By: Helen Cahill

I report on retail and property for City A.M. I have covered the investigation into BHS and London's housing crisis. You can email me on helen.cahill@cityam.com with tips or commentary.

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Black Friday wasn’t quite the sales boost retailers may have expected

December 6, 2016

Black Friday wasn't quite the spending boom that retailers were expecting. Figures from KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) show that like-for-like UK retail sales increased 0.6 per cent in November. Read more: Piccadilly Line delays likely to continue until after Christmas, TfL admits And, although non-food sales increased around 40 per cent on [...]
Invesco Real Estate and Aareal Bank AG agree a lending facility of up to €1bn

December 5, 2016

Invesco Real Estate and Aareal Bank AG have agreed a loan facility of up to €1bn over a 10 year period, one of the biggest loans sealed in the real estate sector this year. The loan will be used to grow Invesco Real Estate's European portfolio, which already comprises €3bn worth of investments, and it can be [...]
Pret-phobia: Londoners are not happy with the lunch options available to them

December 5, 2016

Londoners are not happy with their lunch options. According to research from lunch platform MealFix, 40 per cent of us are getting sick of what's being served up on the high street. Having a Pret on every corner is starting to get Londoners down, with a third of us feeling guilty about buying lunch from [...]
House prices are already shooting up along the Elizabeth line

December 5, 2016

Property prices along the much-anticipated Elizabeth line – formerly known as Crossrail – are already shooting up. Average house prices near the stations along the route have up gone up by 22 per cent over the last two years, according to research by Lloyds Bank, even though the line won't be fully-functioning until the end [...]
This is why Purplebricks’ share price is up 20 per cent

December 5, 2016

Purplebricks' share price has shot up 19 per cent this morning after the company announced a total revenue growth of 159 per cent. The figures The estate agents reported a UK gross profit of £10.2m for the six months ending 31 October, up from £4.1m during the same period last year. UK revenues grew from [...]
Binned merger deal boosts Burberry’s share price

December 5, 2016

Burberry group's share price is up by two per cent this morning after it emerged the company turned down a merger deal with its US rival. The British fashion chain received an approach from Coach, but binned a deal that valued the company at over $20bn, according to the Financial Times. Read more: Burberry profits fall [...]
Cost of the Christmas shop will be lower than it was three years ago

December 5, 2016

Despite the worries about rising prices post-Brexit, the family Christmas shop is set to be cheaper this year than it was three years ago. Figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Nielsen showed that shop prices fell 1.7 per cent in November; the same level of deflation reported the month before. Read more: Chilly weather's [...]
This housing chief thinks EU regulation protecting newts is holding back housebuilders

December 4, 2016

Housebuiding in the UK is being held back by newts and other animals protected by EU regulation, one leading housebuilder has said. John Tutte, chief executive of housebuilder Redrow, has said that "we haven't got a shortage" of great-crested newts. But, due to shortages in places such as Spain, the amphibians are protected by EU [...]
Private equity groups circle Oasis, Warehouse and Coast

December 4, 2016

Private equity groups are reportedly interested in buying up fashion brands Warehouse, Oasis and Coast, also known as the Aurora Fashion Group. The group recently appointed PwC to conduct a "strategic review" for the business, and is thought to be seeking a sale worth £100m. Read more: MPs pay surprise visit to Sports Direct's Shirebrook warehouse [...]
BHS pensions lifeboat fights ballooning bill from administrators Duff & Phelps

December 4, 2016

The BHS pensions lifeboat has vetoed an invoice put forward by the collapsed retailer's administrators, Duff & Phelps. Duff & Phelps initially estimated a fee of £3.5m for its work on BHS, but later increased its fee to £4.1m. In a meeting of creditors on 15 November, the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) – BHS' largest creditor [...]

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