EG brings you a few highlights from yesterday’s news, in case you missed the daily round-up
RETAIL: Will an ‘Amazon tax’ cure retail’s ails?
As shoppers continue to migrate away from the UK high street towards online, physical stores have been bearing the brunt of competing against online rivals that do not need to pay the same overheads.
Is it time to lift the burden on bricks and mortar?
LEGAL: Why the rates revaluation hit retail
To help save the high street, the government must not turn a deaf ear to business rates reform, argues John Webber, head of business rates at Colliers International.
INVESTMENT: High returns or up in smoke?
This week the second of a new breed of REITs launched, focused purely on the North American medical marijuana market.
Is this real estate’s next big thing?
TECH: Is the crypto craze over?
As interest in cryptocurrencies wanes among the public, it is tempting to ask whether we are seeing the end of the craze that gripped the world in 2017.
