Estates Gazette - Rural special - 27 July 2013

Two features coming up here:

The National Trust:  A look at the estates and management strategy.

Rural buildings: The government recently relaxed the rules on the conversion of rural buildings - but what difference will the change in policy make?

Comments and contacts from folk with relevant experience (please, no enquiries about windfarms - this really, truly, isn't about wind farms) by 8 July, latest, please.

The picture comes from the splendid Age of Uncertainty blog.

Estates Gazette - Leisure Focus - 20 July 2013

Two features:

Pie in the sky: Hi-rise restaurant openings are on the up. But what are the pros and cons in establishing and running elevated eateries?

Pubs: Tim Martin of JD Wetherspoon wants a chain of pubs at service stations. A good or bad idea? And why have landlords traditionally shied away from pubs in not just service stations, but shopping centres and retail parks where there is an obvious concentration of potential customers. Would they really work in those locations anyway?  

Contacts and comments most welcome by 24th June, please.

Estates Gazette - North West Focus - 22nd June 2013

Two features:

1. So where do industrial/logistics operators go now that Omega is more or less full? Answers in an email, please.

2. HS2 was at first welcomed by the North West. Now an increasing number of business people aren't so sure it's a good idea - disruptive, expensive and likely to suck jobs and investment down to London. We ask the skeptics to explain - and test their answers.

Comment, contacts by 22nd May, please, at the latest.

Estates Gazette - Industrial Focus - 15 June 2013

Two features:

1. Speculative development. Someone has to be first re-starting speculative warehouse developments (suspended 2009). Prologis perhaps? Not Roxhill? We canvas the options - the maths - and the likely market response.

2. Why build in crowded beautiful Kent when you could build much cheaper in less crowded, less beautiful, Pays de Calais? We look at the bold ideas, now brewing, to site large distribution warehouses on the French side of le Manche.

Thoughts, comments, contacts from useful people by 22nd May latest, please.

Yorkshire Retail Property - Estates Gazette - 1 June 2013

A feature on the big retail issues in Leeds and Sheffield. Comment and relevant contacts by 6th April, please.

Estates Gazette forthcoming.....

If you have interests in

London embassy buildings

Edinburgh shopping centres or shopping streets

Irish property loans that have gone bad

...then do please get in touch pretty rapidly.

UPDATE 19 April: this means next week, latest.

Greater Manchester Business Week, 9th May 2013

Here's the synopsis for the MEN-Greater Manchester Business Week commercial property feature in May (9th):

* Trends for the year so far and prospects for the second-half

*  We look at the key developments - new build and refurbishment - in Greater Manchester's commercial property scene.

*  A special focus on retailing: with both King Street and the Avenue at Spinningfield apparently struggling, Rochdale's retail redevelopment a long way off, and Market Street looking tired, we ask: what does Manchester need to do to remain the North's top spot to shop?

Deadline for comment/contacts 29 April 2013