The recent sale of our final assets at Peterborough’s Werrington Centre marks an important milestone in the strategic repositioning of our property portfolio. The Acorn Business Centre and accompanying development land at the Werrington Centre has been sold to Knightsbridge Real Estate Asset Management, with Melbourne Holdings purchasing the office b...

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In its biggest deal to date, Howard Group has sold St John’s in Bedford, one of the region’s largest bulky goods retail parks and a long-standing asset of the company, to Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (SREIT) in a transaction worth £31.8m. The 130,000 sq ft estate, which opened as a retail park in 1989, is currently occupied by household name te...

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Howard Group has secured a significant letting to Screwfix on its Raynham Road Industrial Estate in Bishops Stortford. The leading hardware supplier has taken a 6,000 sq ft trade counter unit adjacent to Edmundson Electrical on the new, high quality estate. The lease was signed quickly and trading started in January. Michael Summers, Director, Property In...

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Howard Group is very pleased to announce that Biocair, the Cambridge-based global logistics specialist dedicated to the pharmaceutical, biotech and life science industries, is taking 11,500 sq ft of grade A office space at Iconix Park, Sawston. The healthcare experts have taken three quarters of the available space at Iconix 1, a two-storey, high specific...

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Two new major retailers have now started trading on St John’s Retail Park in Bedford which has also benefitted from a major facelift as part of a £2m revamp of the Park by owners the Howard Group. Newcomers to the Park are Hobbycraft and Wren Living. Hobbycraft, who are the largest arts and crafts retailer in the UK with 78 stores nationwide, has taken U...

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