City population mobility in parts of the UK is just 15pts lower than usual levels in this second national lockdown, with Huq’s Index suggesting that residents have been far less restrained than they were during lockdown 1.0 in April.
The CoreLogic Home Price index has reported quickening appreciation in home values since May, and in September annual price growth was more than two percentage points faster than one year earlier. The acceleration in price growth reflected a demand and supply imbalance.
Overall, October job listings appear to mirror the modest increases we witnessed in September. The most striking change can be seen in created job listings which were up 6% in October, after a flat September. Deleted job listings largely held steady, finishing the month at 12%, just slightly above September’s increase of 11%.
The 2020 United States presidential election was historic in many respects, but perhaps most notably for its record-breaking voter turnout. While encouraging voters to participate is a priority in any election, the unique circumstances brought by a global pandemic posed new challenges. One response to this was the implementation of early voting in most U.S. states.
Heading into what will likely be a particularly unique holiday season, there is a group of retailers that seem to be impervious to the effects the wider retail ecosystem is experiencing offline. And while this group certainly includes more than two brands, it is headlined by Walmart and Target.
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated structural trends that were already reshaping the global commercial property investment landscape. One of these trends is the continued shrinking of the investable universe, with a huge chunk of the retail sector now seen as uninvestable.
Among the many social and cultural changes that the pandemic has brought about, arguably the most impactful will be the ways in which it has influenced our decisions about where to live. Not just temporary relocations while we ride out lock-downs and WFH, but permanent migration that will alter how we live and how we spend.
Mid-March marked the first week of nationwide quarantines. At that time, The Hollywood Reporter reported that U.S. video game usage during peak hours had increased 75% from the week prior, and that video streaming and overall web traffic had increased by 12% and 20% respectively.
The restaurant industry’s performance continues improving with October posting the best same-store sales growth results since the beginning of the pandemic. But there are some reasons for concern that the industry’s recovery has stalled in recent weeks and may be a sign of things to come. October’s same-store sales growth represented only a small improvement from the -8.1% growth reported for September.
It’s prime time for online shopping. Earlier this year, Amazon announced that it would shift its annual Prime Day from mid-July to mid-October in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. New sales data shows that Amazon Prime Day 2020, which took place on October 13 and 14, outperformed previous Prime Days while also ushering in an increase in online sales at other major retailers.
As the Coronavirus tidal wave rolls its way through the world for Round Two, European cities have been tested for their resilience in Quarter Three and Four. Will the theme of “Sun and Fun” help countries stay afloat? ForwardKeys examines the latest flight data to share with you the freshest insights.
In the below chart we present the 25 biggest trade routes in Asia Pacific and illustrate how cross-border investment has behaved during this pandemic year. Novel capital flows, such as Austrian investors spending in China and Saudi players investing in Singapore, may be interesting from an anecdotal perspective, but market liquidity is ultimately driven by the most well traveled capital highways.
Dodge Data & Analytics today released its 2021 Dodge Construction Outlook, a mainstay in construction industry forecasting and business planning. The report predicts that total U.S. construction starts will increase 4% in 2021, to $771 billion.
Staffing levels at industrial facilities across Europe have fallen significantly with much of the continent in the midst of lockdown, with worker presence in some sectors dropping to levels beneath April. The second wave has brought steepest declines to Aerospace, Chemical and Food producers.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending November 7, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 522,028 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.3 percent compared with the same week last year.
COVID-19 has changed the dynamics of the restaurant industry, with quarantine and shelter-in-place orders leading some to increase the amount of food they’re ordering in, while others hesitated to have any contact with even delivery workers.
2020 was a banner year for madness in the retail sector, but even amid the pandemic that upended much of the ecosystem, there were bright spots. And none shined brighter than the home improvement sector led by industry giants Home Depot and Lowe’s.
Halloween 2020 likely looked a bit different this year than in previous years. With COVID-19 remaining a looming threat, many people found creative ways to still celebrate the holiday in a socially distanced manner. Walmart was the clear winner when it came to online Halloween chocolate sales among merchants.
In August 2020, 6.6% of home mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure)\[1\], unchanged from July 2020, but a 2.9-percentage point increase from August 2019, according to the latest CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights Report.
After one year of Disney+ being live on the app stores, Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded 100 million times globally, with 62% of those coming from the US and 38% from international markets. Global numbers do not include India, where Disney+ is built into the Hotstar app.
