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Business continues to outperform says St Modwen

The listed company behind the £70 million regeneration of Longbridge has announced a confident interim trading update.Read

Opportunities abound according to new property report

The opportunities are out there if you know how to find them is the message from a new report by one of the city’s major property companies.Read

£4 million grant kick-starts next phase of Park Central

Building work is set to start on the latest phase of one of Birmingham’s biggest urban regeneration schemes following a £3.96 million Government grant. Read

Midland firm IM Properties doubles profits

A Midland property company founded by one of the richest men in the region has more than doubled its pre-tax profits.Read

In-built snobbery holds back property progress

Professor Ruth Reed, the first female president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, believes that snobbery needs to be replaced with ambition within our education system if more women are to be encouraged into propertyRead

LEP funding boost for redundant site projects

Two business expansion projects in Shropshire are to benefit from a £63,000 boost from a fund created to breathe new life into redundant buildings.Read

Green belt land 'in firing line' as firms seek housing plots

Green belt land around Sutton Coldfield and in the Redditch and Bromsgrove areas could be in the firing line to meet demand for new homes, according to a city planning expert.Read

Other UK business news

German packaging form set to create 100 new jobs

A German food packaging company is set to create up to 100 Midland jobs with the opening of an £8 million warehouse.Read

The office layout dictates how we go about the job

We may be changing the way we work but the office will remain the heartbeat of a business according to GVA’s Charles ToogoodRead

Plans coming together nicely for a new future for Eastside

Nikal’s John Mofatt looks back at the last 12 months in the life of Birmingham’s EastsideRead

Rodgers Leask lands engineering role in £15m Cannock scheme

Rodgers Leask has been appointed as civil and structural engineers for a £15 million new parcels sorting facility being developed in Staffordshire.Read

£54m deal struck for Sheldon supermarket

GVA has completed the sale of a new 105,977 sq ft Morrisons supermarket in Birmingham for £54 million.Read

Cameron oversees work at Birmingham construction college

Prime Minister David Cameron has paid a visit to a Birmingham college aiming to help kickstart the flagging construction sector.Read

Sharp rise in out-of-town take-up as Birmingham sees fall

Birmingham saw a 500 per cent rise in out-of-town office take-up in the first six months of this year compared to the second half of 2011, according to a new commercial property report.Read

Shaylor aims at £10m target

West Midlands contracting group Shaylor is on course to complete more than £10 million of education projects before the new academic year begins this month.Read

ABC Nursery work completed

A £1.8 million childcare centre at Wolverhampton Business Park has been completed.Read

Work starts on Sparkbrook church seven years in waiting

A ground-breaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of work on a new Sparkbrook Church which replaces one seriously damaged in the tornado of 2005.Read

Kevin McCloud praises grand design of Paradise Circus plan

TV’s most high profile property expert has claimed Birmingham could catch up with more celebrated European cities if ambitious plans to transform Paradise Circus are pulled off.Read

Colmore district letting boost for city office sector

The disappointing year so far in Birmingham’s office market have been boosted by a major letting in the heart of Colmore Business District.Read

Artist's impression for the tower block at Birmingham Central Fire Station

Low rise solution to Birmingham Central Fire Station plans

Unpopular plans for a ‘tombstone’ like tower rising above Birmingham’s historic Central Fire Station have been scrapped and replaced with a much smaller design.Read