Theme parks and attractions such as Alton Towers and Madame Tussauds are big business in the UK, with visitors pushing up profits year on year as they attempt to fill their leisure time. Now the UK is set to gain another themed attraction with a modern twist,... Read More
As reported earlier this year, train stations are becoming key areas for retailers to open outlets due to the high level of passing trade and sales turnover. This has made the upcoming Canary Wharf Crossrail Station a lucrative location for many well-known... Read More
Realis Estates has offered reassurances that the City Sentral scheme will go ahead following reports that the developer is heavily in debt. The multi million pound retail and leisure development was due to open in 2015 but a lack of progress has led to... Read More
Jamaica Inn hotel — Cornwall’s legendary coaching house immortalised in Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name — is being sold for £2m. Included in the price is the desk on which the novelist wrote Rebecca and several of her other... Read More
Turkington Holdings — which made a loss of more than £25m in 2012 — has continued its sell-off strategy with the £2m disposal of a Northern Ireland leisure park. The sale of Eastpoint Leisure Park, near Dundonald, for around £2.2m is the latest... Read More
According to data released by Deloitte earlier this week, the UK hotels market has rebounded strongly since the end of the financial crisis, with the value of transactions skyrocketing in the second half of 2013. The Shard's Shangri-La Hotel will open... Read More
One of Newcastle’s most iconic properties — built to symbolise the regeneration of the city’s Quayside — is on the market with a £6.6m price tag. The glass-fronted Pitcher and Piano pub and restaurant, originally commissioned in 1995 by the... Read More
A rash of high-value commercial transactions has confirmed New Zealand’s emergence from the global property downturn with total sales for 2013 at a six year high. “The recovery is being reflected across all sectors of our business. The market is... Read More
Ireland’s tourism and hospitality industries are reflecting the country’s financial upturn with more than £116m worth of hotel deals either sealed or underway. Within the past few months sales have been agreed on 15 hotels, together worth €96m ,... Read More
Birmingham office, retail and leisure development The Mailbox has recently signed a contract with Everyman Cinemas. Under the new agreement, the cinema operator will open a three-screen, 12,000 square foot cinema late next year. The Mailbox's owners,... Read More
