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POST-pandemic, it was unclear what the future would hold for Belfast city centre and its commercial office sector, as working from home became commonplace and the centre suffered.

NEWRY construction firm Felix O’Hare annexed the top prize at the 2022 CEF Excellence Awards for its work on building the new £70 million PwC headquarters in the centre of Belfast.

A MAJOR new commercial finance provider has launched in Belfast to provide non-banking funding for businesses.

WHEN I think about the effects of the pandemic on business, I tend to split it into Covid Year 1 (2020) and Covid Year 2 (2021).

BUSINESS advisory firm PwC has promoted Kieragh Nelson to become the first woman partner in its fast-growing Operate business.

LAST year was the strongest 12 months for the north’s commercial property sector since 2017, new research from CBRE suggests.

THE backdrop to the Northern Ireland property market in 2021 was dominated by pandemic and Brexit related factors, many of which will continue to impact the market into 2022.

THE north's largest professional services firm PwC insists it “definitely won't be imposing any return-to-work directives” on its thousands of staff despite finally throwing open its new £70 million Belfast headquarters, which has been described as “the next frontier in office space”.

COMMERCIAL property agency CBRE says it expects to see much-improved real estate investment spend in Northern Ireland this year compared to the same period in 2020 – as over £147 million of transactions complete in the first six months of 2021.

A £40 million investment by PwC to create 771 jobs within the group’s fast-growing Operate division puts Belfast at the centre of the professional services giant’s strategy in the UK, a senior figure in the company has said.