Cockburn Gateway Shopping City sits some 24km south of the Perth CBD. The city of Cockburn is at the heart of the fastest-growing region between Perth and Mandurah. The Perron...

A new precinct has been created in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. It will bring people back to a previously neglected part of the city, where they will enjoy a...

In the past few years, Revelop has sparked the industry’s interest by acquiring some prominent centres such as Stanhope Village, Tramsheds and Forestway to name but a few. But the...

Elanor Investors Group was founded in 2009. Its rise has been meteoric. Recently, the Group announced the acquisition of Challenger’s Australian real estate funds management platform. In retail property terms,...

Westfield, indisputably – the greatest shopping centre company in the world. The bulk of its global portfolio was in Australia – now owned and managed by Scentre Group. At Scentre...

We all know ‘The Shire’, the Sutherland Shire region, some 26kms from Sydney’s CBD. It’s one of Australia’s most affluent regions and development over the past decade-and-a-half or so, has...

Several new apartment buildings, a new fashion mall, new F&B precincts; a Big Gun already but now about to almost double its size; you get a lot when you spend...

UPSTAIRS is the final segment of Stage 1 of the redevelopment of Mirvac’s Toombul Shopping Centre. At the time of purchase in 2016, Toombul was anachronistic, responding to a time and...

Years ago, Coles was part of the massive Coles Myer Group, the largest retail conglomerate in Australia. It then became part of Wesfarmers, the largest conglomerate in Australia! In late...

Several of the major players in our industry had a look at the Masters portfolio. A collection of properties spanning the country; some 30 odd massive stores in high exposure,...

QIC Global Real Estate is constantly engaged in redeveloping its shopping centres. This is because the company has a long-term view and sees its centres, rather than as simply retail...

Vicinity Centres is no longer its past – its amalgamations, acquisitions, its morphing, even its previous names. Vicinity now stands as its own entity, fully bedded down, structured for its...

Charter Hall has a very different approach, but then they’ve got a very different portfolio! It’s retail in all forms; from stand-alone supermarkets and hardware stores, to major shopping centres...

Five years ago, Woolworths spun off a significant part of its property portfolio into a listed REIT called Shopping Centres Australia Property Group. The Group now owns some 86 centres,...

Tauranga is New Zealand’s fastest growing city. At the heart of its prime residential strip sits the AMP Capital managed Bayfair Shopping Centre, the Number 1 performing centre in the...

Stockland Green Hills has transformed itself from the most powerful Little Gun in the country, into a super-prime regional and one of the major Big Gun centres in Australia. It...

It’s unique – for a start, what other centre has a river flowing through it? Lendlease’s Sunshine Plaza dominates the Sunshine Coast – the ninth most populous region in Australia....

Harbour Town and Waterfront City were the former names for the retail, entertainment and leisure component of Melbourne’s Docklands development. Docklands was one of the largest property developments ever undertaken...

This, in the true sense of the word, is an ‘extraordinary’ story. It begins a long time ago, but for our purposes we need to go back less than a couple of decades, to the late 1990s.

Perth is on the move; it’s expanding to the extent that some of the largest urban renewal projects ever undertaken in Australia will be seen in the city. Two new...

AMP used to follow. Today it leads. After Pacific Fair and Macquarie, they’ve unveiled their latest plans for two centres in Perth: Garden City and Karrinyup. These aren’t just extensions...

The Perth metropolitan area basically consists of a narrow strip running north/south along the West Australian coast bordering the Indian Ocean. Just beyond its...

Mirvac Retail has just gone through an interesting stage. In line with the other Mirvac divisions it has come up with a brand. In doing so it has had to...

City retail, especially that at the bases of prestige commercial office towers, is changing rapidly. Gone are the days when it was just simply about a few fast food shops,...