Many tenants and landlords are unaware of the tools to help them negotiate the market value of their lease. In this article, Simon Fonteyn of LeaseInfo discuss...
The Government, Retail Associations and the SCCA, have all tried to reduce the stress being felt by stakeholders in the Shopping Centre industry. Certain...
As lockdown restrictions begin to be lifted and businesses reopen, the retail community is determined to maintain the highest safety standards possible. In...
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...
Short changing workers by not paying them correctly is making big news. From small businesses to franchise operators to massive retail organisations – parts of...
Chris Barnett is GPT’s new Head of Retail. In this article, he outlines GPT’s approach to reinventing the company’s retail centres. It’s all about being...
How a company thinks about its contribution to the economy, its people as well as the environment and social fabric of the communities it serves is...
A Parliamentary Inquiry Report was recently handed down in the ACT. In part, it deals with the unfairness of the ‘so-called’ ACT tax reforms of 2012/13 in...
The retail team at Colliers International analyses the evolutionary led changes to the composition of Australian shopping centres and key factors underpinning...
Tenancy coordination can be a tricky business. There are a number of stakeholders involved, and if it is not planned and managed correctly from the beginning...
The current state of the retail construction market is categorised by a greater focus on refurbishments, extensions and interior re-purposing projects, as...
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...
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 which...
Walk into the major supermarket that anchors your local shopping centre today, and it’s most likely a vastly changed environment than it was ten years ago. And...
Department stores, in the main, are having a tough time of it and have been for a few years now. In the US, the situation is worse than here with closures...
By Gough Recruitment Employees who move rapidly from employer to employer throughout their career are described as ‘job-hoppers’. Only a few...
A local destination with an international audience As Sydney continues to grow into its well-deserved reputation as an important global city straddling East...
One of the shopping centre manager’s biggest headaches is caused by construction works or interior works in an existing centre. Retailers need to trade...
The completion of Sydney’s new George Street Boulevard is sparking a major shift in the city’s retail landscape, with the once renowned grid-locked strip fast...
A bold new neighbourhood emerges in the heart of Sydney’s CBD Set to transform Sydney’s northern CBD, Quay Quarter Sydney, incorporating Quay Quarter Tower, 33...
Developing a shopping centre is a team effort. The architect doesn’t know what to design without a market research input. The retail plan can’t be finalised...
The ongoing relatively strong performance of food-based and non-discretionary retailing has been highlighted in JLL’s latest national retail survey. The Retail...
If the super neighbourhood centre of the future is to fulfil its potential and serve as the local community’s natural heart, to become a piece of social...
New research has highlighted that Australian millennial dads (aged 18-34) are a particularly different breed of dad compared to their older counterparts...
Some years ago, Frank Lowy, the co-founder of Westfield, was asked why the company had not yet entered the developing shopping centre industry in China...
With the rise of mixed-use town centres comes a new focus on social retail – incorporating community services, entertainment, fresh food and an engaging...
In late April 2017, NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business, John Barilaro, announced that the newly amended Retail Leases Act will commence...
In recent years, the retail sector has been impacted by considerable payments system change, much of which has been of great benefit to the sector; however...
We are all aware of the evolution of food offerings within shopping centres and their importance within the broader retail market. But what about the
1 July 2017 will mark a symbolic day. This is because, to channel the words of a former Prime Minister, a controversial tax loophole is due to be ‘dead, buried...
Anyone would think that the retail world is about to collapse with the amount of retailers that have either gone intoreceivership or restructured their...
Little Guns are always hot! They are the stepping-stones to Big Gun status. What happens in them is always interesting because...
