Category - Research

McKinsey & Company has launched the second article in the online publishing series, The Story of the Australian Consumer –...

Research powerhouse McKinsey have released a series of reports about ‘The Story of the Australian Consumer’ – exploring the unique...

Rental growth and pricing valuation benchmarks are the biggest challenges facing the retail sector over the next 12 months, according...

As reported last month, Skyfii have partnered with Brickfields Consulting to uncover key impacts of COVID-19 on shopping behaviours through a...

The pandemic has clarified the vital role that grocery retailers play in society. Consumers expect these businesses to keep them...

In this ‘new world’ where things are changing by the hour, omnidata intelligence company Skyfii, has partnered with leading customer...

How have shopping centre yields compressed during the past eight years or so? How many stores have closed through major...

Commissioned by the SCCA, Michael Baker examined the efficiency and performances of shopping centres in five western countries including Australia...

As Department Stores and DDSs shrink in size, the ‘freed up space’ needs to be dealt with. The positive is that...

The link between sustainability, the environment and what and how we buy, is strengthening. It will affect our tenancy mix,...

The latest Avdiev Remuneration Report 2019 October update, finds that young smart workers in Building, Design and Construction, Finance, Corporate...

The latest JLL retail centre managers’ survey shows subdued rental outlook and greater online competition as owners invest heavily to...

FY19 Market Overview Transaction activity slowed substantially in the second half of FY19. Of the $6.5 billion of transaction volumes...

One of our main features in this issue is ‘women in development’. Helen Bakewell joined this industry some 25 years...

It’s CBD Guns issue and a research piece on the Melbourne CBD follows. It’s exhaustive, comprehensive, specialised and professional. A...

JLL’s 20th Retail Centre Managers’ Survey was undertaken in February across 84 JLL-managed shopping centres nationally. The majority were sub-regional...

Deloitte’s latest annual Global Powers of Retailing report reveals three locally based retailers: Wesfarmers, Woolworths and JB HiFi – remain...

JLL’s latest annual Australian Shopping Centre Investment Review and Outlook 2019 talks about the ever evolving retail sector creating opportunities for investors....

Cinemas in shopping centres only occurred in the 1990s. Look at new usages – from mobile phones to sporting footwear...

JLL’s 19th Retail Centre Managers’ Survey was undertaken in August across 88 JLL-managed retail shopping centres nationally. The majority of centres...

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

Everybody reading this who is involved with a shopping centre development wants and expects their project to be a winner,...

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

The Australian risk free rate has been rising since mid 2016 following a global trend. Bond yields, rate rises, cap...

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

Many issues of SCN have a shelf life of a year. The Big Guns, for example, are kept as references...

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...