Colliers International has sold a stylish bed-and-breakfast property in the Cotswolds hotspot of Winchcombe for £850,000. New owners of the Malvern View B & B are Marco and Cathy Giorgi who sold a larger hotel in Eastbourne to make the switch — along... Read More
Hammerson has announced that two new international retailers, Khaadi and Thomas Sabo are making their brand debut at Highcross shopping centre in Leicester this month. The Pakistani multinational fashion retailer, Khaadi, opened its 2,310 sq ft store... Read More
Birmingham’s increasingly strong regional commercial property market is a cause of great celebration for investors in the area, with local property group Real Estate Investors one of the major beneficiaries of this trend. This week, the real estate... Read More
Aseana Properties — the Channel Islands based developer focused on Vietnam and Malaysia — has blamed its deepening half-year losses on “poor Far East trading conditions”. The London Stock Exchange-listed company reported a pretax loss in the... Read More
Thanks to a strong uplift in consumer confidence, the number of shopping centre developments in the UK has skyrocketed in recent years, with many developers choosing to capitalise on the expansion plans of numerous High Street retailers. According to... Read More
Legal & General Property (LGP) has spent almost £160m in less than 24 hours to acquire a regional shopping centre and a west London office block. Adding the Grafton Centre in Cambridge and the capital’s First Central 200 (FC200) office complex to... Read More
A report from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has predicted that if business rates continue in their current state, over 80,000 shops will be closed within the next two years. Ministers have warned that a change in shopping habits and a growing... Read More
Like the majority of Britain’s supermarket chains, Morrisons has suffered repeatedly in recent years at the hands of discounters such as Aldi and Lidl which have offered consumers an alternative to the traditional “Big Four” template which dominated the... Read More
After 63 years and 1,671 outlets, Britain's biggest bakery chain is about to add another chapter to its history — by selling its fast food afloat. In a pioneering venture with Wightlink, which operates ferries between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight,... Read More
A multi-million pound Warwickshire retail complex — still ten months away from completion — is now 100 per cent let. Being built by St Modwen as the fourth stage of its rolling 70-acre regeneration scheme on Rugby's Leicester Road, its latest... Read More