LONDON- Hunting Gate and Equitable Life have completed their letting programme at Centinal, the 40,325 sq ft office scheme at 46 Clarendon Road, Watford, Hertfordshire following lettings to Cadbury Schweppes and Finlower.

LEEDS-In one of the Yorkshire city's biggest-ever pre-lettings, serviced office provider Gainsborough Morrison has taken a 48,462 sq ft pre-let at phase II of Miller Gregory's Whitehall Place office scheme.

EDINBURGH-Redevco, the property company owned by the Dutch Brenninkmeyer family, whose C & A retail chain pulled out of the UK last year, has lodged a planning application for the redevelopment of the former C store on Edinburgh's Princes Street.

LONDON-Matrix Securities has set up a tax transparent limited partnership, registered in the Channel Island of Guernsey, to take over the ownership of Northgate House, MEPC's City office building at 20-28 Moorgate, London EC2.

LONDON-Office availability in the M25 markets rose slightly during the first quarter of 2001, according to the latest survey from Knight Frank.

LONDON- British Telecom is to quit its City of London headquarters following its decision to split into two separate companies.

LONDON-Orb Estates has sold 50% of the 105 apartments it is constructing on a waterfront site at Poole Quay in Dorset.

LONDON-Far from deterring businesses from locating in London, Mayor Ken Livingstone's proposed congestion charging might benefit the commercial property sector, a new report from Healey & Baker finds.