All sorts at Trafford

MARSHALL Construction, subsidiary Commercial Development Projects, is to develop a nine-ha site at Ashburton Road West, Trafford Park.

The Liquorice Park scheme will include industrial and warehouse units. Completion date is September. Letting agents are DGI Davis George and Davies Harrison.


Housing `sound'

A MODEST increase in interest rates is unlikely to damage the UK property market, says surveyors Strutt & Parker. It won't make buyers at the top of the housing market re-think their plans, says the Chester consultancy.


Top for shops

MANCHESTER is the north's top retailing centre, researchers have claimed. It beat Newcastle, Nottingham, Birmingham and Leeds in a survey of shop managers in locations throughout the UK.


Glyn sale

CHESHIRE surveyors Fifield Glyn has sold a 5,570-sq m business centre at Billingham on behalf of clients Osborne House. The building was acquired for just under £2.5m by Northern Office Investments Ltd.


Tax seminar

A SEMINAR on the new stamp duty land tax, which became effective on December 1, has been organised by Manchester law firm Mace & Jones at the Midland Hotel on January 28. Tweet