This festive season, it’s not just high streets and shopping centres making merry to get visitors into the Christmas spirit. The evolution of ‘space as a service’ has seen the creation of vibrant commercial business spaces that foster and enhance a strong sense of community. So this Christmas, how can we make the lives of the people using our spaces on a daily basis easy, convenient and pleasant, while also providing moments that surprise and delight?

Creating a property portfolio is often about much more than money. For many people, it’s increasingly interwoven with long-term family plans, ethical priorities and a desire to enjoy and nurture the properties they buy. Mark Prentice, Head of Banking (Scotland), explores the current trends. Mark Prentice, Head of Banking, Scotland 

The Scotscape Smartscape team has been working with the David Brownlow Charitable Foundation to install this Smart Living Pillar at Twyford, also with the support and endorsement of Theresa May. Adapting our Living Wall system with our innovative team, the Smart Living Pillar has been created.

The celebrations started at Lancaster Court, with Silent Pool Gin visiting the centre to offer residents the chance to sample some of their finest gins! Residents were also able to make progress with their Christmas shopping at the event with plenty of gift sets and merchandise available to purchase. The event was hugely popular amongst our clients at Lancaster Court, and Silent Pool hosted a further two tasting events at our Basingstoke and Farnborough centres – which were also very well received!

Acting on behalf of Watkin Jones Group and McKay Securities, we have submitted a planning application for the mixed-use redevelopment of Crown Place, Woking. The scheme is designed by architects Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher.

Inventive ways to use bridging loans - here are a few recent creative cases we helped clients with:

The majority of newer businesses do not have the resources required to buy their business premises, meaning that renting is the only logical option. However, after several years of successful trading, it does sometimes make sense to consider buying business property rather than paying rent to a landlord every quarter.

Are you searching for a new headquarters for your business in the East Midlands area? The city of Derby should be front and centre as one of your first-choice locations. Derby is a city that has long held a proud tradition of manufacturing, primarily in the automotive and rail industries, with major corporations such as Rolls-Royce and Bombardier operating here. 

An ex-Harrods fashion manager has revealed how she ditched her London life and moved nearly two hundred miles north to build a £1.25m property empire

The Government has recently launched its most ambitious heritage preservation campaign for 40 years, designed to empower people to help protect local identity through the planning system.

A case study How can bridging finance unlock your funding?  One of the recent deals Krios Capital Partners worked can be used as a case study to demonstrate the merits of bridging finance

If you are planning an office move, before you make a final decision on the interiors of your new workspace, it’s important to recognise the influential role that colours can play in the wellbeing and productivity of your employees, whilst ensuring your workplace remains ‘on-brand’.