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Investments in shopping centers in the United Kingdom fell nearly 75% in 2008 according to the latest report Cushman and Wakefield. Before the credit crisis took its toll of UK property retailing is experiencing a growth cycle boom year 2004 was a record year for investment in UK commercial centers. However, the economic downturn has resulted in a record number of shops and retail premises were left to collect dust in areas which were once busy high street shopping.

Welsh and cities of the West Midlands appear to be most affected by this decline. A growing number of retailers engage in the administration in areas such as Holyhead and Milford Haven in Wales and Chelmsley Wood in the West Midlands and there will be many businesses and commercial properties left empty because of the slowdown traffic and consumer spending. Milford Haven already has a vacancy rate of 30% and Chelmsley Wood in the West Midlands to 28% of its stores being vacated. Despite these large numbers already vacant Experian predicts that both will see a further decline in 2009. Similar effects in occupancy levels are commercial property should be visible in retail parks where due to the loss of the MFI and the Land of leather, and other leading high street brands occupancy rates should fall to about 30%.

News for the malls and commercial premises retail is not so catastrophic for the United Kingdom, however. Plans to achieve a major development for mixed use on the seafront of Brighton in Sussex have been restarted by Standard Life Investments, after being shelved last year because of adverse market conditions. Plans include significant expansion of the Churchill Square Shopping Center and recreational facilities of other developments. The huge investment and development will transform this area of Brighton and we hope to create a new focal point on the magnificent dam.

Towards the end of 2009 in the UK retail investment real estate business should begin to increase again especially in species-rich buyers. They have a diet rich in Bargains commercial property available to them because of declining values and prices of properties of many real estate.


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