LONDON-Office Take-up Improved Dramatically in September after a quiet summer, bolstering confidence in the London office market. Three big corporate deals helped boost the absorption figures.

LONDON-London is still the number one location for business in Europe, according to the 2001 European Cities Monitor survey from Healey & Baker. Paris and Frankfurt also scored highly with international businesses.

LONDON-London is still the number one location for business in Europe, according to the 2001 European Cities Monitor survey from Healey & Baker. Paris and Frankfurt also scored highly with international businesses.

LONDON-Following its relocation to the West End, industrial investor Brixton has sold its old headquarters at 22-24 Ely place, EC1 to an owner-occupier. The sale comnpletes its withdrawal from the office sector.

LEEDS-Tops Estates has bought out Rodamco's one-third stake in the Leeds Shopping Plaza Limited partnership, set up five years ago to refurbish and extend the Leeds city centre mall.

LONDON-IT company Novell has appointed DTZ and its US affiliate the Staubach Company to advise on the integration of its worldwide real estate portfolio with that of Cambridge Technology Partners, which it acquired earlier this year

BERLIN-Wal-Mart's UK-based property company Gazeley Properties has bought a 123-acre site near Berlin as the first step towards rolling out its Magna Park distribution park format across Europe.

LONDON-Management consultancy Accenture has ended its long search for a new London headquarters with the pre-letting of 375,000 sf at British Land's Plantation Place in the City.