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What can you do with an empty department store? It is a question vexing landlords and local authorities up and down the land. Over the past few years, a slew [...]

Every REIT throughout Europe has its property assets regularly revalued by independent assessors, and publishes the results for all to see. Investors know what they are buying into, and share [...]

Dearly departed The year got off to a bad start when news broke that Marco Fiori, joint owner and managing director of the iconic Fino's wine bar in Mayfair, had [...]

In January 2016, commercial real estate asset management, leasing and marketing platform VTS opened a London office as part of ambitious international expansion plans. When the proptech company announced the [...]

Kajima was founded in the 1800s by a Japanese carpenter and rapidly grew into one of Japan's largest property construction and development businesses. Today, the company has a global footprint [...]

In a trading update last month, Palace Capital posted a set of impressive financial numbers. The REIT announced it had boosted investor dividends as earnings and profits are anticipated to [...]

Big box DIY giant B&Q is starting to think small. The chain has historically been known for its large out-of-town units offering a wide range of home improvement products - [...]

What a difference a day makes. On Monday last week, many companies were making the final preparations to return to the office. Most had followed guidance from health and safety [...]

The clock is ticking. By 2050, the UK government hopes to have achieved net-zero-carbon status. While it is a highly ambitious target, it is achievable. However, companies have to act [...]

Until late last year, the second-tier Chinese city of Wuhan on the banks of the Yangtze River was little known outside Asia. One factor that made the otherwise unremarkable city [...]

In the mid-1900s, EMI set up the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) at The Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes, west London. The world's largest producer and exporter of vinyl records wanted [...]

Dover is open for business. That's the message the local district council wants to get across to the property industry. For many years, the coastal town has been a place [...]

In the new academic year, domestic student numbers more or less returned to normal levels and the number of international students bounced back strongly--although they haven't yet returned to pre-pandemic [...]

Valuation is tricky at the best of times, During a pandemic, it is nigh on impossible, Yet this is the challenge that all valuers have had to grapple with over [...]

New York City has a problem. Over the past 100 years, the sea level in New York Harbour has risen by 1ft. It may not sound a lot, but it [...]

When you think of the most famous music studios in the world, which names spring to mind? Abbey Road in London, made famous by the Beatles? Sun Studio in Memphis, [...]

Biggest non-event The year began in anticipation of Brexit and ended in anticipation of Brexit. First it was going to happen in March. Then it was expected in October - [...]

Flexible office providers in Leeds have had little difficulty attracting local business and start-ups. Over the last 18 to 24 months, a number of regional and national operators have set [...]

Retail moves with the times Insight It is just over a month until Christmas and retailers will be hoping for a bumper final quarter to make up for a year [...]

On the corner of Post and Kearny in downtown San Francisco there is a 1,750 sq ft grocery store. To the untrained eye, it looks pretty normal. The store sells [...]

It has been a long time coming, but the BTR sector is now gaining a foothold in Yorkshire. According to statistics from JLL, 29 sites capable of delivering more than [...]

The Extinction Rebellion protests last month brought huge swathes of London to a standstill and dominated the headlines, even pushing Brexit down the agenda for a few days. Many politicians [...]

When Channel 4 announced in 2018 that it was searching for a new national headquarters outside London, it kickstarted an intensive bidding competition. The broadcaster received more than 30 pitches [...]

Industry still bullish about future despite uncertainty On the face of it, you would expect property professionals to feel pretty gloomy at the moment. Real estate investment volumes fell significantly [...]

To the untrained eye, Roeselare - a small Belgian city in the province of West Flanders - is fairly unremarkable. On a midweek morning in February its streets are relatively [...]

When Jeremy Rainbird and Piers Read started telling people around five years ago they were on a 'crusade' to professionalise and modernise the UK film production industry, the response was [...]

In September, Brunswick Property Partners (BPP) unveiled Akoya, a new workspace venture with designs on building a portfolio of assets in London topping [pounds sterling]1bn in value. When it launched, [...]

When Boris Johnson announced the nationwide lockdown in March, Muse Developments managing director Matt Crompton decamped to the Dock Bar in Manchester with the team from the company's Salford office [...]

Earlier this month, in the latest in the Yardi Think Tank series, Property Week contributing editor Simon Creasey chaired a discussion with key figures in the UK build-to-rent sector on [...]

The medieval city of York in West Yorkshire has a lot going for it. Its rich history is a big draw for domestic and international tourists, it has excellent transport [...]

After the global financial crisis, the flexible workspace sector took off like a rocket. Companies forced to downsize their workforces and start-ups launched by people who had been made redundant [...]

Mecessity is the mother of invention and during the lockdown, office agents are having to be more inventive than ever. One challenge they have risen to with particular gusto is [...]

In a 40-year career, property industry stalwart Ian Kitchen has encountered his fair share of recessions. Each one has differed, but the one common factor is that at the end [...]

Property Week has occupied its fair share of less than brilliant office space. One such building, which the magazine called home in the early 2000s, was Anchorage House, affectionately referred [...]

It is one of the UK's fastest-growing property companies. It has built up a commercial property portfolio worth almost [pounds sterling]900m and is now poised to punch through the [pounds [...]

Few investment sectors are as hot as the Yorkshire and Humber real estate market at the moment. According to data released by proptech firm Datscha last month, the region attracted [...]

Simon Creasey reports Wembley Stadium is the most iconic sports stadium in the world. The home of English football and arguably the spiritual home of global football, its famous twin [...]

Simon Creasey reports Doncaster town centre is open for business. That's the message Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council wants to get across to the property industry. The council is bringing forward [...]

Historically, the sheds sector was viewed as being a bit of an ugly duckling compared with offices and retail property - particularly in investment circles. However, over the past few [...]

In grocery circles, the big talking point for a long time has been whether the big four could one day become the big three. Many analysts thought it an inevitability, [...]

Few property sectors are as hot as co-working/flexible workspace at the moment. As well as global co-working behemoths like WeWork aggressively gobbling up office space, there are a growing number [...]

It's rare that cities report record levels of office lettings activity. It's rarer still to find examples of cities in close proximity to one another that achieve record years at [...]

This weekend the great and the good of the movie industry will descend on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, for the 90th Academy Awards. The red carpet will [...]

The UK economy has endured a rollercoaster 12 months due to Brexit. But despite the turmoil, the UK agency sector has held firm, according to Property Week's latest annual agency [...]

A decade or so ago, if a property developer used the word 'community', more often than not it was referring to the people and businesses located in the area surrounding [...]

Now sad Gani knows a good opportunity when he sees one. In the early 1990s, he was working as a conveyancing solicitor when the recession kicked in and work suddenly [...]

Across the UK, there are vast swathes of empty sub-5,000 sq ft offices. The problem is even more acute in London, where it is estimated that such space accounts for [...]

The traditional office lease model is dead. That is the view of Grant Powell, chief executive at flexible workspace operator Central Working. Powell knows a thing or two about leases. [...]

From an early age, Basil Demeroutis liked to tinker with things. He loved taking items apart and then reassembling them to see how they worked. It almost got him into [...]

When news broke last week that department store chain Debenhams had been acquired by its lenders in a pre-pack deal, Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley was apoplectic. Ashley--who had invested [...]