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Two schemes handed over by Opus

Opus Land has done ‘the double’ by completing, handing-over and selling two schemes within less than two months.Read

Building firm wins £600k office contract

Birmingham-based building services provider J S Wright has won a £600,000 contract to fit out 4,500 sq m of office and retail units for a new luxury apartment scheme in London.Read

Move for Olympic torch-making firm

Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has struck gold with the makers of the London 2012 Olympic Torch.Read

New Urban Land committee launched in Birmingham

Global think tank The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has launched its first regional committee in the UK in Birmingham.Read

£11.7m raised at Bigwood auction

CP Bigwood’s latest auction raised £11.7 million as a packed sales room generated lively bidding.Read

Hotel plan for Arena Central in Birmingham to be brought forward

Plans for a 300-bedroom hotel are likely to be brought forward in a fresh attempt to kick-start Birmingham’s £400 million Arena Central scheme. Read

Wolseley posts £328m profit after margins improve

Builders merchant Wolseley has returned to an annual profit after improving margins and seeing sales rise by three per cent.Read

Lettings increase across West Midlands business parks

The region’s out of town business parks have enjoyed a raft of new lettings as the market continues to pick up.Read

Gloomy prediction for UK shopping sites

The slowdown in UK shopping centre development is expected to worsen according to a new report.Read

Boom for Birmingham's office market with £260m invested

More than £260 million was invested in office space in Birmingham in the last quarter after a series of high-profile deals pushed spending up 18-fold on the previous three months.Read

Jones Lang LaSalle moves operations into King Sturge Birmingham office

The final part in the jigsaw in merging two of the biggest names in the property world has been completed in Birmingham with the two respective teams coming together under one roof. Read

Key Birmingham firms to work under one roof at Baskerville House

A trio of organisations with a crucial role to play in driving forward Birmingham’s economy have agreed to relocate under one roof in a bid to work more closely together.Read

High Court forces investors at The Cube in Birmingham to pay up

The owner of one of Birmingham’s most iconic buildings has won a legal battle with an investor who bought an apartment but then refused to complete after it lost value in the economic downturn.Read

Real Estate Investors completes £13m spending spree

Property firm Real Estate Investors has completed a £13 million spending spree on three properties – including a prominent Birmingham city centre office building.Read

US property giant Hines buys One Eleven Edmund Street in Birmingham

An American property giant that has already invested hundreds of millions of pounds into Birmingham has made a further foray into the city.Read

Grocer expands with new store in Edgbaston

An award-winning Birmingham grocer is expanding in Edgbaston with the opening of a new store.Read

Time called on Black Country pubs for auction

A host of Black Country pubs, where time has been called, go under the CP Bigwood hammer when their next sale takes place on September 22.Read

Major warehouse deal agreed

Property consultancies Lambert Smith Hampton and Cushman & Wakefield have let a major Birmingham warehouse in one of the biggest lettings of an existing warehouse in the city this year.Read

Spate of promotions for property agency GVA

GVA’s Birmingham office has strengthened its 360 strong team of property professionals with four associate promotions.Read

Tower block plans at Birmingham fire station face re-design

Architects are rethinking their plans to build a 30-storey tower block over Birmingham’s historic Central Fire Station in the wake of criticism from a major architectural watchdog.Read