Former hotel in Helston now for sale with planning permission for residential development
Despite the continuing turmoil in the commercial property market there continues to be strong demand for self-catering businesses throughout Scotland. With consistent returns, this market appeals to both private owner-operators as well as group operators and national chains. The self-catering sector includes caravan parks, holiday lodge complexes and cottages. Most individual buyers are also looking for ...
It may have been turbulent, but 2011 was hardly the ‘annus horribilis’ for the pub trade that many either predicted or would lead you to believe. The market more than held its own. Parts of it, particularly the freehouse sector, positively thrived. Yes, in terms of property values, prices remained lower than their historic peak, and ...
Our Business Outlook 2012 reports that, despite the strains on the consumer purse, the increasing high-street presence of small-format supermarkets and the summer’s social unrest, the independent convenience retail sector continued to hold its own in 2011. According to Business Outlook 2012, which uses average price information derived from retail transactions brokered by Christie + Co, ...
According to our Business Outlook 2012, nursery occupancy improvements in January will be crucial for setting the tone for the rest of the year in the childcare and educations sectors. Like many other sectors, childcare and education was affected by the economic situation, and transactional activity particularly was hamstrung by an element of nervousness. In 2011, ...
Following their relative stability in 2010, average care property prices fell in 2011 in a transactional environment that was undermined by the ongoing economic crisis and the uncertainty caused by the Southern Cross situation. According to our Business Outlook 2012 publication, which uses average price information derived from care transactions brokered by Christie + Co, care ...
According to our Business Outlook 2012, consumers re-affirmed their appetite for eating and drinking away from home in 2011, despite the consistent strain on the purse-strings. The eating-out sector responded with an array of choice — all of which was good news for the diner. However, increasing competition, and price-competition, led many operators to struggle and ...
According to our Business Outlook 2012, the leisure sector demonstrated a continuing polarity of performance between nightclubs and the budget health and fitness arena in 2011 with value-for-money increasingly becoming the consumer-driver. Nightclubs endured another turbulent year, but difficult trading conditions can be overcome to a degree by out-of-the-box thinking. Nightclubs were hit more than most ...
According to our Business Outlook 2012 publication, average pub property prices stood relatively firm amidst 2011’s financial storm. Of equal significance is that more sold pubs are staying as pubs with the closure rate decelerating. Business Outlook 2012, which uses average price information derived from pub transactions brokered by Christie + Co, showed average prices decline ...
In our Business Outlook 2012 publication, we report that the lack of debt finance and the ongoing economic uncertainty in 2011 combined to repress a hotel sector which began 2011 with high hopes following a hint of recovery in 2010. According to our Business Outlook 2012, which uses average price information derived from hotel transactions brokered ...
Pharmacy sector should see increasing activity in 2012 after subdued year
According to our Business Outlook 2012, the pharmacy sector remained an oasis in a largely barren landscape in 2011. With the sector’s apparent immunity to the financial crisis, 2012 looks set to be a year of increasing activity, albeit against the backdrop of regulatory and legislative upheaval. The prevailing economic climate, compounded by the uncertain passage ...