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Marchmont Surveyors recently celebrated another successful year with a ski trip to Italy!

The continuing turmoil on the High Street has inevitably made retailers look closely at their store portfolios and in particular their non-profitable outlets.

I am sure I wasn't the only one to note with a slight nervousness the recent prognosis at MIPIM UK; that the role of the Agent in our market place was considered under threat.

Some 10 years have passed since laws came into effect banning smoking in virtually all enclosed public places in England. As a result, there are now 1.9 million fewer smokers in Britain compared with when the smoking ban was introduced - the lowest smoking rate ever recorded.

Most recently and in most standard High Street locations, Tenant break opportunities in leases have become a common occurrence, with new lease terms agreed at renewal usually based on a ten-year lease term with a break option for the Tenant at the anniversary of the fifth year.

Jeweller Boodles has had its rent almost doubled at its 178 New Bond Street flagship store following a rent review.

Marchmont were delighted to last week welcome Runnymede Borough Council (BC) as a brand new client.

On the 11th of June 2017, the Marchmont Surveyors team enjoyed a group bonding day at Chesteron's Polo in The Park.

Nothing reminds one of their age more so than a photo. As Marchmont celebrate 20 years in partnership, the founding partners celebrate more than a business relationship, but a friendship formed through working together over two decades.

Brook Street (UK) Limited was the tenant in this case, who occupied the ground floor of 108 Fenchurch Street in the City Of London. They occupied under a lease entered into in 2011 with the City of London Corporation for a term of ten years.

Marchmont are very pleased to announce that they advised the children's charity Barnardo's on their recent sale and leaseback portfolio deal, comprising of nine properties located across England, Scotland & Wales.

So much for doom and gloom over the Rates Revaluation!

Marchmont were very pleased to have helped their client Sally Salon Services last week to acquire a space in Liverpool One Shopping Centre for a unit set to open in January 2017.

Commercial property surveyor Marchmont has selected Propertyserve to deliver reactive works to its managed client portfolios.

Propertyserve has been chosen by specialist commercial property surveyors, Marchmont, to deliver reactive works to its managed client portfolios.

Marchmont are pleased to announce the completion of a large disposal for Accor Hotels in Docklands.

Marchmont have a growing market presence in the technology sector which is shown by their recent partnering with Teads.tv (Formerly E-Buzzing) on an acquisition of new space and disposal of their current office.

A record-breaking City rent of more than £100 per sq ft has been achieved at the Leadenhall Building, EC3.

Paul Wilkinson has been appointed as the 35th city surveyor by the City of London Corporation.

Rents in the UK prime commercial property sector rose by an average of 1.4% in the first quarter of this year, matching the level of growth recorded in Q4 2015, the latest figures show.

On Friday 11th March, the Marchmont team celebrated the end of a very successful year with a weekend away skiing in Les Gets, a popular resort in the French Alps.

Investment volumes in UK commercial property are set to exceed £70 billion in 2015, the highest on record, according to the latest research to be published.

In a statement on the 13th October 2015, Conservative Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis announced that they are to launch fresh measures to make it easier to convert disused office and light industrial space into new homes in order to support the UK housing shortage.

Amid a great migration online, a few e-retailers open real-world outpost.

Almost two-thirds of Londoners want to live in a first floor apartment - and the demand is pushing up the average price compared with the equivalent flats on different floors of the same building.

Marchmont Surveyors have project managed a low cost circa £40k refurbishment of one of their clients offices - whilst the office continued trading!

Marchmont have been doing their bit to get the Irish Economy up and running as they assist their client, Turas Nua opening their 8th office in Waterford, Eire.

Domino's continue their growth strategy in the UK with a recent outreach for commercial property space within the M25 combined with an incentive programme for property agents.

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 came into force on 15th April 2015.

Our corporate real estate team have secured another successful acquisition in Liverpool, completing the affluent move on behalf of an international client.

The dust has settled and following a huge amount of bad polls (none of which were correct) Ashley Miller takes an overview of the 2015 Election Results.

TRUSTED. At Marchmont we pride ourselves on the word "TRUST" and how this manifests itself in our day to day dealing with our clients.

Marchmont completed on the sale of a freehold property for William Hill in Balham, having successfully identified that the premises were a good candidate for conversion to residential.

Marchmont advised Ash Gaming, a Playtech Company, on the acquisition of 6,680sq.ft of Grade A office space on the fourth floor of 61 Southwark Street in London SE1.

Take-up in London topped 14 million sq ft in 2014 as occupier demand soared towards the end of the year in a thriving market. This increased letting activity, although welcome, throws up pertinent questions. Is the capital running out of available stock? And which sectors are accelerating the space race?