One in eight US property investors plans to buy in the UK.

Growth of the northern ports contributes to the growth of UK competitiveness as well as more sustainable patterns of distribution by bringing goods closer to their end destinations and avoiding long haul road and rail journeys from ports in the south,

Slough Estates, new owner of Heywood Distribution Park near Manchester, is to build speculatively there.

The Haven Gateway, which takes in Felixstowe and Harwich, moved a step closer to “Growth Point” status when the government said it was “minded to” approve an application by the Haven Gateway Partnership.

Four industrial agents are the lucky winners of a range of hi-tech prizes in a competition run by IM Properties as a marketing initiative for the Aspect Development at West Moor Park in Doncaster.

Brixton Estates has been on a buying spree. It has bought the British Airways Regional Cargo Building at Green Lane, Hounslow, and the Circle South Industrial Estate at Wharfside Way, Trafford Park, Manchester.

sbh.uk’s specialist warehouse and industrial rent review team has saved drinks giant Diageo more than £5m in rent over five years on a 350,000 sq ft former distribution centre.

Gazeley Properties attracted government high-flier David Miliband MP, the new secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, to its award-winning Voltaic warehouse development in Dagenham, East London.

Don-Bur has launched its new tri-axle 13.6m lifting deck trailer demonstrator, which it claims can save as much as £6,500 per annum in fuel costs.

M J Griffiths has taken delivery of two Ekeri side-loading trailers. Griffiths now has three Ekeri Side-Loading Reefers, one of which is the latest design with rounded front pillars and new centre pole.