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Birmingham’s Eleven Brindlyplace prime city centre office space has attracted the interest of a new client in the form of Robert Walters.

After welcoming business advisory and accountancy firm Friend LLP and the IoD (Institute of Directors West Midlands) to the building over the last several months, a new lease for 4,500 sq ft of Grade A shared office space was signed into for ten years by Robert Walters.

The new signing shows the prospects that can be offered by the Brindleyplace development as the recruitment firm already has 38 offices spread across 18 different countries.

The office space that is available across Eleven Brindleyplace offers stunning views of the city skyline in addition to offering flexible leases for office space that are designed to meet the business needs of those with 20 to 200 employees.

Also available for hire is Meetingspace which offers a large range of seminar suites and meeting rooms that can be hired for events and meetings saving businesses a large amount of money on overall property costs.

The demand for desk space in Birmingham has been on the increase since the beginning of the year, along with the region surrounding Birmingham in general. With increased take-up, enquiries, and workstation demand many investors now believe that the business area of the West Midlands is now starting to move forward past the recession.

In fact, enquiry levels are up by about 50%, new serviced office tenants have increased by about 13%, and the average price of a workstation weighs in at about £204.

The latest commercial hub called South Rings, placed at the crossing of 3 key roads is planning to increase its services. South Rings is thirty seven acres big and is a mixed-use facility with the Walton Fox Pub, Burger King, Holiday Inn, B&Q, offices and many other retail shops. Plenty of nearby and outside trades have indicated great interest in the hub so the builders are of the opinion that they should be housed there too.

Muse Developments director Darran Lawless stated that construction will start in the summer to build twenty three more workplaces which will create one hundred and fifty more careers. He believes that the hub has the prospect for more expansion to provide deskspace and great value surroundings for consumers and tenants.

He also said that Muse Developments is talking with quite a few trades looking for space as large as thirty thousand sq ft and development plans include child care facilities. He is of the opinion that it can give another thousand jobs and expansion for 5 more years.

UK’s biggest space management and construction firm, Places For People, have lately shifted to South Rings in a thirty six thousand sq ft space along with its entire working capacity of three hundred which has made Muse think of more business development. There is a hundred thousand sq ft of space to be utilised and Muse has already begun initial design authorization to expand in the rest of the area.

The new scheme at St. Paul’s square has entered its third phase of development and the English Cities Fund, the entity behind the project, has decided to complete it by mid 2011. Once completed, the redevelopment project will offer more than 110,000 sq ft of quality office space.

Since the UK market situation with respect to commercial properties has not settled down yet, people believed that the initial investment in the project has kept the project going, but the reality is that the fund members had to rope in extra funds towards completion.

The investors included English Cities Fund comprising of Legal & General, Muse Developments and the Homes and Communities Agency, as well as the Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Northwest European Regional Development Fund.

The Associate Director at Office Agency at DTZ, Chris Lloyd, pointed out that there could have been no better time for completion of this project, especially since it is going to be the sole one providing such quality shared office space in the area in two years’ time. This has boosted up the morale of the Liverpool office market. The initial rent starts to the tune of £22 per sq ft.

The plans for this area also include an office development of 228,000 sq ft as a joint venture between Ashley Moore and Desmond Wilson, which will again add to the available Grade A office space for Liverpool.

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Kings Place which boasts the Observer and Guardian as its tenants, has won the best price’s for commercial property developments, due to its eco friendly and innovative office space and venue development.

The building complex first opened in the end of 2008, and is found to the North of King’s Cross Station. It was recognised as ‘Best of the Best’ at the yearly awards ceremony held by the British Council of Offices. Additionally, it was named the best new commercial workplace in the UK, by the Council.

Judges referred to the complex as an important and outstanding property, due to its mixture of shared office space that is surrounded by visual arts and music venues. There is also a restaurant and café in the area as well.

John Forrester, the chair of the awards panel stated that there is always one building complex every decade that breaks the boundaries of what is expected in terms of building complexes, and that Kings Place is one of them. He went on to say that not only has Kings Place set a new benchmark, but it also has changed the way people live within London.

Kings Place is the first company to build a concert venue that is open to the public in 25 years, without public subsidy.