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Our industry owns and operates more car parking spaces in Australia than anyone else – some 585,000. Surprising therefore, that...

With ANZAC Day approaching, small businesses in NSW are being advised to plan ahead following recent changes to trading laws....

Mainbrace has established itself as one of Australia’s leading shopping centre construction companies. Although it’s not our business, what happens...

Our industry as a whole, represented by the Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA), has performed in an exemplary manner...

What a difference! A Big Guns issue without any rankings. Just over one year ago, that was, quite simply, inconceivable....

Many tenants and landlords are unaware of the tools to help them negotiate the market value of their lease. In...

The Government, Retail Associations and the SCCA, have all tried to reduce the stress being felt by stakeholders in the...

As lockdown restrictions begin to be lifted and businesses reopen, the retail community is determined to maintain the highest safety...

Australian retail property assets remain well sought after with $6.84 billion trading in 2019, underpinned by domestic and offshore groups...

Short changing workers by not paying them correctly is making big news. From small businesses to franchise operators to massive...

Chris Barnett is GPT’s new Head of Retail. In this article, he outlines GPT’s approach to reinventing the company’s retail...

Cap rates used to move in predictable ways. There was always a constant and definable relationship between Cap rates and...

How a company thinks about its contribution to the economy, its people as well as the environment and social fabric...

A Parliamentary Inquiry Report was recently handed down in the ACT. In part, it deals with the unfairness of the...

The retail team at Colliers International analyses the evolutionary led changes to the composition of Australian shopping centres and key...

Since the early days of our industry, the issue of turnover figures supplied by retailers to landlords has always been...

Tenancy coordination can be a tricky business. There are a number of stakeholders involved, and if it is not planned...

The current state of the retail construction market is categorised by a greater focus on refurbishments, extensions and interior re-purposing...

Here’s a view of the Mini Guns sector from an ‘outsider’. It’s a view of an ecomomist from some different...

You’ve only got to look at the ownership list of Mini Gun centres to realise where the smart money has...

Walk into the major supermarket that anchors your local shopping centre today, and it’s most likely a vastly changed environment...

Department stores, in the main, are having a tough time of it and have been for a few years now....

By Gough Recruitment Employees who move rapidly from employer to employer throughout their career are described as ‘job-hoppers’. Only a...

A local destination with an international audience As Sydney continues to grow into its well-deserved reputation as an important global...

One of the shopping centre manager’s biggest headaches is caused by construction works or interior works in an existing centre....

The completion of Sydney’s new George Street Boulevard is sparking a major shift in the city’s retail landscape, with the...

A bold new neighbourhood emerges in the heart of Sydney’s CBD Set to transform Sydney’s northern CBD, Quay Quarter Sydney,...

Developing a shopping centre is a team effort. The architect doesn’t know what to design without a market research input....

The ongoing relatively strong performance of food-based and non-discretionary retailing has been highlighted in JLL’s latest national retail survey. The...

If the super neighbourhood centre of the future is to fulfil its potential and serve as the local community’s natural...

New research has highlighted that Australian millennial dads (aged 18-34) are a particularly different breed of dad compared to their...

Some years ago, Frank Lowy, the co-founder of Westfield, was asked why the company had not yet entered the developing...