Northwich Vision manager joins Liverpool Land’s Speke team

Developer Charles Topham Group has started work on its 130,000 sq ft Axis Park development in Darwen, Blackburn.

Manchester has overtaken Birmingham in the 2007 UK Cities Monitor, the annual survey undertaken by property adviser Cushman & Wakefield.

The Government Office for the North West is close to taking 26,000 sq ft on two floors of Argent’s Three Piccadilly Place in Manchester city centre.

Planning consent has been given for developer Time and Tide’s 35-storey Gravity tower in Manchester, designed by Austin-Smith:Lord.

Manchester-based developer Modus Properties has hired Grant Thornton and Eversheds to prepare for the launch of a £2bn Real Estate Investment Trust.

Bolton Council has selected developer Rushbond to restore Little Bolton Town Hall in the Little Bolton regeneration area.

The sale of the leisure complex the Printworks in Manchester has been halted by BA Pension Fund and Pearl Group after a buyer failed to emerge.

Regeneration agency Cumbria Vision has appointed Roger Liddle, principal adviser to the President of the European Commission, as its new chairman.

Twenty-four senior regeneration executives from around the UK are competing to become chief executive of the new Liverpool regeneration company.

Property firms in Liverpool are being asked to drape their buildings with artwork leading up to and during the city’s European Capital of Culture year.

Marketing Manchester will relocate to Town Centre Securities’ listed Carvers Warehouse in Piccadilly Basin in December.

Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, is setting up a new real estate structured finance office in Manchester, its first UK regional base.

The Irish investor has acquired a "substantial stake" from Merepark to become the new joint venture partner in Eastgate Tower in Manchester.

Celebrating the new cruise liner facility in Liverpool (slideshow)

The Australian architects behind the Civil Justice Centre in Manchester will embark on a year-long recruitment drive to establish a regional base.

Two separate architectural competitions are being held to create high-quality tourist facilities in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria.

Figures released by Virgin Trains show that passenger numbers between the North West and London have grown by at least two-thirds since 2005

The developer appointed to bring 147 acres of derelict grounds and buildings near Preston back into use has added more social housing to its plans.

Jayne Dowle examines the rising popularity of retirement villages