Hot Property
Will Mooney, Partner at leading consultant Carter Jonas, gives his take on issues in the commercial property world.
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The spectre at the feast
A year ago I was anticipating the end of the central banks’ monetary stimulus for their economies. In the case of the Bank of England, it was, at... Read More
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The bills and skills to make the builds
Setting aside the uncertainty of interest rate rises, what could severely hamper the speculative development all peer Cambridge agents are calling... Read More
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Down on the pharm-a
The sound of the “plink, plink Pfiz” echoes around the Cambridge commercial property market presently as the wider political debate hots up on the... Read More
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Cambridge springs eternal
It was neither a surprise nor an April fool to read on 01 April that once the devil of the detail of the Chancellor’s Budget statement in March had... Read More
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Magic numbers
Property agents regularly publish research and statistics in seeking to present a view – their view – of their market. We all compete for the... Read More
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Land ahoy!
Gone are the days when land availability is a matter of concern just for planners and developers in the business property sphere in and around... Read More
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Investors looking to back the right horse
The year has been heralded as one in which investor confidence in property will return in earnest. Rural property peers have pointed to the ‘froth’... Read More
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Trains and brains and planes
The year started and ended with think tanks – the Centre for Cities’s annual ‘Cities Outlook’ in January and, in November, Demos producing PwC’s ‘... Read More
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Peeling the onion
Using an onion as a metaphor for explaining the commercial property scene in and around Cambridge is becoming a default position of mine when... Read More
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Who’s afraid of HS2?
HS2 - the rail infrastructure project which will provide direct, high capacity, high speed links between London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.... Read More
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It’s been hot town summer in the city
There was no summer slouching on the development front in Cambridge. In fact, the locations of many of the buildings are contributing to... Read More
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Not quite a funding frenzy
Another month and another headline property deal struck in this region. The news that Tesco Pension Fund is backing developer Brookgate’s 65,000 sq... Read More
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Sights set on Cambridge sites
The headline property story of the summer so far is that, four months on from announcing it was relocating to Cambridge, AstraZeneca has chosen the... Read More