They Come in the Night
Our Projects They Come In The Night A Market Story. The story of the Nottingham Wholesale Fruit & Veg Market 35% void rate Service charge rates higher than the rents Very low AWULT c. 1 year If you won a commercial property investment in a raffle and these were its investment credentials then it wouldn’t […]
The Cheltenham Fail
The world of commercial property Toxic debtFinancial crisisSubprime lendingGovernment bailoutsNegative equity Most of you will be old enough to remember these terms and phrases when it comes to commercial property. Some of you may still have nightmares about them. Lots of you will have lost sleep because of them. If you’re not old enough, then […]
How does Technology help the property industry?
How does technology help the property industry? One of my clients threw this into a conversation recently; for context the conversation was more about us having a good old grumble about why it seems harder than ever to get property deals done despite all the digital wizardry at our disposal. This got me thinking so […]
The Stampede of High Heels
For those of you with kids, you will all have been exposed to your school’s PTA, the ‘Parent Teacher Association’ who organise events for the benefit of the school. PTA’s are important because they try to bridge the gap between what the local authority actually pays to run the school and what it really needs […]
What is Property Drift?
Are the properties in your portfolio drifting? The last letting is done, the boards come down (eventually) and the estate looks great from all your repositioning efforts. Your focus turns elsewhere. At this point, many investors default to type and leave the estate to a standard property management appointment; this is fine but this does […]
EPC Ratings Matter
Don’t bury your head in the sand when it comes to EPC This isn’t just about landlords scrambling to meet new rules; it’s about collaboration. Tenants and landlords need to work together to secure compliance, and that’s exactly why we’re called YOKE (go on, Google it). MEES forces landlords and occupiers together to avoid the […]
Effective Asset Management
Are you struggling to make time for effective asset management? Time. There just isn’t enough of it. Even before MEES was a thing, our clients routinely complained that they didn’t have enough time to ‘do their asset management job.’ Invariably reporting requirements, internal processes, and high-level management & valuation commitments get in the way; and […]
The Haunting of Fishwick Street
Our Projects The Haunting of Fishwick Street A Property Exorcism. “You will never convince the girls who run this branch that it’s not haunted. Never!” The Fishwick Street clocktower is a legacy building from the days when workers literally ‘clocked in and clocked out’ of work. The lower parts of this prominent structure is now […]
The Tinsley Industrial Estate, Sheffield
Our Projects The Tinsley Industrial Estate, Sheffield Where the sun shines every day. The Tinsley Industrial Estate, Sheffield from Lyfe Studio Grandad used to say that ‘the sun only shines in Sheffield for 2 weeks of the year!’ This was a reference to ‘Sheffield fortnight’ when Sheffield closed down their steel mills and went on […]
Metro Park, Leeds
Our Projects Metro Park, Leeds Taking the bull by the horns Sometimes when people vacate a property, they just leave you with an almighty mess to sort out. This was the case at Metro Park. The mess here was a 50% void rate thanks to an administration meaning the FRI obligation had been lost. The […]
