The Ayrlington, one of Bath’s small, five-star hotels, has been sold for well above its £2.5m asking price in a move that demonstrates a strong recovery in the tourist business. The 16-bedroom Ayrlington was bought by a private Italian investor who already owns an hotel in Bath. Simon Wells, hotels director at property agents...
Accountants and financial planners Old Mill have recruited their first IT director in a move that reflects the firm’s significant on-going investment in its IT systems and infrastructure. Highly-experienced IT specialist James, pictured, will head Old Mill’s existing three-man IT team across its five West Country offices, including Wells and Melksham. The 41-year-old previously...
YTL Hotels, part of the Malaysian YTL conglomerate that owns Wessex Water, has taken over the operating contract of Bath’s Thermae Spa. The deal, announced last summer, comes ahead of YTL Hotels opening its nearby 5-star Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel later this year. Bath and North East Somerset Council will continue to own the...
Bath city centre is to get the South West’s fastest broadband with the launch of GigaBath – a scheme pioneered by the city’s internet telephony, broadband and web hosting firm Gradwell Communications. In a move that could lead to new jobs and give a much-needed boost to the economy, Gradwell has teamed up with...
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and...
Bath law firm Stone King has completed a major refurbishment of its headquarters in the city as demand for its specialist legal services continues to grow. Scaffolding has now been removed from outside the firm’s Queen Square offices following three months of extensive work on the Grade 1 listed building where Jane Austen is...
Intelligent design and its role in low carbon construction is the topic for the first Low Carbon Business Breakfast of the new year, held in Bath on January 21. Among innovations to be discussed will be self-healing concrete, use of nanoparticles in construction and building houses that make their occupants happy. The session will...
Construction work has started on the UK’s largest solar power farm, thanks to Bath-based agricultural land specialists at West law firm Thrings. The firm acted in collaboration with land agency WebbPaton on behalf of the landowner of the 230-acre site near Didcot, including negotiating the lease of the land to Hampshire-based solar farm developer...
National property agents Knight Frank’s industrial team in the South West has been boosted with the arrival of Josh Gunn as a graduate surveyor. Josh, pictured, joins the Bristol office from Plymouth property consultant Vickery Holman where he spent two years in the agency department after graduating from Oxford Brookes University in Real Estate...
The farm agency team at national property consultancy Carter Jonas, which has offices in Bath and Wells, has completed its most successful year ever, handling more than 18,000 acres of land with a combined asking value of more than £185m. The figures reflect the continued strength of the farmland market and the high regard...
