Estates Gazette - North West Focus - 22nd June 2013

Two features:

1. So where do industrial/logistics operators go now that Omega is more or less full? Answers in an email, please.

2. HS2 was at first welcomed by the North West. Now an increasing number of business people aren't so sure it's a good idea - disruptive, expensive and likely to suck jobs and investment down to London. We ask the skeptics to explain - and test their answers.

Comment, contacts by 22nd May, please, at the latest.

Estates Gazette - Industrial Focus - 15 June 2013

Two features:

1. Speculative development. Someone has to be first re-starting speculative warehouse developments (suspended 2009). Prologis perhaps? Not Roxhill? We canvas the options - the maths - and the likely market response.

2. Why build in crowded beautiful Kent when you could build much cheaper in less crowded, less beautiful, Pays de Calais? We look at the bold ideas, now brewing, to site large distribution warehouses on the French side of le Manche.

Thoughts, comments, contacts from useful people by 22nd May latest, please.

Yorkshire Retail Property - Estates Gazette - 1 June 2013

A feature on the big retail issues in Leeds and Sheffield. Comment and relevant contacts by 6th April, please.

Estates Gazette forthcoming.....

If you have interests in

London embassy buildings

Edinburgh shopping centres or shopping streets

Irish property loans that have gone bad

...then do please get in touch pretty rapidly.

UPDATE 19 April: this means next week, latest.

Greater Manchester Business Week, 9th May 2013

Here's the synopsis for the MEN-Greater Manchester Business Week commercial property feature in May (9th):

* Trends for the year so far and prospects for the second-half

*  We look at the key developments - new build and refurbishment - in Greater Manchester's commercial property scene.

*  A special focus on retailing: with both King Street and the Avenue at Spinningfield apparently struggling, Rochdale's retail redevelopment a long way off, and Market Street looking tired, we ask: what does Manchester need to do to remain the North's top spot to shop?

Deadline for comment/contacts 29 April 2013

Estates Gazette - Retail Supplement - 1 June 2013

Premium or not premium – in the US, there are several retailers not considered particularly premium brands. But, when they make the jump across the pond they take space in our premium sites. What is the thinking about the move and why? Think Abercrombie & Fitch, for instance, hence the over-developed boys on the right.... Apropos of which, see this peculiar story which makes you wonder: here
Comment/contracts by 17th April 2013, please 

Estates Gazette - Healthcare Focus - 18th May 2013

Transfer of NHS property – An examination of NHS Property Services - the company that looks after the health strategic assets not transferred to the new bodies, which begins in April 2013. What it will do, might do, and can do? Comment/contacts by 29th April, 2013, please.