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officebroker.com have added more serviced offices to their online database, located in Manchester city centre and the City of London. Take a look below for full details...

Serviced offices in Manchester, Swan Street

Serviced offices in the City, Fleet Street

Virtual offices are increasingly being used to establish a business in prime locations but without the overheads and with some great green credentials.

A serviced office property in Ellesmere Port, near Liverpool, is the first to reach the milestone of 5 reviews on the officebroker.com website.

The property has received an excellent level of feedback, with 4 reviews giving full marks and 1 review assigning 4 stars out of 5.

Topaz, a new business park in Bromsgrove which is due to be fully completed in August 2010, has signed its first occupiers.

A serviced office property in the City of London now benefits from an online video tour. Produced by officebroker.com in association with Vid-e-Pro, the videos are filmed on-site and then matched with a carefully prepared voiceover, that highlights all the key features of the building.

Office space expert and co-founder of serviced office space and property search website officebroker.com has been offering advice and insight to the Alliance Business Centres Network (ABCN).

A serviced office property in the centre of Milton Keynes, based on Avebury Boulevard, now has an online video tour to complement its listing on the officebroker.com website.

A group of Grade II* and Grade II listed buildings in Leeds , known as the Tower Works, are set to be transformed into a £20m mixed-use site that will include business and office space.

Development group, Peel Holdings, who have previously created commercial property in Manchester, have secured preliminary planning permission for a new large-scale office scheme in Nottingham.

2,000 staff from the UK Border Agency are set to be brought together under one roof, with a much-publicised move into 220,000 sq ft of office space in Liverpool's commercial district.

The countdown to the Christmas Number One of 2009 has been dominated this year by a historic battle between a 17-year-old hit by US rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, and the debut single from winner of TV show The X Factor, Joe McElderry.

But how do you utilise the likes of Facebook and Twitter to market your business? We delve deeper into this in our latest SME article: The Morter effect - utilising the power of social media for your small business.

The acclaimed MediaCity development in Salford is set to receive another letting, as the City Council releases plans to open a Media Enterprise Centre (MEC) at the location.

An attractive Grade II listed office property near Macclesfield, based in the village of Bollington just north of the market town itself, has been transformed into modern serviced office space for businesses seeking a high quality workplace.

As part of our continued effort to make the online office search process as effective as it can be, here at officebroker.com we have just launched an exciting new addition to our website - customer reviews.

The Football Association yesterday announced the 12 successful host cities of England's 2018 World Cup bid. The cities named included Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, London, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield and Sunderland.

In an investigation by officebroker.com, Birmingham has proved to be the most popular location for small businesses seeking office space with just one workstation.

For more details on these findings visit our latest report: Birmingham top location for small firms seeking single office space.

A 19th century former factory in Nottingham is being restored to a new life as serviced offices, at the hands of husband and wife partnership Ashwan and Petra Chander.

officebroker.com have produced a video for a serviced office property based in Sunderland, at the Quay West Riverside Business Village.

It seems that many businesses are toning down their festive party plans this year. A common theme is cost-cutting, as the recession drags on and the credit crunch continues to bite. Some are shelving their plans amidst redundancies. Others face their busiest time at Christmas and choose to party in the New Year instead.

A third letting has been secured for central Birmingham's high profile office building, Colmore Plaza, as architect group Aedus take 5,000 sq ft of office space on the ground floor.

officebroker.com have added a further two serviced offices in Edinburgh to their online database, which are now available to view. Find out more below, or for more information, request a call-back from our team of regional consultants by submitting the enquiry form shown on the page.

BT have agreed to take space at a new £55 million office development in West Bromwich, in a move that is set to create up to 450 jobs in the area.

An office property in Maidenhead now benefits from an online video tour, produced by officebroker.com.

A Grade II listed building in Manchester, the former Royal Eye Hospital, is set to be redeveloped into workspace for bio and medical technology companies.

Owned by the NHS Trust, the property will become a centre for research and innovation and the initial contract has been valued at £15-25m. A global clinical trial company is already said to be keen on taking space at the property.

As the North West becomes the target for Government officials moving out of Whitehall, the Home Office has now reportedly taken office space at Warrington in a 25-year lease.

Three more serviced offices have been added to the officebroker.com website recently, all based in Greater London. Find out more below...

A new £100m Northwest Urban Investment Fund has been launched today, to help finance and support sustainable development in the region's urban areas.

