A housebuilding giant is to relocate its Glasgow regional office.

Barratt Developments is to move from Buchanan Gate in Stepps to Maxim Park near Glasgow in North Lanarkshire after 17 years.

It will relocate its 80-strong West Scotland team to Maxim Park following the completion of an office fit-out programme in April.

The move comes after the housebuilder, which includes Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, signed a 10-year lease on 9,000 square feet of office space within the third floor of Maxim 7 with landlord, Shelborn Asset Management.

All aspects of business support for Barratt Development’s West Scotland division will be carried out from the new office, including land, design, engineering, sales and construction administration, finance, and customer care.

David Scott, managing director of Barratt and David Wilson Homes West Scotland, said: "At the end of our lease at Buchanan Gate we wanted to find a new site that would enable us to bring all our team members together onto one floor.

"Not only does the new office space we are taking in Maxim 7 fulfil that objective, but it has excellent transport links and offers a central location that is ideal for both staff and guests. It is expected the relocation will be completed by the summer."

Luxury spa and massage salon, Revive the Key to Wellness, award-winning renewables firm Muirhall Energy, and Mighty Rick’s Gym from Scottish legend and former world champion boxer Ricky Burns, have made the move to Maxim Park over the last few months.

Caroline Baillie, Maxim’s director of park services, said: "It’s been a busy few months for us at Maxim Park as we’ve been thrilled to welcome several new organisations to our community, and it’s our pleasure to add Barratt Developments to that number.

"We’re looking forward to helping the team settle into their new surroundings with the help of our packed and varied events schedule, which includes professional development workshops, craft activities, charity initiatives, drive-in cinema listings and a range of health and wellness initiatives."

Maxim Park, which boasts 760,000 sq ft of quality office and retail space close to the M8 motorway on the fringes of Glasgow, forms part of Eurocentral and was acquired by Shelborn Asset Management in 2018. 

Over the past five years the office park has welcomed a raft of new tenants including LumiraDX, Aureum Diagnostics, TClarke, Linear Group and Sartorius.

Kinlochleven population decline requires 'serious action'

At its height it employed around 700 people in the Highland village off the A82 that only sees sun for half of the year, according to locals, because of the ten Munros that surround it.

Kinlochleven was the first village in the world to see every house connected to electricity thanks to the hydro-generating station that powered its aluminum smelter. Workers were given a new home and a job for life. The British Alcan social club provided a host of events for families and the village main street had a butcher, a chemist and an ironmonger. Kinloch, as it is better known, was multi-generational and thriving.

Paid off your mortgage? Time to invest in yourself

This article appears as part of the Money HQ newsletter.

We all recall those life-changing moments. Meeting your life partner for the first time. Taking your newborn baby home or collecting the keys to your first flat.

And that moment when you pay off your mortgage? That’s a moment you never forget. Becoming mortgage-free feels fantastic. After all, a mortgage is often the biggest debt we ever take on – and it can take up to 25 years to pay it off, and own your home outright. That’s decades of putting money aside, comparing interest rates, or shopping for the right mortgage.