Results

This week’s Retail Note focuses on Knight Frank’s Q4 2022 Retail Monitor. A turbulent quarter across the board, but thankfully one where the prevailing gloom is increasingly proving misguided.

This week’s Retail Note focuses on Knight Frank’s UK Retail Monitor for Q2 2023. A first half that anyone in retail would have taken at the turn of the year.

Bringing Clarity Through Insight

The second in a series of blogs by Neil McLocklin, Partner in Knight Frank's Strategic Consulting team, focussing on the fundamental changes that are occurring across Europe and the challenges that businesses face in this fast-paced, competitive and above all uncertain climate. 

As we’ve previously explored, new models of work are set to emerge in a post-Covid world of work. In this guide, we’ll explore the fundamentals of hybrid working, how you can map your employees to the hybrid framework, why profiling is a necessary tool in this process, and how this will help you transform your business.

This week’s Retail Note reflects on the horror that is Black Friday and analyses prospects for Christmas generally.

Whilst there wasn’t a huge amount targeting the built environment, many of the measures will have effects across the sector. We take stock below.

Despite headwinds, Europe stands as the largest destination for global cross-border capital in the first half of 2024. Private capital emerged as a crucial driver while the logistics and residential sectors remain prime targets for investors. The start of easing monetary policy provides a more conducive investment environment, making Europe well-positioned as a destination for cross-border capital.

Workplace wellbeing goes beyond material design concepts such as furniture and colour schemes; Giuseppe Boscherini, Head of Knight Frank's Workplace Consulting explores the model of salutogenesis, factors that support human health and how salutogenic workplace design can impact on staff creativity, morale, health and resilience to stress. 

Property economist Professor François Viruly tells Tilda Mwai why he thinks the Covid-19 pandemic could speed the adoption of real estate as a service across Africa.