News & Views - 2016
The latest news, events and insights in the Wales property world

Developing a new generation of professionals
Three new graduate surveyors have been recruited to Cooke & Arkwright as part of the firm’s long term commitment to training, supporting and developing a new generation of professionals. Rhys…

Reflections in space
Visitors to Cooke & Arkwright’s offices in Cardiff are being greeted with a brand new reception area and adjacent meeting rooms that are almost unrecognisable from the previous space. We…
Award winning coffee house teams up with Wales’ largest building society
Two of Wales’ most well-known brands have partnered following the completion of new commercial space in the centre of Cardiff. Coffee#1 has opened at The Friary, the space recently refurbished…

Welsh deadline for empty property rate exemption looming
The Welsh Government’s New Development Scheme is a temporary measure which exempts all newly built commercial property which is completed by 30 September 2016 from liability to empty property rate…

Ten for the Pen
At around 6:30pm on Saturday 16th July, whilst most sensible people were settling down to watch Ant & Dec on the telly, eight foolhardy souls from Cooke & Arkwright’s past…

36% year-on-year rise in Cardiff office lettings as HMRC completes 54,587 sq ft at Brunel House
Office space lettings in Cardiff for 2016 are up by 36% on the same time last year, according to new figures revealed by Cooke & Arkwright, as the commercial property…