All Property articles – Page 315
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NewsWork under way on Oxford Circus diagonal crossing
Work began this week on a project to transform London’s shopping mecca Oxford Circus.A new diagonal crossing, based on Tokyo’s famous Shibuya crossing, will be built on the intersection between Regent Street and Oxford Street in the West End.Westminster Council said the work will make ...
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NewsPerfectHome accelerates expansion
Rent-to-buy specialist PerfectHome is ramping up its store expansion as cash-strapped shoppers drive sales.
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NewsGermany’s Butlers plots UK comeback
German homewares retailer Butlers, which offloaded all but one of its UK shops last year, is gearing up to open a tranche of new stores.
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OpinionNow we need real action on service charges
It’s not the most glamorous of subjects, but service charge is one of the areas where retailers have been paying through the nose for decades. Finally, it seems, landlords are willing to have a serious conversation about it.Retailers will delight in any plan to save them money in these tight ...
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NewsAsda to build its largest store in Northern Ireland
Supermarket retailer Asda has been given the nod to build what will be its largest store in Northern Ireland after nearly three years of awaiting a planning decision.Asda will now develop the 54,000 sq ft store at a cost of £25m at outlet centre Junction One in Antrim.The decision to ...
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NewsSpecsavers relocates Leeds store
Optician Specsavers is to relocate its store in Leeds into a unit double the size of its existing city centre shop.
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NewsCardiff's St David's 2 shopping centre adds raft of new retailers
Land Securities and Capital Shopping Centres have added a major wave of retailers to the St David’s 2 shopping centre in Cardiff, taking the scheme to nearly 55 per cent let.
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NewsNew Look signs for Southgate in Bath
New Look has signed up for a store at the Southgate development in Bath.
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NewsNew website highlights business impact of empty rates
The British Property Federation has launched a website highlighting the impact empty property rates have on businesses.
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NewsRetailers and landlords join forces to cut service charges
A consortium of some of the country’s top retailers and landlords has produced guidelines for landlords laying out ways they can cut retailers’ service charge bills by up to 20 per cent.
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Gap signs for first store in Republic of Ireland
US fashion retailer Gap has signed for its first store in the Republic of Ireland, in Dundrum Town Centre shopping centre in Dublin.
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AnalysisQuantity as well as quality
Bath has a strong high-end retail offer but always lacked the larger units demanded by the big high street chains. Ben Cooper finds out how a new centre will provide for the middle market
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Opinion
Welcome relief on costs
Tuesday’s unexpected but very welcome deferral of the proposed 5 per cent rates rise was not the only good news in retail property this week.For several months Retail Week has been reporting on all sorts of argy-bargy between retailers and landlords.But representatives of the two groups, spearheaded by Arcadia and ...
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Opinion
BPF launches website to fight Government over empty rates
The British Property Federation (BPF) has piled more pressure on the Government over the empty property relief laws by launching a website to raise awareness of its campaign.
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Government defers 5% business rates rise
Chancellor Alistair Darling has modified plans to increase business rates by 5 per cent tomorrow.
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Opinion
Quarter day: So far so good
This time a week ago, my inbox was buzzing with emails from lawyers, surveyors, agents and more all predicting a rout in the coming weeks as retailers broke their backs to pay this quarter’s rent. Seven days later, and despite the fear, landlords are making very positive noises.
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Council offers free parking on high street
Kensington and Chelsea Council is offering free parking to shoppers every Saturday in April.
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Three more retailers on board at St David's 2
Three retailers have signed up for space at St David’s 2 in Cardiff.
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Jessops wins concessions on swathe of properties
Jessops renegotiated rental terms with half its landlords by Wednesday’s quarterly rent day, which was the retail sector’s toughest payment day in 18 years.
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AnalysisMiddle East gets snared by the slowdown
It’s been one of the development wonders of recent years, but the Middle East’s retail property market has come unstuck