All Feedback articles – Page 26
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InsightThere are still physical ways we can help physical retail
Like it or not, there’s no simple solution for retail, as last week’s varied round of results showed.
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InsightMore than meets the eye with festive retail figures
It is generally recognised that the retail industry today is facing greater challenges than ever before, as the sector evolves to the rapidly changing consumer landscape.
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InsightFlexible office sector gives businesses what they want
The recent rumours around WeWork’s latest funding round and support from SoftBank do not take away from the fact that the flexible office space model is a direct response to the change in how businesses want to rent office space
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InsightBrexit: a boon not block to London investment in 2019
Figures last week from CBRE illustrate the huge scale of foreign investment in London commercial property over the last two decades right up to the present day.
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InsightOutlet centres: the changing face of modern-day retail in 2019?
According to Mike Ashley, the UK high street is “already dead”. By contrast outlet shopping continues to grow as the go-to shopping destination for modern consumers, so what the wider retail sector can learn from outlet shopping centres in 2019?
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ProfessionalTax and Brexit concerns create uncertainty heading into 2019
When considering the past year, ‘uncertainty’ has certainly been the watchword for those operating in the property and construction industry.
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InsightTread carefully if you’re averse to change
Your recent leader column brings to mind the Mark Twain quote: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
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InsightChallenge to ATM ruling will hit business ratepayers
The VOA’s decision to petition the Supreme Court for the right to appeal against a court ruling blocking its proposals to introduce additional business rates on ATMs in retail stores is hugely disappointing.
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InsightWe must stop scapegoating foreign housebuyers
The critical state of the UK’s housing market is widely recognised and debated by policymakers and yet policy to date has largely hindered the creation of new supply. Instead of addressing this fundamental problem, many consider the government’s actions on the issue in recent years to be scapegoating.
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InsightTraditional landlords can easily adapt to co-working
The past week has seen further evidence of the structural change in the office market, from traditional leased space to flexible and co-working alternatives.
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OnlineThe social housing shortfall will allow the government to back MMC
Housing crisis headlines focus overwhelmingly on rising prices keeping people off the property ladder, but seldom mention the scarcity of social housing which is leading to spiraling inequality across the country.
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InsightTulip could be fitting epilogue to London’s financial role
The latest new building proposed for London, to be known as The Tulip, could provide a fitting epilogue for London’s role in the financial markets.
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InsightHammond must rethink disastrous SDLT regime
The statistics that have emerged from the recent Budget confirm what our industry has long known: that Osborne’s stamp duty changes have been an unmitigated disaster.
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InsightFlexible offices need the human touch to thrive
As Liz Hamson wrote in her leader article last week, flexible office providers are expanding – and fast.
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InsightHas the delivery of new housing reached a plateau?
Last week’s new housing statistics from the Ministry of Housing, Communities Local Government may have gone slightly unnoticed coming on the same day as Theresa May outlined her proposed Brexit agreement to ministers, triggering a sharp fall in housebuilders’ share prices.
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InsightPhysical stores still have a role to play in retail
Revo’s latest report, Tomorrow’s World: Retail on the Line , and headlines such as ‘TK Maxx moves to Oxford Street’ corroborate our view that, although the nature of retailing and the use of physical space as part of a retailer’s business model are undoubtedly changing, shops are still critical to ...
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InsightHigh street retailers can benefit from ‘bricks to clicks’
Amazon’s ‘try before you buy’ fashion service, which launched in the form of a central London pop-up shop on Baker Street last month, is further proof that this retailer is increasingly aware of what it’s missing out on by not having a physical presence on the UK’s high street.
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InsightLetwin’s right - we need to mix it up
Potentially lost alongside the Autumn Budget, which saw the chancellor announce a glut of new government spending measures with his eyes still firmly on Brexit, was the final part of Oliver Letwin’s independent review into build-out rates in Britain.
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InsightReform could make leasehold work for all parties
As Steve Norris notes in his recent comment article, the property industry has acknowledged that leasehold has genuine problems and many have taken steps to change that.
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InsightBrexit casts a shadow over Budget’s proposals
As Property Week ’s Budget coverage highlighted, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) mildly upgraded its growth forecasts and now expects the UK economy to grow at 1.6% in 2019, up from the 1.3% spring forecast.
