LONDON-A combination of cheap money and a relatively strong economy makes London the most expensive city to live in Europe. Knight Frank publishes its world survey of home ownership.

LONDON-The Capability Green business park at Junction 10a of the M1 is to get a major new office development. Developers are Real Land and Earlplace

EDINBURGH-Ashfield Land has bought the 53,000-sf Brunswick Road industrial estate in the Scottish capital. The initial yield was just 4.1%.

LONDON-Quoted industrial property specialist Ashtenne Holdings has been busy buying a variety of investments, including car showroom sale-and-leasebacks and business centres.

LONDON-Who says the residential property market in London is in trouble? MWB has already unloaded 35% of the flats at one scheme in the Docklands - and they won't be ready for occupation until summer 2004.

LONDON-Sun Life Pension Management Limited has bought the long lease of Emerson Process Management's massive office and production facilities on Meridian Business Park, Leicester. Sun Life achieved a yield of 9.75%

MANCHESTER-The proposed 40,000-sf Empire Court warehouse complex on Trafford Park has been pre-let. MacFarland Group has acquired the facility for its national packaging operation.

LONDON-The letting of Unit B, De Montfort Business Park, Leicester, to HSBC Bank by Barclays Bank is one of the biggest deals of the last decade in the Leicester office market.