Large US-based property companies have their corporate eyes firmly on European properties and are cashing in at an impressive rate. In the first nine months of this year, corporations have spent 3.5 billion euros on foreign real estate... Read More
Last week Movehut News reported that celebrities, including actor Hugh Grant, had added their names to a petition calling on Chelsea and Kensington Council to reject plans that would lead to the loss of a Chelsea pub. Now a group of Kingston University... Read More
Demand for retail space fell again in the last quarter as economic uncertainty continues to depress the market. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Commercial Market Survey, which was released on Friday, shows that take-up of high street... Read More
London Mayor Boris Johnson has approved a controversial development that will involve the partial demolition of a historic Spitalfields building. The mayor made the decision despite the fact that Tower Hamlets council has twice rejected the application which... Read More
Barclays banking chain has faced its fair share of problems in the past year. Only a few months ago, customer trust in the group was shaken to the core by the interest fixing Libor scandal, which led to the replacement of chief executive Bob Diamond by retail... Read More
A ruling by the Supreme Court has brought to an end a five year legal battle that threatened the estates of some of the UK’s wealthiest landlords. An unintended loophole in the 2002 Leasehold Reform Act had led to confusion about the distinction between... Read More
High street retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has launched a seasonal recruitment drive to take on an additional 20,000 employees across the UK & Republic of Ireland as it continues its festive recruitment drive. Successful applicants will be... Read More
Commercial properties in central London have been a bright spot on the investment map this year, with capital values up by 0.2 per cent in August. According to the CBRE UK Monthly index, although the returns are down from the 0.4 per cent figure in July, they... Read More
The commercial real estate markets in the Czech Republic and Romania are not performing well in 2012. The number of transactions is down by over 75 per cent to €542 million in the first three quarters of the year, according to Cushman & Wakefield. The... Read More
The Chancellor, George Osborne, may have thought he was on to a winner when he proposed that workers could be asked to exchange employment rights for company shares. However, the plan has been met with a lukewarm response from the business community in... Read More
