LONDON-Workspace Group has bought the 64,560-sf Westbourne Studios complex of offices and workshops near Ladbroke Grove west London to add to its portfolio of small business units across London and the South east.

LONDON-PRICOA Property Investment Management, part of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, has sold suburban shopping mall in Bromley, South London, on behalf of the Hanover Property Unit Trust.

LONDON-The South Coast office market has received a boost with the letting of the 70,000-sf Forum One building on the Solent Business Park between Southampton and Portsmouth to business support group Amey.

JOHANNESBURG-Catalyst Holdings has launched a new South African property fund which will specialise in 'bare dominium' properties. These highly reversionary assets carry the prospect of strong capital growth.

LONDON-Industrial rents across the UK have held up despite the economic slowdown, according to new research from ATIS Real Weatheralls. A shortage of stock is helping to underpin rents.

GLASGOW-Taylor Woodrow Property Company has secured the Inland Revenue as a tenant for its 30,000-sf Silverburn House office development on the Almondvale Business Park in Livingston, Scotland, and it immediately sold the property to an offshore investor.

LONDON-Troubled North American fibre optics company, JDS Uniphase, has successfully exited its 46,000-sf facility at the Oxford Industrial Park through a lease assignment to laser microfabrication group Exitech.

LONDON-Troubled serviced office operator has announced a string of outsourcing deals in both Europe and the Americas as it attempts to exploit the growing trend towards corporate outsourcing.