2008 the year ahead
Miller, Charles
2008 the year ahead - 2008 - Property Week 73(1) 4 January 2008, 20-23(4) .
Analysis and opinion article considers the prospects for 2008. In retail, fourteen large shopping centres are due to open and the weakening market should provide greater opportunity for retailers in the US and Europe. Supermarkets should also profit, but furniture and DIY stores may be hit. Predicts slow growth in the office sector in regional cities, with London under pressure outside the West End. The green agenda will be all-important. Empty rates liability will have a devastating impact on the industrial market in April, with speculative development falling. Investors are only expected to be interested by real bargains.
RATING (EMPTY PROPERTIES) ACT 2007
United Kingdom--
2008 the year ahead - 2008 - Property Week 73(1) 4 January 2008, 20-23(4) .
Analysis and opinion article considers the prospects for 2008. In retail, fourteen large shopping centres are due to open and the weakening market should provide greater opportunity for retailers in the US and Europe. Supermarkets should also profit, but furniture and DIY stores may be hit. Predicts slow growth in the office sector in regional cities, with London under pressure outside the West End. The green agenda will be all-important. Empty rates liability will have a devastating impact on the industrial market in April, with speculative development falling. Investors are only expected to be interested by real bargains.
RATING (EMPTY PROPERTIES) ACT 2007
United Kingdom--