Focus: West Midlands update

Pilkington, Lisa

Focus: West Midlands update - 2005 - Estates Gazette (548) 3 December 2005, 89-101(7) .

Covers the tough conditions in the regional retail market but highlights the opening of major new shopping centres in Coventry and Nuneaton. Looks at the Birmingham office market with its problems of short-term supply and present concentration on refurbishments and by contrast the M42 corridor where low demand and massive oversupply prevails. Reports on the healthy industrial market with fierce competition for sites, escalating land values and warnings of overheating.