In light of the recent news that Prada has acquired the building housing its flagship Miu Miu store on New Bond Street for approximately £250 million, we take a closer look at the historical retail landscape of this iconic shopping…
Estimating the total retail floorspace across Great Britain has long been a complex challenge for stakeholders in the retail property sector. However, Green Street, following its acquisition of LDC’s granular POI dataset, has harnessed cutting-edge data science and analytical capabilities…
The narrative around brick & mortar retail has changed dramatically over the last few years, particularly relative to the outright negativity from the late 2010s. At the time, mounting concerns that ecommerce would quickly dominate the retail industry – compounded…
Canadian macroeconomic expectations have deteriorated in the second half of 2024. Immigration policies are becoming more conservative, adding to uncertainty. Unemployment rates have lately jumped off as the private sector employment is in recession. In such context, personal income growth…
What are commercial mREITs: At their core, commercial mREITs operate simple businesses. They write short-term, floating-rate loans collateralized by pre-stabilised (transitional) commercial real estate assets. They then turn around and lever up the returns on these loans using financing from…
Real estate is a simple business, but the devil is always in the detail. Nowhere is this more apt than with the retail sector. Where an industrial building usually has one tenant and an office building often only has a…
It’s been a tough few years for real estate professionals tasked with monitoring the goings on in the office market in the U.K. and Europe, to say the least. But in these uncertain times, surprisingly few grasp the chance presented…
In the Farrelly Brothers 1996 comedy classic Kingpin, actor Randy Quaid’s character Ishmael Boorg famously states “I want to go to Reno.” The storyline of the movie centers around a young Amish bowler making it to Reno, Nevada for a…
The fate of the theatre industry has been a topic of debate in recent years. Not only did the industry endure a zero-revenue environment throughout Covid, but since then, theatres have suffered from a lack of content due to the…
The industrial sector and office sector have both seen significant flux in the past year. In a global macroeconomic environment filled with shifting trends and difficult lending policies, the commercial real estate (CRE) market is filled with market participants hunting…
