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"The UK commercial property market is crashing", (see national press articles below)

Future of Aquascutum in doubt (Financial Times - 23rd May 2009)

UK commerical property's horror show could get worse (Daily Telegraph - 22nd May 2009)

Clintons puts Birthdays into administration (Daily Telegraph - 22nd May 2009)

Bay Trading heads for administration, 1,000 jobs at risk (Daily Telegraph - 24th April 2009)

Attention to detail at heart of retail sector restructuring (Financial Times - 4th April 2009)

Dr China joins list of high street casualties (Property Week - 3rd April 2009)

Need to know: Porsche sales fall ... Visteon job cuts ... Sportingbet deal (The Times- 1st April 2009)

False hopes that recovery is around the corner (The Times - 29th March 2009)

Canary Wharf loan breach fears grow (The Times - 27th March 2009)

Retail in brief: JJB Sports; Moss Bros; Hennes & Mauritz; Hugo Boss (The Times - 27th March 2009)

UK recession is worse than forecast (The Times - 27th March 2009)

UK retail sales worsen in March (Financial Times - 25th March 2009)

Harvey Nichols hit by recession (The Times - 20th March 2009)

Ghost high streets drain life from towns (The Times - 20th March 2009)

JJB mulls options over restructuring (Daily Telegraph - 17th March 2009)

Rental bill could push significant number of retailers over the edge, says BRC (Daily Telegraph - 15th March 2009)

Jeweller goes into admin (Property Week - 13th March 2009)

Stores tell landlords to get real (The Times - 1st March 2009)

JJB Sports fails to sell two brands (Property Week - 13th February 2009)

Threshers owner to close 400 stores (Daily Telegraph - 22nd January 2009)

Housebuilder on the brink as talks with lenders fail (Daily Telegraph - 22nd January 2009)

Demise of West End hurts Great Portland (Daily Telegraph - 22nd January 2009)

Barratts and Priceless shoes seeks creditor lifeline (Daily Telegraph - 21st January 2009)

Thousands of UK jobs go in bleak day for economy (Daily Telegraph - 13th January 2009)

Land of Leather in admin (Property Week - 15th January 2009)

Jeweller poised for admin (Property Week - 15th January 2009)

Land of Leather falls into administration (Property Week - 12th January 2009)

Sofa Workshop on brink of administration (Property Week - 9th January 2009)

Zavvi closes 22 shops (Property Week - 8th January 2009)

Holiday mood is not enough to deliver retail therapy (Financial Times - 5th January 2009)

Retail gloom as maternity chain falters (Daily Telegraph - 4th January 2009)

Bid hopes not enough to keep Hammerson (Daily Telegraph - 4th January 2009)

USC in administration: Sir Tom Hunter buys 43 stores (Daily Telegraph - 2nd January 2009)

800 jobs go as owner of Klick Photopoint goes into administration (The Herald - 19th December 2008)

Retailers suffer worst trading conditions for 25 years (Daily Telegraph - 18th December 2008)

Carpetright reveals profit slump and dividend slash as retailers find it tough (Property Week - 16th December 2008)

Wilting Orchid leaves 1,200 pub jobs in jeopardy (The Times - 16th December 2008)

Texstyle World, Fads and Leveys go into administration (Property Week - 15th December 2008)

High street faces worst outlook since 1965 (The Times - 9th December 2008)

RICS warns commercial property slump worse than 70s (Property Week - 8th December 2008)

High street sales slump underlines UK's economic woes (Daily Telegraph - 6th December 2008)

A thousand businesses collapse in trading gloom (Daily Telegraph - 1st December 2008)

John Lewis feels knock-on from retailer's collapse (Financial Times - 1st December 2008)

Bleak outlook on blackest of Black Fridays (The Times - 1st December 2008)

Focus seeks rent relief from landlords (Financial Times - 29th November 2008)

Shoppers desert high street to log on to internet bargains (Daily Telegraph - 30th November 2008)

Retailers brace for a tough Christmas (Financial Times - 29th November 2008)

Seeds of Woolworths’ demise sown long ago (Financial Times - 29th November 2008)

High-end brands find credit crisis is hard to wear (Financial Times - 28th November 2008)

Retail figures fuel fears of long recession (The Times - 27th November 2008)

Woolworths in talks to sell retail empire to rescue fund for £1 (The Times - 19th November 2008)

One in five shops could be closed by recession (Property Week - 10th November 2008)

Retail sales drop for first time in three years (The Times - 11th November 2008)

Independents’ doomsday (Property Week - 7th November 2008)

M&S to cut costs after profits fall 34 per cent (The Times - 4th November 2008)

Demand from occupiers falls at fastest rate in decade, says RICS (Property Week - 3rd November 2008)

Sales on the UK high street fall (Property Week - 28th October 2008)

Retailers batten down hatches as confidence worsens (Daily Telegraph - 23rd October 2008)

