Hot 100 Retail Locations: 4) Birmingham
Birmingham is the second-largest city in the UK, with a population of more than one million. It has a fairly mixed-affluence catchment and is considered to have the fourth-largest comparison goods...
View ArticleHot 100 Retail Locations: 3) Leicester
Leicester is the county town of Leicestershire and the biggest city in the east Midlands. Its nearest competing centres include Nottingham and Coventry.
View ArticleHot 100 Retail Locations: 2) Norwich
The county town of Norfolk is a fairly isolated rural town with a fairly affluent catchment area.
View ArticleHot 100 Retail Locations: 1) Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a purpose-built new town designed in the 1960s. It has an affluent catchment and sits within London’s commuter belt.
View ArticleHot 100 Retail Locations 2015
Location specialist CACI has produced an exclusive list of the UK’s hottest retail locations for Property Week.
View ArticleA Dream come true for Triple Five
Triple Five is thinking big with its new mall. American Dream will be the largest in North America when it opens in 2017. Principal Don Ghermezian explains how that dream is being made a reality
View ArticleFrom Miami and Mapic... to Margate and Milton Keynes
Ah, the life of a jet-setting journo… I wish. I’m cream-crackered at the moment having returned from holiday in Miami just in time for press day and to pack my suitcase again for retail extravaganza...
View ArticlePositive sales help lift Taylor Wimpey
Taylor Wimpey shares surged 4.1% on Monday after the housebuilder published a strong trading update.
View ArticleThe challenges of delivering a ‘City in the East’
The mayor of London’s recently released ambitions for housebuilding in the capital, encapsulated in the City in the East plan, is very much a reflection of the market’s independent view on housing...
View ArticleWhy people are the heart of property innovation
Five months ago I suggested that the property industry was not always as innovative as it should be.
View ArticleThe rise and rise of ‘retailtainment’
Much has changed in the world of retail during the past decade and it is only at industry gatherings such as the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) earlier in the year and Mapic this week that...
View ArticleLink lending to long-term valuation measure and boom and bust could become a...
In this troubled world, there are far bigger challenges to be tackled than worrying about lending-driven real estate crises.
View ArticleLSH Enterprise Award: the winner
The winner of the inaugural LSH Enterprise Award has been decided.
View ArticleAre we still in double-dip jeopardy?
This month marks the first anniversary of the introduction of the Investment Property Forum’s double-dipping protocol. But how much difference has the code has made and what more needs to be done?
View ArticleBusiness as usual at Mapic? Not quite
The mood was inevitably more subdued than usual at Mapic this week, especially on Wednesday morning as delegates awoke to the news of more explosions and heavy gunfire in the Paris suburb of...
View ArticleOrganic growth or acquisition: which is better?
Real estate professionals tasked with growing a property portfolio have typically had two choices: expand through organic growth, or, for a potentially faster solution, grow through acquisition.
View ArticleManchester set to become world’s newest global city
Connections have always been crucial for business.
View ArticleAre start-ups slipping through the property net?
Recent years have seen an entrepreneurial revolution.
View ArticleThe Tories’ troubles are nothing compared with Labour’s
Writing this on Sunday for publication after Wednesday’s Autumn Statement and not having a crystal ball, I don’t yet know how George Osborne will have unpicked his last Budget’s approach to working tax...
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