Retail
Analysis and in-depth reporting of current developments in retail real estate, plus all the latest news
Could investors be overlooking CEE’s real estate markets?
While geopolitical uncertainty pervades Europe, CEE property – especially retail – has been strong
Is now the time to look at developed market REITs?
With interest rates high – but cuts on the horizon – is now a time for investors to revisit developed-market REITs? Razak Musah Baba explores
Nashville: People and investors flock to the Sun Belt’s music city
Nashville is one of a number of Sun Belt markets to experience an influx of people – and real estate investors – in recent years. Vanessa Drucker explores what this really means for the city
IPE Real Assets May/June 2023: Investors sit out the market
Are institutional real estate investors on the sidelines? The latest numbers from MSCI Real Assets would suggest so. US commercial real estate transactions in the third quarter of this year fell by 56% relative to Q1 2022. Sales of office properties were the weakest since 2010.
UK real estate to see ‘across the board’ repricing and forced sales
Rapidly rising interest rates could push lenders to become ‘less forgiving’, experts warn
In depth
US retail: Back to the mall?
For so long an unfavoured and compromised sector, retail is performing surprising well during the current wider property downturn in the US. Vanessa Drucker reports
Retail Europe: Could the sector be an investment star again?
As the beleaguered retail sector emerges from COVID-19, is now the time to buy retail? Mark Faithfull speaks to three investors
Market report: Retail
As the world tentatively reopens, we report on how the true scale of retail Armageddon is becoming apparent. Retail was traditionally the second-largest component after offices in core institutional real estate portfolios. In recent years, investors and fund managers have been striving to reduce that heavy retail weighting, often in favour of logistics, residential and some alternative property sectors, as we analyse in this report.
Frasers Centrepoint buys remaining Northpoint City mall stake for S$1.2bn
Deal will make FCT the largest suburban retail landlord in Singapore
London leads NBIM’s €900m-plus Europe real estate investment push
SWF secures 25% stake in a £2.7bn mixed-use portfolio in London’s Covent Garden
Dar Global buys $390m of residential-led development sites in Saudi Arabia
London-listed developer acquires site in Jeddah for $93m and invests $297m for Riyadh asset
URW sells Bonaire shopping mall to Spanish REIT Castellana for €305m
Castellana to own 55,800sqm of the 78,000sqm property’s gross lettable area
Could investors be overlooking CEE’s real estate markets?
While geopolitical uncertainty pervades Europe, CEE property – especially retail – has been strong
Slate AM buys 45 German grocery properties for €420m
The assets, acquired in four separate deals, are leased under long-term agreements
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