Retail
Analysis and in-depth reporting of current developments in retail real estate, plus all the latest news
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
Shop until it drops: The return of retail property
Retail real estate deals have made a significant contribution to volumes at the start of 2025, as investors are impressed by the sector’s attractive returns
Could investors be overlooking CEE’s real estate markets?
While geopolitical uncertainty pervades Europe, CEE property – especially retail – has been strong
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.
CapitaLand Commercial C-REIT raises RMB2.3bn in oversubscribed IPO
CLCR slated to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange by the end of September
Singapore property firm UOL sells Kinex Centre for S$375m
Kinex Time Square and Xiaohong Property buy the 19,000sqm asset in Paya Lebar
Cbus Property buys half A$1.8bn Sydney timber hybrid skyscraper
Joint venture with Milligan Group to develop 42,000sqm office and retail space
CapitaLand Commercial C-REIT snaps up China mall from CapitaLand China Trust for RMB813.8m
The soon-to-listed CLCR has bought a shopping mall in Changsha, in south-central China
Oregon PERF makes inaugural Europe real estate investment via Hines fund
The pension fund’s long-term goal is to have up to 10% of its real estate portfolio invested in ex-US core real estate
Bond Street REIT secures $300m from Conversant Capital
Capital to accelerate acquisitions of assets in the US Southeast and Midwest
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