Mixed fortunes across the Yorkshire office property market

BNP Paribas are reporting that the office marketplace in Leeds is on the rise again. By contrast, Sheffield occupier demand continues to slip back despite prime rents remaining at around £19.50/sq.ft, substantially below Leeds’s £25/sq.ft.
We’re going to need a bigger data centre

We’re going to need a bigger data centre

Ed Goring passed on an amazing set of statistics a few days ago in relation to our data centre project. The rise of Big Data is predicted to see data centre capacity to undergo massive growth over the next few years, from 0.79 zetabytes of data in 2009 to 35 zetabytes...
Cut price tendering

Cut price tendering

The University of Sheffield’s scheme for it’s new Engineering Faculty is in the news again, but this time not for the planning issues raised by the proposed listed building demolition – that issue still rumbling on with talk of legal action to...
Why property and construction matters on Budget Day

Why property and construction matters on Budget Day

Wednesday is Budget Day. Chancellor George Osborne will take to the dispatch box to delight or disappoint, depending on what vested interests you happen to have this year. What does seem agreed upon among the financial experts is that it will be a moderate budget...
Demolishing Jessop’s

Demolishing Jessop’s

Two days ago, Sheffield City Council voted to confirm an extraordinary decision to demolish a Grade 2 listed building – the remains of the 1902 portion of the Jessop Hospital for Women in Sheffield. The reason for the vote was that in December they took the same...