Roger Pearson | 27/05/2002 | 16:30
The Court of Appeal has ruled that payments of rent under a tenancy granted by the beneficial, rather than the legal, owner of land are not payments of “rent” within the meaning of the overriding interest provisions of para (g) of section 70(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925.
Leisure group De Vere today showed how trading conditions were continuing to improve after posting a spark in half-year sales. De Vere was already feeling the pinch of the global downturn when 11 September caused tourism and business travel to slump.
Manufacturers across the UK believe the worst of the recession is now behind them, research out today showed. According to the latest CBI/Business Strategies quarterly Regional Trends Survey, business confidence in most areas has risen for the first time in more than two years.
Roger Pearson | 01/05/2002 | 13:35
Mark Blunden, who sold collectors items in the Manchester Corn Exchange before the building was extensively damaged by the 1996 IRA bombing of the nearby Arndale Centre, has failed in his Appeal Court challenge to his landlords decision to terminate his lease as a result of the bombing.
Leisure Parcs says it will press ahead with plans for a Pharaohs Palace on the seafront at Blackpool after the Government unveiled its gaming White Paper.
Roger Pearson | 15/03/2002 | 12:30
Following a protracted dispute over a planned housing development in Lymm, the developer behind the scheme, Bryant Homes, has now suffered a further setback.
Roger Pearson | 12/03/2002 | 17:00
After winning planning approval for a housing development at Lymm, Cheshire, the scheme’s developers must now wait to see if court moves by Warrington council will succeed in blocking their plans.
Lucy Barnard | 26/02/2002 | 12:30
The global economic downturn has depressed prime office rents across the world, according to Insignia’s latest World Office Rents survey. Rents fell in most cities surveyed in the second half of 2001, as Europe and Asia followed North American office markets downwards.
David Thame | 13/02/2002 | 14:15
Manchester is facing “an unprecedented crisis” in its office market with a three-year supply famine looming, according to Dunlop Heywood Lorenz (DHL).
David Thame | 05/02/2002 | 14:40
Manchester-based Bruntwood Developments is to expand into national office outsourcing. The private property company, which already dominates the Manchester office market, is understood to have been in talks about a multi-million-pound contract to provide a nationwide outsourcing service.
