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...Andrew McFarlane, head of the regions at Colliers, the property agents, said investors were attracted by government commitment to infrastructure such as HS2, a possible new transpennine fast railway line...
...The latest Birmingham crane survey by Deloitte, the consultancy, also shows a jump in hotel, leisure and retail developments....
...Half of this is in the City and surrounding areas such as Shoreditch, while just under a quarter is in the West End....
...Bath Riverside is a 2,000-home scheme — built in Bath stone in keeping with the rest of city — on a 44-acre site previously occupied by a crane manufacturer....
...Within Chichester Harbour in West Sussex, south-east England, there are popular sailing locations such as Bosham, Birdham and Itchenor....
...The rise was led by John Crane, which makes mechanical seals for use in pumps and compressors, where operating profits rose 15 per cent....
...Once upon a time, before the global financial crisis – as the modern-day fairy tale goes – cranes and cement mixers were a common sight on city skylines around the world as developers responded to rising...
...Manufactured in Sweden, each penthouse was lifted into position by a crane. The two-to-four-bedroom penthouses cost £750 per sq ft to manufacture and install....
...A mobile crane and a low loader, deployed at night, would do the trick. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...As titles go, “Manchester Crane Survey 2010” is not one to get the pulses racing....
...For the sector, age old concepts such as the conglomerate discount are now redundant....
...Richard Crane, entrepreneurial business partner at Deloitte, said many smaller UK businesses found it hard enough to expand into relatively close markets, such as western Europe and North America....
...It will have five-star hotel-style facilities such as a sauna, spa and wine room with private cellar....
...“What nobody seems to want to acknowledge is that there is only one way to stop a simultaneous system-wide run, and that is for the government to intervene,” says Peter Crane, president of Crane Data....
...The clusters of cranes hanging over the City of London are set to multiply as developers restart office building projects to meet what some predict will be an unprecedented surge in demand for space....
...But the consultancy said obstacles such as a lack of finance, planning tariffs and the changed viability of schemes drawn up in a hot market were too big to overcome in the short-term....
...A nearby property at New Crane Wharf was on the market since May last year, first at £560,000 – it is now under offer at £535,000....
...Other markets such as Canary Wharf, the Southbank and King’s Cross have seen no new commercial building in the past six months....
...Originally from Nottingham, he built up a successful crane hire business, Scott Greenham, which was sold to BET in 1987....
...If only people could set up home in a computer-generated image of a proposed development or bed down in a construction crane or a dredger....
...Berlin has several small beaches while provincial cities such as Cologne, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Toulouse and Bordeaux have got in on the act....
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