Foot smart and fancy free!
This is the first of many guest blogs (I hope!) that will address specific issues that relate to data, technology and the retail and leisure sectors & places. This first one is
Are footfall stats as relevant and significant as they once used to be?
Footfall has been a key health barometer for shopping locations but in light of the changing purpose of our shopping places and the rise of leisure uses is it as significant as it
Has Rotherham turned a corner?
There has been lots of media interest around Mary Portas’ visit to Rotherham recently and it appears that great things have been happening there with the town team. In light of a
Are estate agents recession proof?
You may or may not have seen some numbers I ran for Deidre Hipwell of The Times article yesterday on estate agents. Now you would think that with a recession and house price crash
What happened to all those shops that went into administration?
Over the last few months Deloitte and their data scientists have worked with our data on looking at what happened to the shops of the top 27 administrations that took place. The re
Who owns UK property? Not who you might think!
I am fortunate to be a member of the Investment Property Forum, which is an organization, like a club, that only allows membership after you have been vetted as ‘suitable’. It�
The comings and goings of our shopping and leisure destinations!
Time flies and so I have to apologise for not getting this to you all quicker. You may or may not have seen that we published some data around openings and closures of retail and l
A new era of retailing.
The sentence above is one that has been common in the last two years and most recently it was used by Philip Clarke (CEO Tesco) at Retail Week Live to describe the journey Tesco is
Green shoots in the auction room!
Yesterday I attended the Acuitus/IPD auctions update for 2013. It was a very interesting morning that showed the renewed appetite of investors to enter the market but the issue of
Business rates – tax or subsidy?
This week has seen another report on our high streets, this one from Ken Shuttleworth (The Gherkin architect) and others along with the BIS Select Committee stating that business r