Property & Development
Browse the latest Construction & Real Estate news and stories in Oxford and across Oxfordshire, including stories about building, managing, developing or investing in Real Estate in Oxford and across Oxfordshire.
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Oxford in top 10 of global cities for life sciences, new report finds
While cities in the US claim the top five spots, Oxford at numbers 9, performs well in the analysis, especially given it’s comparatively smaller population and lower VC investment.
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Developers exchange on sale of Kingsgrove care home site
St. Modwen and Crabhill Developments announced the sale of the 1.1 acre plot consented for a care home at Kingsgrove, Wantage to Care UK for £2.75m.
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Harwell Campus expands to support strong life science sector
The campus is forging ahead with its 5m sq. ft masterplan to consolidate Harwell as one of the fastest-growing sites dedicated to science and technology in the UK.
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Plans submitted for two data centres on the Didcot power station site
The centres will be located at Didcot A – where the former combined coal and oil plant was situated before it was decommissioned and demolished.
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Oxfordshire sees record take-up of industrial space in 2020
Take up hit 1.6 million sq ft (148,644 sq m) and can be attributed to a significant increase in demand, from online retailers who accounted for 70% of all market transactions.
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Retail real estate resilience along M40 amid COVID-19 disruption
It follows White Commercial’s success in handling a spate of retail shop openings along the northern sector of the M40, despite disrupted trading conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Evotec expands again at Milton Park
Evotec’s latest expansion at 95 Park Drive, which totals 43,141 sq ft across three floors, is in addition to the 16,823 sq ft at 90 Park Drive it took in September 2020.
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Banbury’s former main Post Office building ‘Signed For’ redevelopment
White Commercial’s first retail transaction for 2021 has been the sale of the former main Post Office Building in Banbury.
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Rosalind Franklin Institute at Harwell Campus reaches key construction milestone
The £40m Hub building has reached practical completion, with the construction company Mace handing legal ownership to UK Research and Innovation.
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PM Boris Johnson opens new Oxford Biomedica’s Oxbox manufacturing facility
The new 84,000 sq ft manufacturing facility based in Oxford was originally built to service the company’s growing demand for lentiviral vectors.
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Businesses snap-up seven units at Axis J9 in Bicester
Axis J9 is the new distribution and manufacturing park in Bicester, Oxfordshire which will total around 500,000 sq ft when completed later in 2021.
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Custodian REIT acquires Willow Court on Minns Business Park
The 22,545 sq ft office building is located one mile west of Oxford city centre, and adjacent to the A34, which connects the M4 and M40.
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Proposal unveiled for 400 homes in Thornhill Park Development
The proposal includes 400 ‘dwellings’ in a mix of flats and houses, a new hotel and an innovation Centre on a site located between the Thornhill Park and Ride site and Risinghurst.
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£600k investment in M40 rural eco-office development now fully let
White Commercial Surveyors has successfully leased out all the office premises at the Courtyard Office Suites at Upper Aynho Grounds.
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Atkins and Faithful+Gould relocate office to Oxford city centre
This will see 60 architects, engineers, cost consultants and project managers move to a new home at ‘One St Aldates’, part of the Town Hall building.
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Milton Park refreshes brand identity and launches new website
The brand refresh has resulted in refining its values to four: ‘welcoming’, ‘dynamic’, ‘vibrant’ and ‘proud’, and launching a new brand identity and website.