The pandemic has clarified the vital role that grocery retailers play in society. Consumers expect these businesses to keep them fed and healthy, and groceries remain essential retailers in an...

In this ‘new world’ where things are changing by the hour, omnidata intelligence company Skyfii, has partnered with leading customer insights firm Brickfields Consulting to help the retail property industry...

How have shopping centre yields compressed during the past eight years or so? How many stores have closed through major retailer collapses over the same period? Do you know the...

Commissioned by the SCCA, Michael Baker examined the efficiency and performances of shopping centres in five western countries including Australia and the US. The Australians came out on top (something...

As Department Stores and DDSs shrink in size, the ‘freed up space’ needs to be dealt with. The positive is that it’s usually the cheapest (rental wise) space in the centre...

The link between sustainability, the environment and what and how we buy, is strengthening. It will affect our tenancy mix, the retailers we choose to have in our centres, and...

The latest Avdiev Remuneration Report 2019 October update, finds that young smart workers in Building, Design and Construction, Finance, Corporate and IT have been offered the biggest remuneration rises to...

The latest JLL retail centre managers’ survey shows subdued rental outlook and greater online competition as owners invest heavily to boost retailer engagement. Enhancing the tenant mix and refurbishment have emerged...

FY19 Market Overview Transaction activity slowed substantially in the second half of FY19. Of the $6.5 billion of transaction volumes recorded in the 2019 financial year, only $1.7 billion (26%)...

One of our main features in this issue is ‘women in development’. Helen Bakewell joined this industry some 25 years ago. From a ‘rookie’ she progressed through the industry to...

It’s CBD Guns issue and a research piece on the Melbourne CBD follows. It’s exhaustive, comprehensive, specialised and professional. A textbook case of an expert research overview. Melbourne’s CBD arguably...

JLL’s 20th Retail Centre Managers’ Survey was undertaken in February across 84 JLL-managed shopping centres nationally. The majority were sub-regional centres (37) and neighbourhood centres (26) , while 15 were...

Deloitte’s latest annual Global Powers of Retailing report reveals three locally based retailers: Wesfarmers, Woolworths and JB HiFi – remain in the Top 250, after JB HiFi was added last...

JLL’s latest annual Australian Shopping Centre Investment Review and Outlook 2019 talks about the ever evolving retail sector creating opportunities for investors. In 2018, sales volumes remain elevated, recording the third highest...

Cinemas in shopping centres only occurred in the 1990s. Look at new usages – from mobile phones to sporting footwear – and what you see is a society in transition....

JLL’s 19th Retail Centre Managers’ Survey was undertaken in August across 88 JLL-managed retail shopping centres nationally. The majority of centres were neighbourhood and sub-regional centres. The annual report gives a...

Here’s a view of the Mini Guns sector from an ‘outsider’. It’s a view of an ecomomist from some different angles. Quantium’s property division combines data science and artificial intelligence to...

Everybody reading this who is involved with a shopping centre development wants and expects their project to be a winner, to shoot the lights out, win awards and deliver fabulous...

You’ve only got to look at the ownership list of Mini Gun centres to realise where the smart money has been going these past few years. Once a sector in...

The Australian risk free rate has been rising since mid 2016 following a global trend. Bond yields, rate rises, cap rates – all heady stuff but the absolute core of...

Neighbourhood shopping centres have been the primary target for acquisitions in the last few years by many private investors, syndicators and...

Many issues of SCN have a shelf life of a year. The Big Guns, for example, are kept as references until the next one comes out! The JLL retail investment market review gives this issue the same shelf life – it’s kept until it’s updated. Fascinating reading, not just for...

Australian shopping centres are in huge demand at the moment, and have been for some time...

We all know about the development pipelines across the country but what’s fuelling them?

I have known Michael Lloyd since I was at university in the 1980s...