Why Markets are so important for our towns and high streets
Traditional retailing in town centres has been in decline for over 20 years and this is reflected by an increase in empty shops, which in some areas might be as high as one in thre
Scoring Points – why property needs to embrace the power of data
Real estate is potentially the biggest untapped data source in the world. Firms accumulate billions of data points at every stage of the development lifecycle, from the breakdown o
Why we must reflect, re-energise and re-purpose as a society to ensure that the Coronavirus cloud has a silver lining.
Before the news of Covid19 came out of Wuhan, China we had started a new decade full of hope and varying degrees of optimism. The pace of change of the previous decade had been fas
Repurposing UK Department Stores
In January 2020 Quadrant and Eccleston Capital launched a new investment vehicle to repurpose redundant department stores. Matthew Hopkinson of Didobi was commissioned to write a t
Why we must understand the causes of issues on our high streets before addressing the effects.
Last week the BBC’s investigative journalism programme, Panorama, focussed on the UK High Street. ‘How to save the high street’ visited a number of towns including Stoc
What were the issues taxing the minds of Expo Real attendees?
Stephen Ryan attended Expo Real, the annual trade fair for Europe’s real estate sector, in Munich this week and shares what issues he came across from speaking with delegates