Fall and rise of property rents

COMMERCIAL property rents in the UK are set to slip back by 1.2 per cent this year, but will pick up to see a 0.5 per cent increase in 2004, say surveyors Jones Lang LaSalle.

BMW moves in

FOLLOWING the purchase of McArthur Parkes Building, on Waterloo Road, Stockport, property agents Roger Hannah & Co have now let out 1,020 sq m to BMW Benhams as a car preparation area.

Double winners

SURVEYORS DTZ Debenham Tie Leung have won both Office Agency Team of the Year and Professional Agency Team of the Year at a ceremony in London's West End. They were the only surveying firm to walk away with more than one award.

Cinema rating

ACTING on behalf of the Roxy cinema, Oldham, ep2's rating department has achieved a reduction in the cinema's rating assessment of no less than 40 per cent, a saving of '57,000. They cited a increase in competition and the M60 orbital motorway in their successful bid.

House is let

LLOYD House at Lloyd Street, Altrincham, has been let to Xanalys, say agents Lambert Smith Hampton. Tweet