Eagle Trustees has let two units at the Green Lanes shopping centre. Sportswift, trading as Card Factory, has taken Unit 1 comprising 1,476 sq ft on a 10-year lease, at a rent of £53,000 pa. And Passion for Perfume has taken Units K8 and K17 comprising a total of 297 sq ft on a 10-year lease at a rent of £24,000 pa. The landlord was advised by Savills. Sportswift was represented by Fawley Watson Booth, and Passion for Perfume was represented by Lunson Mitchenall.

? bolton

Grangefern Properties has let the 1,000 sq ft Unit 4C at Burnden Park, Manchester Road, to Subway at £25,000 pa. And the 1,200 sq ft Unit 4A has been leased to Carphone Warehouse at £27,500 pa. Tushingham Moore, Cheetham & Mortimer and Briant Champion Long are letting agents.

? Cheltenham

Salmon Harvester Properties has let Unit 1 at the Brewery, providing 2,422 sq ft, to Prezzo on a 25-year lease at £27.25 per sq ft. And Unit 12, providing 4,815 sq ft, has been let to Real China on a 25-year lease at £130,000 pa. Cushman & Wakefield and Hartnell Taylor Cook are letting agents.

? Chippenham

Lone Eagle Retail has let Unit 4, Emery Gate shopping centre, to Phones 4 U. The 1,631 sq ft unit has been taken on a new 10-year lease at £42,000 pa. The landlord was advised by Savills. Phones 4 U was represented by Morgan Williams.

? Crawley

Standard Life Investments has let Unit 94A at County Mall to Winona, trading as Quizno's. The food retailer has taken 1,015 sq ft on a new 15-year lease at a rent of £52,500 pa. The landlord was advised by Churston Heard and CWM, while Atisreal acted for Quizno's

? Fareham

Zurich Assurance has leased Unit 7, Market Quay, to Poundland on a new 15-year lease at an initial rent of £100,000 pa rising to £110,000 pa at year four. The unit totals 6,500 sq ft. Colliers CRE and Morgan Williams are letting agents and Capital Retail advised the tenant.

? Letchworth

Helical Bar has taken a surrender of Birthdays' lease on Unit 28 at the Garden Square shopping centre and re-let it to Costa Coffee on a new 15-year lease. The unit comprises 1,036 sq ft of ground floor sales space with a 525 sq ft first floor storage area, and has been let at a new annual rent of £49,153. Savills advised the landlord and Birthdays was advised by Brasier Harris.

? London, E1

ABN AMRO has let the five retail units at its 250 Bishopsgate headquarters in Spitalfields, London E1, to Kathmandu, Cycle Surgery and hairdressers Edward Holland. Outdoor fashion clothing shop Kathmandu has taken Unit 1, totalling 1,200 sq ft. Cycle Surgery has opened its sixth London store at Units 2/3, totalling 2,400 sq ft while City-based hairdresser Edward Holland has relocated from a nearby unit to take Units 4/5, totalling 1,500 sq ft. All the units were taken on new 15-year leases at rents of £75 to £85 zone A. Atisreal acted on behalf of ABN AMRO and Thomas Davidson acted on behalf of Kathmandu.

? London W8

Comfortable Estates has let unit 13 at Kensington Shopping Mall to West Cornwall Pasty Company. The 303 sq ft unit has been taken on a new 10-year lease at a passing rent of £76,500 pa. Churston Heard was letting agent and Kitchen La Frenais Morgan represented West Cornwall Pasty Company.

? Newton Aycliffe

The YMCA has acquired Unit 9 in the Thames Centre, providing 1,353 sq ft of sales space plus additional rear and first floor storage, by way of a new five-year lease, with a tenant-only option to break at the expiration of year three. The initial rent is £11,500 pax. Williams Gunter Hardwick represented YMCA while the landlord, Harley Street International, was represented by Sanderson Weatherall.

? Norwich

The Mall Corporation has let a retail unit at Castle Mall, Norwich to M & K Finch. Trading as Aspects of Norfolk, the local produce and toiletries retailer has taken the 1,234 sq ft store on a new 10-year lease at a rent of £40,000 pa. The Mall was advised by Churston Heard.

? Rutherglen

Women's wear retailer Select Clothing has acquired a 1,900 sq ft unit in Rutherglen shopping centre. It is paying £40,000 pa for the new 10-year lease. Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant and McParlane & Co represented the landlord, Catalyst Six Retail LP.

? Rotherham

The Hercules Property Unit Trust, managed by British Land, has granted a 15-year lease on a 5,000 sq ft unit at Parkgate Retail World to Shutopia. A commencing rent of £245,000 pa, equating to £49 per sq ft, was agreed. Wilkinson Williams, Anderson Harkins and Harvey Spack Field were joint letting agents.

? Swindon

Brunel Trustee (Jersey) Limited has let 7 Canal Walk, part of the Brunel Centre, to T-Mobile. The retail unit comprises 1,394 sq ft of sales space with 1,947 sq ft of first floor ancillary space. The property has been let on a 10-year lease at £137,500 pa. The landlord was advised by Savills and T-Mobile was represented by Lambert Smith Hampton.

? Walsall

F&C Property Asset Management has let Unit 1, Broadwalk Retail Park to Internacionale at a record rent for the 134,844 sq ft park of £15 per sq ft. The 10,443 sq ft unit will trade as Au Naturale on a 15-year lease. F&C Property Asset Management, on behalf of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme, was advised by Colliers CRE. Internacionale was advised by Savills.

? Windsor

Children's fashion retailer Petit Bateau has assigned 23 Windsor Royal Station, Windsor, to Whistles. The unit comprises a ground floor sales area of 821 sq ft with 386 sq ft of first floor storage. The 15-year lease runs from December 2002 at a current rent of £65,000 pax and a premium of £35,000 was achieved. Petit Bateau was represented by Stephen Kane & Co and Whistles by Carter Wassell Murdoch.

deals for St Christopher's Place

St Christopher's Place, F&C Property Asset Management's shopping and dining district just off Oxford Street in London W1, has attracted two new names. Washington Green Fine Art has taken 737 sq ft on a five-year lease at £65,000 pa. Spanish restaurant La Tasca has taken a 3,000 sq ft unit on a 27-year lease at £170,000 pa. CWM is retained retail letting agent.

Butlers serves up new Solihull store

The German homeware retailer Butlers has taken 19-21 Mill Lane, Solihull on a 10-year lease from Morley Fund Management at a rent of £270,000 pa. The unit totals 10,857 sq ft.

The family-run company, which has more than 50 outlets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, opened its first UK store last summer in the Crown Arcade in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey and has since opened a flagship on Brompton Road, London SW3 and a further unit at the N1 Shopping Centre in Islington, London.

Harper Dennis Hobbs is retained to acquire a further five stores this year, of 2,500 to 3,500 sq ft, in major cities and shopping centres throughout the UK.

Gooch Cunliffe Whale advised Morley Fund Management.

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