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.
Bond yields drag French real estate down, but retail and logistics offer relief
Oxford Economics report flags French commercial property values 16.6% below peak
Alfana acquires Forum Algarve shopping centre from Commerz Real for €130m
Commerz Real exits the 27,400sqm Faro shopping centre after 25 years of ownership
PGIM veteran Schwarz co-founds German retail manager with van Mark
Newly launched Aventra REIM targets neighbourhood retail assets
Fortress adds 600-bed student housing asset to new 1031 exchange platform
The deal marks the second acquisition for Fortress Real Estate Exchange
Frasers Property buys Singapore shophouses in S$175m Orchard Road deal
Singaporean developer Frasers Property is consolidating its footprint along Orchard Road
Australian Retirement Trust snaps up 50% stake in Queensland shopping centre
The transaction will be the largest single-asset retail transaction completed in Australia this calendar year
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