All Property articles – Page 326

  • Analysis

    Supermarket non-food formats: home is where the heart is

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    There is not much good news on the retail park scene at the moment. But with the advent of the supermarket non-food formats, new life is being breathed into developments across the UK.Asda opened the first of its non-food-only Asda Living stores in Walsall in October 2004 and now has ...

  • Analysis

    Design with an edge

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Way back when, retail parks were shiny, happy places to be. You could access them with ease and when you got there, by car, you could park for free more or less directly outside whichever shop you fancied. They also offered choice, albeit from within large sheds that boasted outsize ...

  • Analysis

    Planning: Appetite for development

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Government’s latest report on out-of-town planning has raised more questions than it has answered, but if anything is certain it is that the sector must up its game, says Ben Cooper

  • Analysis

    It's not all doom and gloom

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Everyone in the retail warehouse market will be glad to see the back of 2008. Retailers and landlords alike have endured a miserable year, all stemming from the collapse in the market for furniture and home improvement.Weaker players like ScS, Floors To Go and New Heights have gone into administration, ...

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    News

    Westfield tenants angry over ‘nightmare’ charges

    2008-10-02T17:22:00Z

    Major retailers have criticised Westfield London this week over problems they are facing fitting out their stores ahead of the scheme’s opening at the end of this month.

  • News

    Retail on the ropes

    2008-10-02T16:01:00Z

    Sector left reeling as relentless financial crisis leads to dramatic sales slump over past fortnight

  • Opinion

    For extra cash, take in a lodger or two

    2008-10-02T15:53:10Z

    While every retailer is constantly on the lookout for ways of increasing sales and cutting costs, there is a growing number that are generating a whole new stream of revenue from their prime asset: store space.

  • Analysis

    Bristol Cabot Circus: The circus comes to town

    2008-10-02T15:31:09Z

    Bristol may be the UK’s eighth-largest city, but in retail rankings it barely makes the top 30. Ben Cooper goes to the opening of Cabot Circus, the scheme about to change all that

  • News

    Grosvenor opens Liverpool One second phase

    2008-10-02T08:09:00Z

    The second phase of Liverpool One opened on Wednesday with a ceremony attended by The Princess Royal.

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    News

    Four retailers at Liverpool One beset by delays with opening

    2008-09-30T11:44:00Z

    Four retailers due to open at Liverpool One later this year are facing delays because of complications with the redevelopment of listed buildings.

  • News

    Work kicks off on Peterborough scheme

    2008-09-30T11:42:50Z

    Work is under way on Peterborough Garden Park as owner Garden Park Investments announces the signing of garden and leisure retailer Van Hage as the scheme’s anchor tenant.

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    Opinion

    Property comment: Westfield, retail's Marmite

    2008-09-30T10:40:00Z

    Where Marmite is concerned, you either love it or hate it. Retailers fall into the same distinct camps when it comes to Westfield London.

  • News

    Hermes offers tenants option to pay monthly

    2008-09-26T09:40:15Z

    Hermes, one of the UK’s largest retail landlords, has broken ranks to offer its tenants the chance to pay their rents monthly in advance.

  • Analysis

    In the pipeline

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    2008 has been a one-off year for shopping centre development, but the coming decade will have plenty of interest, despite tough timesAnother year of shopping centre openings like 2008 is unlikely to be seen again in the next decade. The changes in our projected list of 2018’s top towns reflect ...

  • Analysis

    Location, location, location

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Fact: Retail has been hit hard by global economic conditions. Fact: Retail footfall is down across the board, with out-of-town retail schemes feeling the greatest pain. Fact: A growing number of retailers have entered administration or have issued severe profit warnings.Given the above, it is no surprise that retailers are ...

  • Analysis

    Watch the top 20 towns closer than ever

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    The UK’s top towns can’t have had a more dramatic year of change than this.From Liverpool to Leicester to London and from Bristol to Belfast, the retail property industry has created more significant new developments this year than in any other in recent memory.These schemes have been a long time ...

  • News

    Cabot Circus: Bristol retail scheme opens

    2008-09-25T12:15:00Z

    The much-awaited Cabot Circus scheme in Bristol opened its doors today.

  • News

    Southgate: Work resumes at Bath scheme after fire

    2008-09-25T10:46:12Z

    Work has resumed on the Multi Development Southgate scheme in Bath following a fire on the site this week.

  • Analysis

    Edinburgh: A capital idea for Scotland at St James Quarter

    2008-09-25T10:42:27Z

    Despite Edinburgh’s cultural richness its retail portfolio has long been in the shadow of its neighbour Glasgow. Now an overhaul of its most unattractive scheme is set to give the city the offer it deserves. By Ben Cooper

  • News

    Blaze holds up shopping centre development

    2008-09-24T10:14:54Z

    A fire that tore through a shopping centre construction site in Bath has brought the project to a standstill while fire investigations are carried out.