ING Real Estate Investment Management has secured two new lettings at County Square shopping centre. Carphone Warehouse has taken a 1,550-sq ft unit on a 10-year lease at £75,000 pa and Kilburn Jewellers has taken a 1,557-sq ft unit on a 10-year lease at an initial rent of £20,000 pa, rising to £56,500 pa in March 2008. ING Britannica's letting agents are Lunson Mitchenall and CB Richard Ellis. Savills is the managing agent.

? BOLTON

Agora Shopping Centres has secured two new lettings in the Market Place shopping centre. Morellis has opened a 1,189-sq ft mall cafe on a 20-year lease at £40,000 pa and Duffer Menswear has taken 1,389 sq ft on a 15-year lease at £68,000 pa. Tushingham Moore and DTZ Debenham Tie Leung are letting agents. Whitby Smith acted for Morellis and Lambert Smith Hampton acted for Duffer.

? COATBRIDGE

New Look has signed a 15-year lease on a newly-created store of 8,500 sq ft at the Quadrant shopping centre. The rent is £92,500 pax. The landlord, PJKI, was advised by CWM and CB Richard Ellis advised New Look.

? COATBRIDGE

Card Factory has taken Unit 58, providing 1,668 sq ft, at the Coatbridge shopping centre on a 10-year lease at £34,500 pa. Jones Lang LaSalle and Lambert Innes were joint letting agents and the tenant was advised by Fawley Watson Booth.

? HIGH WYCOMBE

Hawkin's Bazaar has taken an assignment of Clinton Cards' existing lease, expiring in March 2010 with no further review, on the 1,348-sq ft Unit D6 in the Octagon Centre. The current rent is £65,600 pax. Williams Gunter Hardwick represented Hawkin's Bazaar and the assignor was represented by Brasier Harris.

? LEICESTER

Claire's Accessories has taken Unit 12a, Thurmaston Retail Park on a new 10-year lease at £30,712.50 pa. The new unit totals 819 sq ft and the rent agreed equates to £37.50 psf. Claire's Accessories was advised by Savills and the landlord, Charles Street Building Leicester, was represented by Colliers CRE.

? LIVINGSTON

Land Securities has secured two new tenants for the Almondvale shopping centre with Body Shop and Card Factory both signing 10-year leases. Card Factory will occupy 1,600 sq ft on ground floor only at 74 Almondvale South at a rent of £114,710 pa, and Body Shop will trade from a ground floor unit of 1,200 sq ft at 110 Almondvale South. Montagu Evans and Culverwell were joint letting agents. Savills acted for Body Shop and Fawley Watson Booth for Card Factory.

? LOCH LOMOND

Kilmartin Property Group has agreed a new letting of Unit 5 at Loch Lomond Shores to a Thorntons Café franchisee. The 2,239 sq ft premises have been let on a new 15-year lease at a commencing rent of £50,000 pa. The deal means the retail crescent at Loch Lomond Shores is now fully let. Culverwell was letting agent.

? MAIDSTONE

Hawkin's Bazaar has acquired Unit 355, The Mall, which provides 1,549 sq ft, by way of a new 10-year lease, at an initial rent of £80,000 pax. Williams Gunter Hardwick represented Hawkin's Bazaar and the landlord, The Mall Corporation, was represented by CB Richard Ellis.

? MANCHESTER

Fossil has acquired Unit L14 at PruPim and Capital Shopping Centre's extension to Manchester Arndale. The 850-sq ft unit has been taken on a 15-year lease at £100,000 pa. Fossil was advised by Harper Dennis Hobbs and Tushingham Moore, Lunson Mitchenall and CB Richard Ellis are letting agents.

? NEWBURY

F&C Property Asset Management has extended its Newbury Retail Park by 40,000 sq ft. Arcadia has taken a total of 15,000 sq ft, together with a 5,000-sq ft Evans store, at a combined rent of £230,000 pa on a 10-year lease. Currys has taken 15,000 sq ft at £290,000 pa on a 15-year lease and New Look has taken the 10,000-sq ft former Carpetright unit on a 10-year lease at £250,000 pa. F&C Property was advised by Knight Frank.

? PLYMOUTH

Monsoon has taken Unit SU21 at Drakes Circus, which totals 7,013 sq ft and includes a mezzanine, on a new 10-year lease at a rent of £230,000 pa. Monsoon was represented by Savills and the landlord P&O Developments was advised by Lunson Mitchenall.

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Costa Coffee has signed a new 10-year lease on a 1,717 sq ft mall café in British Land's Queensmere Observatory shopping centre. The lease includes mall seating outside Marks & Spencer. An open market rent of £90,000 pa has been agreed.

? TROON

Red Button has let the final unit in its redevelopment of the former Safeway store in Academy Street to Acorn Pet Centres. The 2,614-sq ft Unit 4 has been let on a 15-year lease at £32,500 pa. The other four units have been let to New Look, Ethel Austin, Savers Health & Beauty and Oxfam. Culverwell was letting agent.

? WATFORD

Royal London Asset Management has let Units 7 and 8 at its Century Retail Park, Dalton Way, Watford to Toys R Us. Allied Carpets has surrendered its lease on Unit 7 and Furniture Land has surrendered its lease on Unit 8. Toys R Us has taken the combined units, totalling 20,000 sq ft on a new 20-year lease at a rent of £36 psf. Royal London Asset Management was advised by Edgerley Simpson Howe & Partners and Ashwell Rogers represented Toys R Us.

Four deals for Queens Arcade

Four new retailers have signed up for Sapphire Retail Fund's Queens Arcade in Cardiff. New Look has taken a new 17,500 sq ft store on a 15-year lease at £575,000 pax. Footlocker has acquired a unit of 3,670 sq ft on a new 15-year lease at a commencing rental of £275,000 pax. At the same time the Post Office has taken Units 9 and 10 to form a new 4,385 sq ft Head Post Office on a new 15-year lease at a commencing rental of £150,000 pax. Half Price Jewellers has taken Unit 14, providing a ground floor sales area of 1,017 sq ft with first floor ancillary accommodation of 770 sq ft, on a 10-year lease at £55,000 pax. Hartnell Taylor Cook and King Sturge are letting agents. CB Richard Ellis advised New Look, Stalder & Co Footlocker, Cooke & Arkwright the Post Office and Wright Silverwood Half Price Jewellers.

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