In August 2008 I was advising Lehman Brothers on plans to offload some surplus office space at its Canary Wharf European headquarters – and something was very wrong. The client, a global investment banking titan, seemed short of money. I had suggested a £100,000-£120,000 marketing budget to help Lehman fill these offices – a drop […]

Passing through the enormous, heavy wooden doors of Hide is to enter another world. Within months of opening, the new restaurant from Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous and Hedonism Wines is all anyone can talk about – and rightly so: it’s extraordinary. Sprawling over three floors, with a huge, Ygdrasil-like (and much Instagrammed) wooden staircase running […]

Michael Murray, married to Mike Ashley’s daughter Anna, is now his ‘head of elevation’ and a key player in House of Fraser’s future He’s only just become Sports Direct’s W1A-style “head of elevation”, but Michael Murray, the fiance of Mike Ashley’s daughter Anna, is likely to take another step up with the takeover of House […]

Higher value properties in London have begun to sell again after the Brexit referendum almost brought the market to a halt, Savills has said. The estate agency reported that sales of homes worth more than £20m had jumped 44pc this year as sellers began to lower their expectations on price. Its residential transactions fell 7pc […]

Study finds Hong Kong Central remained the most expensive office market in the world with London’s West End taking second place, according to CBRE’s annual Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs report. Nine of the top-10 most expensive locations are the same as last year, but London (City) returned after a brief hiatus, with overall prime […]

Plans for the overhaul of Olympia London Exhibition Centre by star designer Thomas Heatherwick have been revealed, as the area gets a £700m cash injection. The key features of the listed 130-year-old exhibition centre – the domed window and arched roof supported by ironwork – will not be affected by the refurbishment, which is being […]

Ian Scott International are very proud to announce that our clients’ Hedonism Wines, have unveiled their masterpiece restaurant at 85 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London called ‘HIDE’. We acquired the property for Hedonism, when it was three separate premises. Ian Scott also successfully acquired headquarters offices for Hide at 81 Piccadilly. Planning permission was then achieved to […]

Ballymore, one of the Irish developers at the centre of the “Celtic tiger” property boom and bust, is seeking an investor to back it with £150m for its first foray into the burgeoning build-to-rent sector. The company, along with its Singaporean development partner Oxley Holdings, is looking for an investment partner to build 272 rented […]

Acting for the Tenant, ISI have negotiated a nominal sub 3% increase on an office rent review in Soho where originally the landlord was seeking a 33% uplift. Following settlement of the review the Tenant ( Rosario Cascio )  commented – ‘ I’d like to take the opportunity to thank you for the work that […]

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