All articles by Sean McAllister – Page 7

  • Markets

    Three bags full

    25 January 2008

    Three former agents have defied market conditions to set up retail specialist BWD.

  • Markets

    All Saints goes marching in

    25 January 2008

    After three decades of development drought, West Bromwich faces a brighter future with Stoford Developments’ All Saints office park.

  • Markets

    Birmingham City Uni enrols for £130m Eastside campus

    25 January 2008

    University to consolidate 16 campuses into three, including a new 400,000 sq ft site

  • Online

    20-30-40-50

    18 January 2008

    Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Sean McAllister meets Gemma Bushell, 31, part-time fire juggler with a social conscience

  • Online

    20-30-40-50

    11 January 2008

    Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Sean McAllister meets Neil Edginton, 29, the Mailbox man and serial night-school student

  • Markets

    Mid-league performance

    21 December 2007

    Midlands retail is now in the premier league, and is driving other markets.

  • Vicky Shaw
    Online

    20-30-40-50

    14 December 2007

    Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Sean McAllister meets Vicky Shaw , 31, a Bollywood dancer and aspiring travel writer

  • Online

    20-30-40-50

    07 December 2007

    Each week we meet a property character from a different age bracket. Today, Sean McAllister meets Rafael Lopez-Pardos , 27, a legal eagle who has an aversion to getting a tomato in the face

  • Bognor standards : the chic East Beach Café, Littlehampton
    Markets

    Bognor reaches out

    23 November 2007

    Developers hope a £500m facelift will lift Bognor Regis out of its jokey image.

  • On the map: Nelson Mandela cut the ribbon at the opening of Soweto’s largest shopping mall to date
    Insight

    Talk of the township

    16 November 2007

    A new 2m sq ft shopping mall in Soweto signals the township’s growing importance as a retail destination.

  • So good : Soweto has emerged as a community in which wealthy blacks who live in ‘matchbox’ houses are now aspiring to suburban homes
    Insight

    Township revolution

    16 November 2007

    The township of Soweto shows that prosperity can emerge from a violent and poverty-stricken past.

  • Fan zone: a new 70,000-seat stadium will be constructed at Durban
    Insight

    Golden goal

    16 November 2007

    The 2010 football World Cup promises untold riches for the host nation

  • Insight

    Diamond life

    16 November 2007

    A wealthy class of black South Africans has emerged from the townships to drive the country’s retail economy.

  • Dock of the bay: the £600m purchase of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront put South Africa on the investment map
    News

    World beater

    Global November 2007

    South Africa’s commercial property is outperforming the rest of the world on the crest of a stable economy and now a certain sporting triumph. Sean McAllister reports from Cape Town

  • Online

    General Growth Properties plots expansion

    2007-11-08T09:50:00Z

    US REIT General Growth Properties is planning to add 22,000 residential units, 4.67m sq ft of office space and more than 9,000 hotel rooms to its retail portfolio across the States as part of its ‘densification’ strategy.

  • Geldof addressing the BCSC yesterday
    Online

    Geldof speaks at BCSC

    2007-11-08T09:24:00Z

    Sir Bob Geldof has called on the property industry to invest in Africa.

  • Online

    Consumers weary of ‘green’ marketing

    2007-11-06T15:44:00Z

    A consumer backlash has started against retailers and brands that appear to be jumping on the ‘green’ bandwagon, according to research from Viewpoint.

  • V good: Dandara’s resi tower will have sky lounge
    Markets

    The market in minutes - West Midlands

    02 November 2007

    Sean McAllister gives you the lowdown on all the sectors across the region

  • Shop talk : Mike Ingall, Allied London – ‘invest in promotion’
    News

    Future shop

    Retail and Leisure November 2007

    Property Week and BCSC hosted a no-holds-barred conference into what retail property needs to do in the next 10 years and got short shrift from retailers.

  • Markets

    Uproar over Severn Trent’s Coventry move

    02 November 2007

    Advantage West Midlands slated over relocation