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The shelving of a £100,000 report on Reading town centre has been labelled a ‘complete and utter waste of ratepayers’ money’. Reading Borough Council commissioned consultants Urban Place Lab along with Vectos, Forty Group and WSP to produce its Town Centre Strategy in 2021. But after a draft was completed,...

As a firm that has benefitted from being part of the local business community for over 30 years, we like to use our expertise to give back to the community, however we can. Hicks Baker are therefore pleased to announce that they have become a LandAid Pro Bono Programme Partner,...

Hicks Baker has completed the acquisition of a new property for Quanta Dialysis Technologies, the award-winning company behind a revolutionary portable dialysis machine. Quanta will be transitioning its office headquarters to The Woods, Warwick Business Park, Haywood Road in Warwick. “We are thrilled to be relocating our corporate headquarters to The Woods.  The...

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FatFace had held a lease on the property on the ground and two upper floors for a number of years but had made it known that they would not be renewing their lease. Hicks Baker undertook to secure planning consent for the two upper floors to convert to residential and...

Reading based Stibo Systems are relocating to new offices following their acquisition of the 7th Floor at Abrdn’s One Valpy Street development in the town centre. Stibo will shortly move into 3,454 sq.ft of partially fitted space on the top floor of the building  overlooking Forbury Gardens and just minutes’...

Hicks Baker advised The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute on the property acquisition of a prime life science property in Oxford. The Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine strengthened its ongoing partnership with the University of Oxford and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change with the purchase of  life science property...

Hicks Baker are thrilled to be featured in the latest issue of The Business Magazine! Stephen Head, our Business Space Director, discusses working with our client, the Brooking Museum of Architectural Detail (Brooking) on the acquisition of their new premises in Whitchurch, Hampshire. “Whitchurch provides an enviable setting, more than...

The Business Magazine publish the Thames Valley SME 100 Growth Index Awards, which celebrates the impressive results of the region’s top 100 SMEs with turnover between £1m and £20m that have grown significantly in the past year. The 2021 awards ceremony took place on the 30th of September at the Lamborghini...

Fiona Brownfoot, Director at Hicks Baker, has reported a surge in Retail deals, with 22 being completed since March 2020 in Reading and Caversham. This is due to the rebasing of rents, more localised shopping and the greater availability of pre-fitted restaurants and retail units, as reported in further detail...

With Broad Street Mall having recently gone on the market as an investment opportunity, Fiona Brownfoot, Director at Hicks Baker, highlighted that this is an opportunity to reduce fragmentation of ownership: “One of the principal barriers to creating attractive environments, whether that’s to shop, live or play, is fragmentation of...