A Solihull-based property firm has completed three deals valued at close to £7.5 million.

Earlplace has sold one of the last remaining development sites in St Paul's Square, Birmingham, to a private purchaser.

The company sold the property at 36-37 Cox Street for £1,140,000 after plans to create an office development were hampered by an English Heritage listing.

Tim Malby, managing director of the company, said: "This property is suitable for both residential and commercial office development.

"We had been proposing an office scheme which had planning permission but then the building was spot listed.

"The listing caused us to redesign a smaller extension and added considerable delay so when this unconditional offer materialised from a developer to build apartments, we felt it right to sell."

Also, in a joint venture with Real Land and Kilmartin, Earlplace sold a prime office building in Parkland Square, Luton, for £3.6 million to Threadneedle Asset Management.

And Earlplace's hat-trick of deals was concluded by the sale of three retail units on the Parade in Leamington Spa.

The shops, which are already let to Underground, Reynolds Blinds and A-Plan Insurance, were sold for £950,000 to a private investor.

Earlplace has turned the upper floors into ten luxury apartments and has sold three of the units.

Mr Malby added that the commercial deal had helped keep the apartments at an affordable level.

He said: "The Parade is the central location in Leamington and our conversion has taken full advantage of the building's structure. The rental income we had been receiving allowed us to price the apartments at levels within reach of younger purchasers."