The chain has become the latest high street casualty and will be liquidated in the New Year after rescue talks with JD Sport fell through, drawing a line under 242 years of trading and jeopardizing 12,000 jobs. This is catastrophic for our high streets which relied on…
Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia retail empire has fallen into administration with 13,000 jobs and hundreds of stores at risk, making the Topshop owner the UK’s biggest corporate failure of the coronavirus crisis so far. What does this mean for our high streets? Its simple and the news…
During the course of last year, the High Streets were decimated. Major national multiple retailers including Debenhams, Peacocks, Jaeger, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Mothercare, Beales, TM Lewin, Carphone Warehouse, Cath Kidston, Oasis, Warehouse, Oliver Sweeney, Evans, Brighthouse, DW Sports, J Crew and Feather…
The pandemic has led to the collapse and permanent disappearance of many household high street retail names. In addition to this, others have gone into administration and been forced to close a large number of their shops, reduce staff numbers and generally scale back to…
The high street will never be the same again. A wave of retail failures has left the high streets decimated which has affected landlords who are struggling to collect rent from their tenants. What is the answer? The face of the high streets will change…
The first 3 months of 2013 are just about to pass and unfortunately it has only been bad news from the commercial property market and the retail industry. Let’s take a quick look at what has happened since the start of the year for commercial…
Commercial property agents still seem to be over-valuing property and giving their clients false hope. We receive hundreds of calls each month from people who tell us that they have had their properties valued by commercial property agents who 18 months later, have failed to…
If you want to sell your property in London, now is the time to act. Central London is still experiencing a mini boom although some say this is coming to an end. However, the suburbs are a different story. Some places outside of central London…
Investing in commercial property in London has become a real art and it is becoming more difficult to predict where values will be in the future. If you own commercial property in central London, then you don’t need to worry, for at least another 1-2…
There has always been a myth about ground rents in that people think you can’t go wrong buying them and owners can literally name their price when selling them. Ground rents today are still desirable but many aspects of ground rent investments must be considered…