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.
Maryland SRPS adds Nuveen to real estate manager roster
Pension fund commits $100m to Nuveen US Cities Retail Fund
JY buys 50% of South Australia’s largest mall from Cuscaden for A$670m
Scentre Group, the operator of the Westfield Marion centre, owns the remaining 50%
URW to acquire remaining 50% Westfield UTC stake for $705m
French retail property giant is acquiring the remaining stake through a cash and share deal
Harbert sells Dutch portfolio in largest retail deal since 2019
Portfolio was split between a Dutch institutional investor and an Orange Capital Partners-led consortium
Vendus Sweden buys SEK2.7bn retail portfolio from ICA and Bonnier
Deal involves ICA and Bonnier Fastigheter joining Nordika as Vendus shareholders
Blackstone and Pluto partnership enters Germany with €93m logistics lending
Partnership provides financing across Berlin logistics assets and a Hamburg retail centre
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