AMP CAPITAL Andrew Jeffs has been appointed as Deputy Fund Manager, ADPF. Andrew has spent the past ten years at Lendlease with roles including Head of Operations and Investment Management,...

Victoria has just introduced a Bill that could establish a ‘commencement date’ in a retail lease, in a centre that hasn’t yet been built! Sounds a bit looney doesn’t it?...

To be successful in today’s market, you need to have your eye firmly on your customer and stay close to their changing needs and preferences. Our team’s ability to understand...

Returning to the office in January, I couldn’t help but be moved and inspired by the efforts of our fire fighters, volunteers and regional communities who fought the ferocious fire...

Food Halls are changing as fast as mobile phones do! They used to be just a simple area with various fresh food outlets; now they are a mix of fresh...

Food and Hospitality is capable of creating a real and sustainable point of difference (POD) for a centre. In this article, Francis Loughran shares with you how larger malls nationally...

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...

It’s been a challenging and sombre start to 2020, with our country tragically impacted by unprecedented bushfires and concern about novel coronavirus. Many of our communities have been directly affected...

Retail – ready for the future Earlier this year, I was fortunate to attend the NRF Retail Week conference in New York. NRF is the world’s largest retail conference and...

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...

Reflecting on the year that was and predicting what a new year will bring causes most of us to acknowledge the scope and pace of change that occurs in what...

I’m sure we’ve all been affected in some way this summer by the endless havoc we’ve seen with the fires, followed by potential flooding in areas and now a global...

It’s been a particularly challenging past 12 months for the retail sector as the industry continues to try and grasp the global technological and demographic changes that are impacting our...

Like all of us over the Christmas and New-Year period, I’ve witnessed the devastation of our land and local communities through bush fires, and the incredible rallying of support that...

Thinking about what is important to our shoppers, I recall a column written by Bernard Salt, columnist for The Australian, recounting a story of a McDonald’s restaurant opening in a...

The changing market Interest rates falling, movement in property prices, cost of living pressures, low wages growth and the impact from the country’s bushfires and coronavirus outbreak are all impacting...

At Charter Hall Retail – the more things change, the more they stay the same. I was recently asked which aspects of Charter Hall’s retail business I am most proud...

Ever evolving retail environment   The retail environment is constantly changing. For centuries humans have gathered in villages and marketplaces to trade, barter and later purchase their fresh food: meats,...

92 Centres are featured this year, of those, 11 were under redevelopment or have only traded fully for part of the year – therefore we have statistics on 81 Big Guns. It’s a few less than previous years. This year, 151 Properties’ Forest Hill Chase, Greensborough, Top Ryde and Warrawong declined...

As the retail sector continues to evolve, so does the thinking around how best to reach existing and potential customers, and how to use the retail environment itself in novel...

Is the time of the ‘architectural brief’ at an end? Will it be replaced by a Pinterest board? According to Susanne Pini, the Pinterest trend is producing ‘sameness’, and creativity...

What’s a ‘Net Zero Carbon’ building? It may generate its own power, emit no carbon, but it might be constructed of materials full of carbon. On the other hand, it...

The quality of journalism in this country (with few exceptions that prove the rule), continues to plummet. When it comes to shopping centre issues, it would seem there is a...

Retail is being challenged on a number of fronts – the latest two being bushfires and the coronavirus. The NRA has released its proposals… Australian retail is currently confronting an...

Pauline Pham (Mirvac), was the recipient of the Sabina Rust Memorial Prize for Campaign of the Year, at the SCCA Marketing Awards last year. Her prize of $15,000 for personal development,...

As we become more socially responsible and more caring about our environment, the practice of knocking down buildings in order to re-develop, lessens. Increasingly, unused buildings are being adapted for...

Australian retail property assets remain well sought after with $6.84 billion trading in 2019, underpinned by domestic and offshore groups who continue to see value in the sector.  Retail investment...

Technology continues to shape our built environment, but a balance needs to be achieved between hi-tech demands and simple human interaction. Social interaction cannot be replaced with technology or virtual...