James Brown

Head of EMEA Retail Research and Consulting

james.brown@eu.jll.com

James is Head of EMEA Retail Research and Consulting at JLL. Working closely with Retail Research and Consulting colleagues across Europe, Middle East and Africa, James is responsible for coordinating and developing all retail research and client consulting needs, providing strategic advice on markets or retail real estate, for developers, investors, landlords and retailers.
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Blogs by  James

Redefining Retail Places: sentiment improves for European retail, but challenges linger

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Whilst high unemployment, particularly in the southern Eurozone combined with historically high levels of consumer debt in many European economies and the impact of fiscal consolidation represent real risk, on balance, the positives currently outweigh the negatives. Sustained economic growth, job creation, low inflation and the prospect of real wage growth are all feeding through into […]

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If the BCSC LinkedIn social network population was a country, it would be bigger than the Vatican

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I had the pleasure of speaking at the UK Shopping Centre Management Conference 2013  yesterday on social media and e-commerce, and the implications for retail and real estate. The conference had a record 400+ attendees and had an excellent agenda of speaking and panel sessions, in addition to networking and knowledge sharing breaks. The theme of […]

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To infinity and beyond….

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Against the backdrop of structural change playing out in retail, there is a need to figure out what the future retail and retail property landscape will look like. Without a doubt there will be more retail casualties. Some of the retail failures will be overdue, in other words, they only lasted this long thanks to […]

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UK Retail Predictions 2012

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Summary: Clicks’ drive retail growth at expense of ‘bricks’– for some time to come Imminent lease expiries – a catalyst for swift change ‘Protecting rental values’ becomes the new ‘rental growth’ Valuation adjustments – coming soon Relative winners still emerging ‘Clicks’ drive retail growth at expense of ‘bricks’ Online retail to strengthen during 2012… Online […]

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A week in Retail

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There are three stories in particular that have appeared in recent press that resonated with me. Unlocking the pipeline…. Firstly, Klepierre has said that it intends to sell €1bn of assets, to improve its financial position and to provide finance to support the development pipeline. As we suspected, developers will have to begin to sell […]

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