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UK retail sales: a big wobble
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for July from the ONS, which weren’t good by any stretch.
7 days ago
Retail sales: Happy Days?
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for June from the ONS, which once again defied macro-economic gravity.
One month ago
Retail real estate: back on the shopping list
This week’s Retail Note references Knight Frank’s newly-released ‘Retail Investment Update’, which analyses investment in all types of retail property in H1 2023.
One month ago
Boots and WH Smith: overdue housekeeping
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the true implications of two high street stalwarts seemingly downsizing their respective physical footprints.
2 months ago
Retail sales downturn: waiting for Godot?
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for May from the ONS, which surprised on the upside – yet again.
2 months ago
Retrofit or Rebuild? M&S and the battle to greenify retail property
Penned by my esteemed colleague Emma Barnstable, this week’s Retail Note focusses on M&S’ plans to redevelop its Marble Arch flagship store and the ESG hornets’ nest this has stirred up. In a…
One year ago
Retail: Two Years on from COVID
This week’s Retail Note references a new Knight Frank Research piece and infographic on the Retail market two years on from the initial COVID-19 outbreak. It challenges some of the widely held views…
One year ago

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This week’s Retail Note focuses on the collapse of Wilko and why this is not your typical retailer administration and what chances there are for the business to be salvaged.
14 days ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on Knight Frank’s UK Retail Monitor for Q2 2023. A first half that anyone in retail would have taken at the turn of the year.
21 days ago
Making sense of the latest trends in property and economics from around the globe
23 days ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on Michael Gove’s highly controversial decision to reject M&S’ proposals to redevelop its Marble Arch flagship on Oxford Street.
One month ago
This week’s Retail Note addresses the issue of inflation and presents the somewhat contrarian view that it is not necessarily all bad for the retail sector.
2 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the official retail sales figures for April from the ONS, which once again surprised on the upside.
3 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on Knight Frank’s Central London Retail Dashboard and assesses the relative health of retail in the capital – and tries not to wade too far into the ‘Oxford Street vs…
3 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on Knight Frank’s UK Retail Monitor for Q1 2023. While the metrics are not universally positive, the outcome for the retail sector was infinitely better than virtually…
3 months ago
This week’s Retail Note focuses on retail occupier distress and fall-out in the year to date – such as there has been any at all.
3 months ago
With the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards set to tighten by 2030, we estimate that as much as 70% of commercial property space could be at risk of non-compliance.
3 months ago