Network Rail’s comprehensive £40m refurbishment of Princes Exchange in central Leeds is now underway, bringing prime Grade A office space to the commercial rental market. The 111,078 sq. ft, seven-storey building, next to Leeds City station, was bought by Network Rail in 2024 to bring track and train colleagues together in one location in Leeds.

Keyland Developments Ltd, the property trading arm of Kelda Group and sister-company to Yorkshire Water, has launched to market a 24.4 acre site in Rotherham which has planning consent in place for 333,000 sq ft of employment space. GV & Co has been appointed as sole agent to market the site.

The National Railway Museum in York has signed a contract with Graham Construction Ltd to begin main construction work on building Central Hall, a landmark new museum building that will transform visitor experience.

Next week Yorkshire’s property professionals will have the chance to hear from CEO of Real Estate:UK, Melanie Leech, and CBRE Investment Management’s Head of UK Direct Real Strategies, Hannah Marshall, at a free breakfast seminar at Harvey Nichols’ Fourth Floor Brasserie.

Education recruitment specialist Operam Education Group has announced the acquisition of Choice Teachers and its brand, Bespoke Education, for an undisclosed sum. The deal marks the ninth acquisition for the Barnsley-headquartered group as part of a 10-year growth strategy.

York-based architecture firm brown + company has secured first place in a national design competition to create a new community facility on the Portobello Promenade in Edinburgh.

A flagship office building, which would perfectly serve as a company’s headquarters, is available to buy or to let at the Capitol Park development in Leeds. The building, which was formerly the headquarters of Real Radio, is ideally situated at the entrance to Capitol Park East by Junction 28 of the M62.

Tom Tate, one of Yorkshire’s most popular and successful horse-racing trainers, is saying farewell to the beloved house where he and his family have lived for the past 36 years, but he isn’t shedding too many tears. “It’s not because we haven’t loved living here, we absolutely have.

Strategic property and construction advisors, Fox Lloyd Jones (FLJ) have launched 84 Albion Street on behalf of ESR at an asking price of offers in excess of £4 million. The mixed-use freehold commercial building is situated in a high-profile position between the city’s established retail core and its expanding office district.

A private student accommodation provider has appointed Silverstone Building Consultancy to carry out pre-acquisition building surveys on an extensive portfolio of student properties located across the UK. The portfolio includes a mix of purpose-built and converted student blocks, as well as HMO’s, in the heavily student populated cities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Liverpool, Manchester and York.

An enormous bug hotel has been installed at a Leeds housing development helping to provide new homes for both wildlife and people. Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey Yorkshire commissioned Wildlife and Birdcare Nature recovery project (CIC) to provide the giant 2m by 4m bug hotel for their development at Morwick Springs, in Leeds Road.

A stunning Berkshire country house, built with bespoke York Handmade Company’s bricks, has been chosen as the Sunday Times’ House of the Week. The Georgian-style Glebe House in Chieveley, near Newbury, is on the market with offers over £1.75m.

Wakefield-based worktop specialist Roann has secured a new six-figure contract with national housebuilder Taylor Wimpey, extending a partnership that began in 2019. The new project will see Roann supply and install Silestone kitchen worktops for buyers at Taylor Wimpey’s Marske Sands development in Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire. The 342-home scheme is due for completion by 2027.

The Oaks Hotel & Leisure Club, a distinguished country house hotel located on the outskirts of Burnley, has been acquired by Burnley Based Rambler Group Holdings for an undisclosed sum. The transaction was managed by Colliers’ specialist Hotels team who initially put the opportunity to the market at offers in the region of £1,800,000.

A vast West Yorkshire business park that offers 489,000 sq ft of fully occupied industrial space on a 23-acre site, which is home to seven businesses and has further development potential, is for sale.

Two students from Yorkshire have been named regional winners at the Women in Property Yorkshire & North East Student Awards 2025. Ciara Patterson, a degree apprentice at Sheffield Hallam University, and Ellen Campbell, an Architectural Technology student at Leeds Beckett University, were recognised for their academic and professional promise in the built environment sector.

From a teenager who went from struggling at school to thriving on site with a hands-on apprenticeship, to a fifth-generation family firm still leading with heart over a century on, this year’s North Master Builder Awards are a celebration not just of beautiful homes, but of the people behind them.

Two high-quality office spaces have become available at The Menagerie, Escrick Park, a sought-after rural business location just six miles south of York. Set within a thriving business community of 40+ companies, these vacancies offer a rare opportunity to secure office space in a well-connected yet tranquil environment.

A robust year for the industrial and logistics market in West Yorkshire and the Humber saw transactional take-up reach a three-year high of 2.1 million sq ft (units over 50,000 sq ft), according to global property consultancy Knight Frank’s latest Logic Report. This represents a 25% increase from 2023 levels and is reflecting the pre-pandemic 5-year average.