tower that could cap off the renaissance at London's South Bank. The 500m £ glass tower will rise [...]