Insolvencies 'to rise 20pc' as number of court cases over unpaid bills soars (Daily Telegraph - 16th June 2008)

Insolvencies 'to rise 20pc' as number of court cases over unpaid bills soars (Daily Telegraph - 16th June 2008)

Toughest economic year since 1992, says CBI (Daily Telegraph - 16th June 2008)

High Street rents 'to fall 20pc' over three years (Daily Telegraph - 14th June 2008)

Britain faces deepest slump since 1990's (Daily Telegraph - 5th June 2008)

Recession fear as services sector falls (The Telegraph - 6th June 2008)

More retail insolvencies to come, says insurer (The Times - 4th June 2008)

MK One owner puts it into administration FT.com - 21st May 2008)

Jobs threat to 1,000 in DSG turnaround plan (The Times - 16th May 2008)

Prospects of cheaper loans hit as inflation forecast sends Libor soaring (The Times - 16th May 2008)

Mervyn King: Bank of England has no room for manoeuvre (The Times - 15th May 2008)

Bank chief Mervyn King raises spectre of British recession (The Times - 15th May 2008)

Repossession orders at record high as homeowners struggle (The Times - 14th May 2008)

Liberty International wipes £345m off property values (The Times - 8th May 2008)

House prices fall as bank predicts credit crunch will hit UK hardest (The Times - 1st May 2008)

Woolwich boosts rates and fees for buy-to-let landlords (The Times - 17th April 2008)

$5.1bn blow for JPMorgan and warning of more gloom (The Times - 17th April 2008)

Tempus: Tough exercise regime in store to cut the flab at JJB Sports (The Times - 17th April 2008)

Thousands to have usual credit lines cut off (The Times - 16th April 2008)

Unemployment looms large as crunch bites deep (The Times - 16th April 2008)

Mapeley reports £148.6 million writedown in commercial property slowdown (The Times - 18th March 2008)

Housing market: first-time buyers hit as lenders pull plug on all but the lowest-risk loans (The Times - 18th March 2008)

High street banks hold out their begging bowls(The Times - 18th March 2008)

Consumer gloom as Britain's spending power fails (The Times - 11th March 2008)

Economy feels the pinch as consumers tighten their purse-strings (The Times - 28 February 2008)

Select Retail chain goes into administration (The Times - 27th February 2008)

Rate dilemma for Bank as prices rise and retailers report falling sales
(The Times - 27th February 2008)

Hammerson chief warns of drop in commercial property prices (The Times - 26th February 2008)

UK housing market close to collapse, analyst says (The Times - 21st February 2008)

Retailers squeezed (Daily Mail - 18th February 2008)

House prices set to fall by 7% in next two years (The Times -13th February 2008)

Hopes of rate cut are dashed by inflation rise (The Times - 13th February 2008)

Britain 'facing huge job losses' (Sunday Times - 10th February 2008)

Commercial property slump sees British Land write off £1.39bn (The Times - 8th February 2008)

Tentacles of sub-prime crisis (The Times - 8th February 2008)

Regent profit goes up in smoke (The Times - 6th February 2008)

Poor lookout for homeowners losing £470 a month (Sunday Times 6th February 2008)

HIPs impact commercial property (6th February 2008)

Investors take record amount out of funds (The Independent - 29th January 2008)

ECONOMY WARNING (The Times - 28th January 2008)

Scared investors withdraw from funds (The Times - 28th January 2008)

US recession will trigger global slump (The Times - 24th January 2008)

End of Easy Money (The Times - 23rd January 2008)

Commercial property fund investors face continued slide in asset prices
(The Times - 23th January 2008)

Warning of more turmoil as investors flee markets (The Times - 22nd January 2008)

Mortgage fall signals bleak outlook for lenders (The Times - 22nd January 2008)

Dolcis crushed as fashion retailers stamp their authority on high street shoe market
(The Times - 22nd January 2008)

Property market reels as gloom descends on commercial and residential sectors
(The Times - 16th January 2008)

“2008 brings dark days for shopkeepers (Daily Mail - January 2008)

Property to deliver zero returns in 2008 (Daily Mail - January 2008)

Procession of the retail dead is set to be lengthy (Evening Standard - January 2008)

Property Market: Brace yourselves for the crash (The Telegraph - 4th January 2008)

First development decline in four years (Property Week - 12th December 2007)

Property being shaken to the foundations (The Times - 12th December 2007)

'Tens of millions' flow out of property funds (The Times - 12th December 2007)

Locked in the property fund trap (The Times - 2nd December 2007)

Schroders calls bottom of property market (The Times - 29th November 2007)

Commercial property braced for further falls (The Times - 17th November 2007)

Commercial property confidence worst since 2003 (The Times - 16th November 2007)

Those who piled into commercial property risk a shock (The Telegraph - 11th April 2007)