A large speculative industrial building and plots for the development of two more at B8 Hams Hall, near the southern end junction of the new M6 Toll, are generating keen interest from the distribution sector, says industrial agency CB Richard Ellis.

Occupier demand for commercial property hit a two-year high over the past six months as…

Equiton Industrial Partnership (EIP), the Limited Partnership joint venture between Brixton, the Equitable Life Assurance Society and Edger Investments (a wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential Assurance Company), has sold Units 9-13 Hambridge Lane, Newbur

Slough Estates has announced the first wave of lettings at its newly re-branded West London portfolio, ‘theLHR.com’. Six lettings have been completed totalling 2,511sq m of warehousing/manufacturing space.

Focus Logistics has selected Portsmouth for its new warehouse and distribution centre, which is one of the largest commercial lettings in the city for two years. Commercial property consultant Vail Williams and joint agent King Sturge have let unit 1 Inte

West Midlands-based developer Chase Midland is set to undertake one of the largest speculative industrial schemes to be started in the Coventry area within the foreseeable future.

Distribution companies are expected to flock to a new development on one of the South coast’s most prominent warehouse sites – Swift Distribution Park, which fronts the M27 and M271 at Nursling near Southampton.

The latest King Sturge survey of available industrial and distribution floorspace indicates that the recent increase in availability may be “finally at, or nearing its peak”.