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The number of new businesses entering serviced office space in Greater London increased during the opening month of 2011, with an 85% increase in January 2011 compared to January 2010 being recorded by officebroker.com.

£10.5m will be spent creating a new headquarters for the Wyre Forest District Council, with the consolidation of the councils existing office space into a single location expected to create a saving of £500,000.

Romeo - a 6 month-old fox cub - has been living the high life for the past two weeks after getting stranded on the top floor of The Shard, Europe's tallest skyscraper.

The Reuben brothers' initial design plans to build three residential and office towers in Paddington have been given planning consent by Westminster Council.

Meet the officebroker.com team - and your Account Manager...

Good working relationships and communication are essential. But as a broker, we spend most of our time on the phone which means we rarely get the chance to meet our office providers face-to-face, or even put a face to a name.

So to help you get to know the real officebroker.com, we have put together this 2-minute video to introduce the entire team.

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Following the success of our Serviced Office Review series, we are launching a new range of reports that focus on key city centre locations throughout the UK.

A survey of 500 UK executives by Barclays has revealed that only 41% of small businesses in the UK plan to create new job opportunities in 2011, with the return of sales led growth seen as a forerunner to any future job creation.

In many areas across the UK however, the opening month of 2011 has seen businesses with larger office space requirements flood the market – suggesting that while businesses are showing a lack of enthusiasm on paper, the reality is that many businesses are accommodating, or preparing to accommodate a greater number of employees.

A business centre offering flexible office space in Cardiff has been highly commended by clients, who have supplied glowing feedback of their tenancy in the Grade II listed building.

On Saturday 19th February members of the officebroker.com team went a little bit Rambo, gearing themselves up for a day of paintballing and team building at Europe’s biggest paintball venue.

Manchester's historic 19th century Royal Eye Hospital is set to undergo a £21m redevelopment to transform it into a leading research centre, following planning consent from Manchester City Council.

Peel Holdings, the developer behind such high-profile schemes as MediaCityUK, continues to face objections from conservation groups and local residents over its plans to regenerate parts of the Liverpool waterfront.

The £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme covers an area of dockland stretching from Bath Street to Blackstone Street, and aims to introduce high-rise buildings for office space, retail use, and to create up to 14,000 apartments.

Global internet search and technology giant Google has agreed to buy a new office in Dublin for €99.9m - equivalent to approximately £84m - in the city's Grand Canal Dock district.

If you're looking for an office building with a waterfront location, then you can't get much closer than Hays Lane business centre in Southwark. Based in a converted Grade II listed Victorian warehouse just a stone's throw from London Bridge, this business centre is bang on the waterfront with superb views across the Thames.

Workers in office space across the world can lead an inactive existence, with the biggest exertion often being the trip to the kettle or to the overloaded fridge to collect their lunch.

But for all the international office space potatoes out there - help is at hand, with a group of American scientists suggesting that employers should introduce portable pedal machines to help boost the health of their desk-chained workforce.

We speak to David Todd, Chairman of serviced office provider Landmark plc, to learn more about their new business centre in The City's tallest property, Heron Tower.

Read the press release in full here: Landmark Launches in Heron Tower.

The first two regional meetings of the Business Centre Association (bca) have now taken place, with officebroker.com in attendance at both Manchester and Birmingham as representatives of the UK’s serviced office space community came together to discuss the state of the industry and what they believe awaits it during the next 12 months.

Part of Goldman Sachs' Fleet Street office in The City, which provides the base for their regional headquarters, is up for sale with a price tag of £300m.

Office space provider i2 Office have announced they will continue to expand during 2011, with support services provider OCS and the financial services company Hampden Group opting to invest in the hi-tech serviced office space provider.

With the invent of smartphones, laptops and electronic storage, many standard supplies are losing popularity with office space tenants - and some are heading for extinction altogether.

Serviced office provider Business Environment (BE) has discovered that IT workers are most likely to have an office romance, according to a recent survey of 3,000 respondents.

Planning permission for a new 115,000 sq ft 7-storey office property has been approved for the west end of Leeds.

Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, confirmed his support for the redevelopment plans of Battersea Power Station this week.

The move secures another important stage in the process of the long-awaited regeneration project, which has suffered major setbacks and funding problems.

Serviced office provider i2 Office, which currently operates four business centres throughout the UK, has appointed a new General Manager for their Glasgow office on West Regent Street.

Birmingham Science Park Aston is at the heart of a global link-up that is being introduced through Cisco, as part of the government's 5-year British Innovation Gateway (BIG) scheme.

officebroker.com has been given a resounding ‘Thumbs Up’ from the office space providers that it works alongside, with a survey revealing that eight out of ten UK business centres had found more than half of their clients via the officebroker.com service during 2010.

Wakefield's first ever indoor football centre has just been launched, located at the Bizspace Business Park at Thorne Mills.

Manchester United have done little to dent their reputation for attracting more supporters from London than Manchester, by taking 11,500 sq ft of luxurious office space in Mayfair - one of the most expensive and prestigious locations in London's West End.

The amount of desk space required by Businesses in the West Midlands has increased, with new research showing that the average number of desks being taken by businesses entering the regions serviced office space increased during Q4 10.

Demand for Avanta's meeting room product was so high in 2010 that the firm are now preparing for huge take-up figures this year, according to a new report.

York Handmade, an Alne-based firm established in 1988, will supply 70,000 bricks for the Shard in Central London, and has also been contracted to supply materials for the adjacent London Bridge Place development.

Research from property firm Driver Jonas Deloitte (DJD) has revealed that the rental value of office space in the majority of the UK’s regional cities decreased in 2010, with only the office markets of Central London and Manchester bucking the trend.

A £250m mixed-use scheme is being planned for a 2.9 acre site in London Vauxhall, by developers CLS Holdings, which will include 200,000 sq ft of office space along with homes, leisure facilities and a new public square.

Birmingham City Council's initiative to save up to £100m on running costs, which includes replacing 55 old buildings with 8 efficient purpose-built offices, has been praised by the Government as an example for others to follow.

Scotland recorded an increase in the number of new businesses entering its serviced office space during the final quarter of 2010, positioning it ahead of Central London and the remainder of the UK.

A business centre in Barry, located a few miles south-west of Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, has received glowing feedback from one of its tenants in the form of an online review, submitted via the officebroker.com website.

The number of businesses enquiring about serviced office space across the South East has increased by 40% during 2010. But despite the increased levels of interest, 10% fewer businesses have completed the move into serviced offices during this period according to new research published today.

Following the announcement in November that David Cameron is pushing for East London to become a new 'Tech City', the PM's plans are moving closer to fruition with the announcement that Cisco has pledged to invest over £310m into the project.

The price of office space in Central London will show “continued strong growth” in the next two years according to commercial agent Knight Frank, with the imbalance between demand and the supply of quality office space helping to drive office prices onward and upward.

Warrington may not be the home of the US President, nor the workplace of government officials. But it has its own answer to Washington DC in the form of The White House; a superb 18th century office property that could easily rival its namesake in terms of prestige and character.

Business consultancy firm Deloitte has signed up for serviced office space at High Holborn business centre, one of Orega's newest office locations, for a total of 150 workstations.

Deloitte have taken two floors of the business centre, totalling 9,000 sq ft, with the first 50 people moving in during the January, and more employees set to join their colleagues in February.

Workstation prices in the North West’s Serviced Offices have remained on-par with 2009 prices during 2010, but remain well behind the peak prices of 2008 according to research from serviced office space broker officebroker.com.

The world of celebrity is big business, but is the seemingly insatiable hunger for celeb gossip and other such nonsense (a purely personal opinion) generating too much hot air and not enough hard work in offices up and down the UK? Or can taking two minutes to discuss the latest antics of Cheryl Cole and Katie Price from the covers of Heat Magazine actually be a positive thing?

Catch up on all the serviced office news and views in January 2010, from the officebroker.com blog. If you have any news or press releases that you want to share with us, please send your stories to news@officebroker.com.