Ireland-based fast fashion retailer Primark will open its first Maryland store on September 7 at Arundel Mills mall, according to Retail Insight Network. Fibre2Fashion reports that the Primark space at Arundel Mills is 36,000sf. CoStar quotes Kevin Tulip, Primark’s United … Continue reading →
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are regulations requiring a minimum energy efficiency standard to be met before properties in England and Wales can be leased or sold. The standards are measured by an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating. According to … Continue reading →
A district judge in England has ordered Donelan Trading Ltd. to rebuild an 18th century pub building within 12 months and using the stones from the demolition rubble, according to The Washington Post. A trial last year at Burnley Magistrates’ … Continue reading →
A new study by Watling and Breach finds that Britain’s housing shortage began at the beginning of the post-war period, not at its conclusion. England and Wales saw housebuilding rates drop by a third after the introduction of the Town … Continue reading →
Signed on March 8, 2018 in Santiago de Chile, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is a free trade agreement between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam (the UK … Continue reading →
According to the IEA, the buildings and construction sector accounted for 36 percent of final energy use and 39 percent of energy and process-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2018, 11 percent of which resulted from manufacturing building materials and … Continue reading →
In its quarterly UK commercial property survey for Q4-2022, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) reports that 83 percent of its respondents consider market conditions to be consistent with a downturn; 49 percent still consider this downturn to be … Continue reading →
Italian marketplace/food hall chain Eataly has leased 18,353sf of retail space at 200 Lafayette for its third Manhattan location, according to the New York Post. The asking rent for the space, which was previously occupied by luxury appliance showroom Pirch, … Continue reading →
In recent weeks, UK office occupancy rates were around 30 percent, compared with an estimated pre-pandemic average of 80 percent, according to Reuters (citing data from Remit Consulting). In central London, 2.6 million square feet of space was leased in … Continue reading →
The current Bank of England base interest rate—the rate that largely determines mortgage interest rates—is 2.25 percent. This week, the average interest rates for two and five-year fixed rate mortgages topped six percent for the first time in over a … Continue reading →