Survey: Outlook remains bleak for bricks and motor retail in Northern Ireland Almost two-thirds of respondents said demand for retail space continued to fall in the second quarter of 2021. 29 July, 2021 01:00
THE latest snapshot of the Northern Ireland commercial property sector has painted a bleak picture for bricks and motor retail.
Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of respondents to the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and Ulster Bank Commercial Property Market Survey reported demand for retail space continued to fall in the second quarter of 2021.
And despite a slight improvement from the first quarter, most property professionals reported that demand for office space continued to fall in the second quarter (Q2).
A FORMER drug user who suffered a massive brain injury after taking ‘legal highs’ says gardening has given him a new lease of life. Tom Fraser from Poole was just 21 when he collapsed after ingesting mephedrone, which was packaged as plant food and purchased legally from a shop. He stopped breathing for eight minutes and fell into a coma. After coming around he spent a gruelling two months in hospital learning to walk and talk again. Now, aged 32 and a father-of-four, Tom knows he is lucky to be alive. And he credits his current job as a gardener for the charitable housing association BCHA as giving him a future.
Publishing giant Pearson to vacate Belfast city centre headquarters Millennium House on Great Victoria Street, Belfast. 13 July, 2021 01:00
Former Invest NI boss Alastair Hamilton (centre) opening Pearson s finance services centre in Belfast during 2017 with the firm s Gareth Morgan and Suzanne Willmott.
PUBLISHING and education giant Pearson is to vacate its extensive office headquarters in Belfast city centre in favour of flexible workspace.
The former owner of the Financial Times officially opened a finance services centre in Belfast in 2017, in a move it said could eventually lead to the creation of 300 jobs.
The Invest NI-backed project saw the company sign up for just under 16,000 sq ft on the first floor of Millennium House next to the Europa on Great Victoria Street.
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