After a washout summer in terms of sales, retailers are hoping that winter will bring them better fortunes. Due to the wet weather which dominated most of the season, items such as summer clothing, barbecues and outdoor furniture failed to meet expectations... Read More
Amazon, the world’s largest internet retailer, is to pay over $1 billion to secure the purchase of its Seattle headquarters. The price paid to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, for the 1.8 million square feet of office space, is the highest ever paid in... Read More
Many students around the country will be gearing up for one of the biggest social events in the university calendar. Carnage is a pub crawl event which allows new students to get to know their new location, enjoy drinks promotions in participating commercial... Read More
A combination of the wettest summer for 100 years and the effect of the Olympics led to the worst trading period “in living memory” for many London attractions, new figures reveal. Some attractions suffered a 60 per cent drop in visitor numbers while... Read More
There are many office towers up for sale in second-tier cities across the United States, and investors seeking higher levels of return on their investments are responding with great interest. New listings that have recently come onto the market include IDS... Read More
The poor economic conditions in the UK currently are taking their toll on the high street, with multiple chains and independent stores posting poor sales, profit warnings and even administration announcements on an almost weekly basis. Most recently, sporting... Read More
Commercial property investors looking to invest in Saudi Arabia have a sense of optimism that makes perfect sense, given the encouraging developments that have been happening in the country. In February 2011, King Abdullah made a major announcement that the... Read More
With the recession easing slightly and inflation finally coming under control, consumers are loosening the purse strings and beginning to spend again. However, value for money is still at the forefront of the mind of the average shopper, meaning that stores... Read More
The difficulties faced by the licensed trade have been widely documented. Currently pubs in the UK are closing at a rate variously reported as being between 12 and 50 a week. The online Lost Pubs Project lists over 21,000 public houses that have closed their... Read More
A £2 billion theme park on the scale of Disneyland Paris is expected to create more than 27,000 jobs in Kent. The huge development is on an 872 acre plot of brownfield land between Dartford and Gravesend and is provisionally scheduled to open in... Read More
