Shopping centre owner Liberty International reports a dramatic fall in the number of storekeepers going bust and says the retail market has “stabilised”... more
Shares in Britain’s two biggest package tour operators sink as investors worried that the pound’s woes could force some Brits to give up their week in the sun or on the slopes ... more
Property experts welcom proposals by Covent Garden owner Liberty International to split into two in one of the biggest corporate restructurings for the sector... more
Covent Garden market is booming, with footfall and tenant levels higher than a year ago and the picture expected to brighten even further when Apple moves in next year, owner Liberty International said ... more
Drugs giant AstraZeneca was showing the rest of the top 100 companies a clean pair of heels, spurred on by recommendations from two of the City’s biggest players... more
The future remains grim for the UK commercial property sector despite the strong rally in shares of leading developers since hitting a low point back in March ... more
Some of the confidence being shown by stock-market investors rubbed off on the England cricket team in the fifth and final Test at the Brit Oval... more
Shares in the UK’s only legal cannabis grower, GW Pharmaceuticals, stood out with a rise of 7p to 83p after successfully raising almost £7 million
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Mark Morris and Maurice Golker have a very big decision to make in the coming weeks. This virtually unknown pair of property investors control a major site in the City. They are on the verge of submitting plans for a huge office block on the 2.8 acres of land in EC3. But is building a huge office block a terribly bright idea right now?... more
HSBC has cast its expert eye over the real estate investment trust sector following a plethora of heavily discounted rights issues, running into billions of pounds, which have been launched recently to shore-up weakened balance sheets.... more
Stock-market bears, who have been selling the life assurers aggressively short in recent weeks, claiming they would be the next casualties of the banking crisis, were feeling the pain today as their shares soared.... more
Such has been the pace and the scale of the stock market sell-off since the start of the year that the profile of the benchmark FTSE 100 index is set for another major makeover... more
Property group Segro has launched a deeply discounted £500 million rights issue, becoming the latest — but not the last — property company to seek more cash from investors... more
British Land yesterday produced a set of third-quarter results that pretty much guarantees new chief executive Chris Grigg won't match the £948,000 bonus paid to his predecessor Stephen Hester last year.... more
Time is running out for Wolseley, the world's biggest plumbing-equipment supplier, which has been clobbered by the collapse in housing markets on both sides of the Atlantic.... more
BSkyB has boasted it is recession-proof, but not everyone in the City is convinced. That's why its shares took a pasting today, falling 19½p to 466½p to make it one of the worst-performing Footsie 100 stocks... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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