The European Regional Development Fund and the Northwest Regional Development (NWDA) agency have each put £50m into the scheme, which will be managed by the European Investment Bank.

The ground engineering works for a new tram line have been laid on Princes Street in Edinburgh city centre, with the station located directly outside the entrance to Abbey Business Centre's serviced offices.

This impressive Grade II listed building based in Slough, home to a range of serviced offices, now benefits from an online video tour from officebroker.com.

Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Report has designated Greater Manchester as a Low Carbon Economic Area (LCEA). The status is designed to help build on the city's regeneration programme and its research capabilities in the low carbon property industry.

A £100m plan is set to bring office space to Manchester, in the nearby town of Wythenshawe. The scheme will also introduce a new bus station as part of a regeneration project in the district.

An office property in Canary Wharf, 5 Churchill Place, has been sold for £208m to a private investor based in Bermuda.

A new incubation centre at the Business and Technology Centre (BTC) in Stevenage opened last month. Said to be the only one of its kind in Hertfordshire, the centre assists start-up companies and provides a supportive environment for existing businesses.

Last week officebroker.com added a new office in Leeds to their online database - and as shown by the property's first client review, it's already proving a hit for businesses.

A serviced office provider with a successful property based in Gateshead, near Newcastle, has seen a surge in the amount of businesswomen taking space in their offices.

Lynn Gate currently has 30 different businesses at her serviced offices in Gateshead, of which more than a third are owned and managed by women. Two years ago, her tenants were all men.

A partnership has been struck between managed office space provider Orega, and serviced apartment company SACO, to bring a unique working and living solution to businesspeople in Manchester and Birmingham.

The arrangement sees both companies offering beneficial prices to customers who book both types of accommodation in those cities.

The masterplan to bring 5,000 civil servants to Manchester, known as the 'Whitehall of the North', has reached a vital stage in the planning process. The detailed proposals are being sent out to Council chiefs this week, ahead of a public consultation in the New Year.

officebroker.com have produced a video for a serviced office property in Glasgow, based in the heart of the city's business district. This video forms part of officebroker.com's continued move towards creating an overall more user-friendly website experience, as each one helps clients to obtain a more in-depth feel of the property prior to arranging a personal tour.

To view the video, or for further details about office space available at this property, visit the following page: Video of serviced offices in Glasgow, Blythswood Square.

This serviced office property in Knightsbridge, the former Basil Street Hotel, is an impressive Edwardian building with top-class serviced offices in a sought after Central London location.

Serviced offices in Knightsbridge, Basil Street

The US division of officebroker.com has shown impressive growth throughout the year, as reported in our study back in October: US Inquiries Show Excellent Growth Rate for officebroker.com.

To find out more about the performance of enquiries in New York, view our latest report: New York State Inquiries Show Strong Start to Q4.

The team at officebroker.com have been busy adding a fleet of serviced offices based in the Midlands to the online database, in locations ranging from Derby to Gloucester. Take a look at our latest additions below...

officebroker.com's video campaign continues with the production of an online tour for a serviced office in the City of London, Clerkenwell.

To find out more about this property and to watch the video in full, visit the following page: City office space, Clerkenwell, Bowling Green Lane.

officebroker.com has been charting the level of enquiries received for single workstation offices over the last few months, as a possible link with the publicised increase in start-up businesses throughout the UK.

For further details on officebroker.com’s findings, read the full report here: Single desk enquiries 37% up in 2009, despite slowdown in November.

On Friday (27th November) several representatives from officebroker.com attended the annual BCA Gala Dinner, held at the prestigious Park Lane Hotel.

The event proved to be the most successful to date, with an excellent turnout of almost 400 BCA members and serviced office industry representatives. This illustrates the growing success rate of the serviced office market, and highlights the resilience of the sector despite the difficult economy.

Chief Economist for HSBC Bank, Dennis Turner, attended the launch of Orega's new serviced offices in Colmore Row recently, in central Birmingham.

Find out more about Dennis' view on the economy in our coverage of his talk: The UK economy: "Bad next year, but not quite as bad".

Kean House, an office building in Covent Garden containing 26,000 sq ft of prime Grade A office space, has been sold by freeholder Terrace Hill Group for a reported sum of £16 million.

A derelict Victorian railway shed in Birkenhead is undergoing a high-class refurbishment project, to become Grade A office space spread across 20,000 sq ft.