Retail
Analysis and in-depth reporting of current developments in retail real estate, plus the all latest news
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.
Gaw, Patience Capital snap up Tokyu Plaza Ginza in $1bn partnership
Gaw Capital owns 91% in the partnership and Singapore-based PCG owns 9%
NYSTRS approves $300m commitment to Edens Investment Trust
Commitment is the pension fund’s third investment with Edens in the past four years
US investor snaps up AshbyCapital’s £220m UK retail park portfolio
AshbyCapital sells Morfa Shopping, Westside Shopping and Abbotsinch Shopping parks
Brookfield invests $1.6bn in Japan real estate
Manager buys stake in a Tokyo mixed-use complex and a logistics project in Greater Nagoya
Primaris REIT invests C$585m in acquisitions as part of $724m deal
TSX-listed firm buys 50% stake in the Southgate Centre in Edmonton and 100% of Oshawa Centre
NBIM buys 25% of Grosvenor’s £1.2bn UK mixed-use portfolio
The 2.3m sqft portfolio comprises mainly office and retail assets in London’s Mayfair
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