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Winning design picked for Gateway H...
Architects chosen to redevelop Seifert’s 60s icon
 
Profits boost for HSS Hire
Diverse client base sees tool hire firm chip away despite recession
 
Peel go for black gold
Peel Group director Owen Michaelson to “unlock” UK Coal
 
Ideas wanted for empty East Manches...
New Islington development team looking for short-term plans
Another Starbucks for Manchester ci...
Coffee chain opens for business at Piccadilly Place
 
Islington Wharf
Jill Burdett gets excited about the city's most affordable waterside address
 
Ancoats’ coolest event
Italian ices at Islington Wharf, Great Ancoats Street, on 24 July.
 
Manchester gets McLaren
Lynda Moyo meets the next best thing to Lewis Hamilton – his new car
Property success story celebrates
Manchester City Lettings matures aged one
 
Future City: Manchester tomorrow
Euan Kellie reveals the plans to transform a city – if the money’s there
 
Peeling a Cube in Ancoats
Peel Holdings are creating 108 new homes in Ancoats, including some for first time buyers
 
Tesco sells flat pack houses
They're only £9,999 and they'll earn you 19998 Clubcard Points
Has Manchester property market turn...
Number of registered purchasers, stock under offer, and available stock show significant increases year on yea...
 
More budget response from small bus...
And still comes, more fear, hope and restrained approval
 
The Heart of MediaCityUK
John Nuttall on how we built this City on Rock ‘n Roll (and Graphics, Gaming and Television)
 
Councils, underwear drawers and bac...
The Coalition miss opportunity to squash local snoops
Cottonworks, Bolton
Jill Burdett appreciates a PJ Livesey development that fits its skin perfectly
 
Manchester Architects rock it in Bl...
Manchester Architects rock it in Blackpool and burn it up in Yorkshire (so to speak)
 
The Sharp Project makes a point
The shipping container solution packs in ‘small, creative companies’
 
Terrace in a box
Energy House at Salford University hopes to avoid being hot air
 
Turn your spare room into cash
John Nuttall tries crashpadder.com and ends up convinced its a good idea
 
Lancashire County Cricket Club fina...
A bright red building but is it cricket?
 
Manchester's going Dutch
The Dutch are here to tell us they mean business
Yourshack for property and parties
New lettings business literally launches this weekend: get on board their barge
 
Get yourself some Wood
1906 Edgar Wood property for sale in Middleton – the earliest British Modernism for £300k minus a fiver
 
The politics of property
Nick Clegg may have won the TV debate but who will win the property vote?
 
MediaCityUK so far
Here's the progress of the city's recession busting development
City to get cleaner
Cityco washes whiter: more clean teams across the city
 
Sky lands in Stockport
Jobs boost as broadcasting giant announces plans to open call centre in town centre
 
International centre of hair testing
New laboratory in Blackley will test hair samples from around the world for drugs and alcohol
 
Hulme uni campus
From Crescents to the present – new MMU campus gets a £28.5m thumbs up
NEM celebrate a decade of regenerat...
Party at the monastery, here are the pics
 
New council homes
Work starts on first new council homes in over 20 years
 
BDP headquarters and Piccadilly Bas...
Phil Griffin appreciates the contribution a swathe of steel brings to a burgeoning city area
 
New Islington gets fat hand-out
Confidential eats chips, watches grown men splashing around and admires the flow of dosh to an unlikely marina
How clean is your house?
William Jordan, managing director of lettings agency Jordan’s, advises landlords on how to make properties mor...
 
Contest your business rates
Do you run a small firm? You have until March 31 to appeal against your business rates
 
Mortgage rescue in Manchester
Manchester City Council comes to the rescue with mortgage scheme
 
Millionaire in Manchester
Secret millionaire to speak at Forum of Private Business event
Free business seminar
Get free advice on health and safety, employment law and risk management
 
The Hive starts to buzz
Landmark building barges to completion in the Northern Quarter
 
Women attack tower for money
Birdhouse Fund benefits as Britain's tallest penthouse gets invaded by Women in Property
 
BMX indoor track breaks soil
Another Manchester First as world's first purpose indoor BMX cycling centre starts to grow
School on stilts rises
Irk Valley Community School in Lower Crumpsall will stand up for education
 
Vast new city centre development
The Star and Garter saved for the nation as plans are made for huge building project
 
Cool Offices: UKFast, City Tower
We start at the top seeking Manchester's coolest workplace: is your office better looking than this?
 
New police stations for £56m
Greater Manchester Police stations to get a multi-million pound makeover
Alderley Edge gets a luxury bungalow
Only in Cheshire would you find a two-storey bungalow, says John Nuttall
 
Big businesses praise Greater Manch...
Greater Manchester is a great place to do business, according to some of the biggest companies located here
 
Weather forecast: extra mist for Sa...
Greengate public realm scheme approved, here are some pics – let's get some swings and slides there instead
 
Launch of Piccadilly Place
Party at the Place: 675,000 sq ft development let's its hairdown
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