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Crescent House on the A6 is to be demolished and replaced with a modern teaching facility as part of the university and ECF’s ongoing efforts to expand and improve the campus.

Hawthorn Capital has bought the Sale-based residential agency for an undisclosed sum.

With a series of large-scale regeneration projects on the horizon, the local authority has partnered with Place North to ensure its initiatives get the international attention they deserve.

The council has been without a primary political figure since May 2026. With no end in sight to the current stalemate, the local authority has outlined how best to move forward.

The contractor-developer showed Place around its 19-home gated community in Tyldesley, walking us through the potential small- and medium-sized businesses have to address the housing crisis.

As it reported a record order book of £11.9bn, the Salford-headquartered company said it would streamline its operations to focus on its core infrastructure and construction business.

Paragon Property is awaiting the green light from the local authority for an apartment scheme off Chester Road.

Salford City Council’s 35,000 sq ft Charles House is to be pulled down as work to clear a chunk of the town centre for regeneration continues.

Carly Traverse has been promoted as the Altrincham firm continues to invest in its growing conveyancing team.

Three years after proposals for 109 apartments off London Road were first lodged by Kirkland Developments, the registered provider has bought the site and refreshed the plans.

The residential developer has acquired a plot off Worrall Street in Ordsall that the company is earmarking for redevelopment into 188 flats.

Contractor Holmpatrick received the go-ahead for its plans to tear down Britannia New Mill, replacing it with 32 social rent flats and 17 shared ownership houses – due to be managed by Onward Homes.

The Preston contractor is to deliver an £18m project that will provide a new home for Hope School & College.

Leaning into her 20 years of expertise in institutional real estate, former Columbia Threadneedle Investments senior asset manager Samantha Hadland has created AIRE.

The city council’s executive will be asked to sign off the compulsory purchase of a single derelict residential property, opening up the development of 212 homes by Mosscare St Vincent’s.

Delegates at Place North West’s sold-out conference heard from the newly elected mayor on how she is targeting a decade of growth, the impact of the new NPPF on development in the city region, and how the pioneering £2bn Good Growth Fund is unlocking development in a constrained market.

Unable to avoid Green Belt release, the latest version of the spatial development framework for the borough looks to enable the delivery of 24, 253 homes – well short of the 32,317 identified as its overall housing need.

The financial ratings firm has more than doubled its presence at Seneca Property’s 55 Princess Street to 9,000 sq ft, as the landlord completes a refurbishment programme.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham once described Stockport as “a genuine trailblazer for the mayoral development corporation model.” Now, the man who established and led the MDC is turning his attention to the Midlands, with ambitions to build 20,000 homes and create 50,000 jobs on a mammoth 1,040-acre area.