Retail
Analysis and in-depth reporting of current developments in retail real estate, plus all the latest news
IPE RA Real Estate APAC Briefing
Is ‘shop-top’ living the answer to the Australian housing shortage?
Australian funds split over US-style redemption rules
High-profile grapple over Lendlease-managed funds highlights broader structural tensions in A$68bn sector
IPE RA Real Estate Europe Briefing: Investors flock to Spanish retail amid strongest sales growth in years
Iberian Peninsula claimed Europe’s top three retail transactions by value in Q1
Change of the guard at M&G’s $7bn Asia-Pacific core fund
Florence Chong speaks to fund managers Richard Van den Berg and Jason Leong
Could Asia-Pacific real estate benefit from US uncertainty?
Despite experiencing a recent decline in transactions, some Asia-Pacific might attract a bigger slice of capital flows
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.
Weekly Data Sheet - 7 August 2026
NBIM gives €1.4bn vote of confidence to Spanish retail
Norway’s SWF makes €1.4bn entry into Spanish retail sector
NBIM forms new partnership with Sonae Sierra, buying Balkany portfolio of Madrid, Barcelona and Alicante shopping centres
Henderson Park and Lowe acquire Plaza Bonita shopping centre in San Diego
The joint venture partners plan to upgrade and reposition the 1.1 million sq ft property
Hongkong Land snaps up landmark mixed-use property in Singapore for S$1.1bn
Aqcuisition for its Singapore Central Private Real Estate Fund from listed Hong Kong property group, Wharf Real Estate
IFM Investors acquires shopping centre portfolio in Melbourne
IFM Investors has acquired a shopping centre portfolio to be developed and built by Australian-owned Oreana with an end value of approximately A$300m (€184m).
Principal’s French fund enters US retail market with Charlotte purchase
Principal Inside SCPI buys fully leased strip retail property in North Carolina for $12m
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