All Property articles – Page 347
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Princesse Tam.Tam on hunt for first raft of London shops
Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing has instructed agent Harper Dennis Hobbs to search for sites in the UK for its lingerie brand Princesse Tam.Tam.
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East wins £4m to revive expansion plan
Fashion retailer East’s financial backers have injected 4 million to reignite growth at the fashion retailer, 18 months after aggressive expansion plans were shelved
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John Lewis to open smaller shops to hit growth targets
John Lewis plans to open department stores of half its typical branch size to achieve its ambition of doubling in scale over the next 10 years.
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Spain’s Blanco to enter UK market with White City deal
Spanish fashion retailer Blanco is to open its first UK store in west London next year.
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Blowing hot and cold
Developers want to make their shopping centres sustainable, but there is only so much they can do – retailers need to play their part too. So are they really interested, asks John Ryan
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Moscow retail rent most expensive in Europe
Moscow is the most expensive retail location in Europe and second in the world, according to property agency CBRE.
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UK is not the only country
While the activity at property conference Mapic last week was much the same as last year – doing deals, networking and dashing around – there seemed to be a shift in retailers’ mindset.
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Bluewater has Christmas all wrapped up
Bluewater in Kent has covered parts of its shopping centre with gift wrap as part of its Christmas marketing campaign.
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New Bond Street rent is most expensive in UK
London’s New Bond Street remains the UK’s most expensive shopping street to rent space on, buoyed by a glut of new luxury retailers opening stores there.
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Move over outlet centres
Now that there are so many value players around, the line between outlet centres and the high street has become blurred. John Ryan asks if there is still a call for such schemes
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Sainsbury's strikes joint venture deal with Land Securities
Sainsbury's has unveiled a joint venture with property giant Land Securities to unlock 113 million worth of freehold assets.
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Land Securities to split into three
Land Securities, the UK’s biggest property company, is to split into three, setting up a separate quoted company for its retail assets.
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Little Miss Matched eyes 50 UK stores in five years
Children’s clothing retailer Little Miss Matched intends to open up to 50 shops in the UK in the next three to five years, after opening its first store in the UK at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent this summer.
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Opinion
St Pancras is a shopping haven
Last week, the Queen reopened St Pancras station and the new Channel Tunnel rail terminal for Eurostar and said she hoped that people would consider it as a destination and not just as a station.
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Athlone Towncentre scheme opens to 15,000 shoppers
Ireland’s Athlone Towncentre scheme opened last weekend with more than 15,000 shoppers converging on the 500 million ( 348.3 million) mixed-use development.
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Developers pick town centre jobs over out-of-town
Three quarters of developers would prefer to develop a town centre scheme rather than an out-of-town equivalent, according to research from Hartnell Taylor Cook.
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PMA launches shopping mall benchmark scheme
The Property Managers Association (PMA) has created an audit programme designed to help retailers see exactly what they’re paying for at shopping centres.
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Analysis
The sky's the limit
Occupying a space the size of 50 football pitches and with high expectations to meet, Heathrow’s £4 billion Terminal 5 is pulling out all the stops. John Ryan checks out the nearly completed site
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Leases shorten as challenging market conditions take effect
Average lease lengths were cut this year as retailers struggled to maintain flexibility in a tough market.
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Sustainability is becoming more important
The BCSC Conference and Showcase kicked off this morning with a call to action on sustainability.