Category - 38-1-20

Victoria has just introduced a Bill that could establish a ‘commencement date’ in a retail lease, in a centre that...

To be successful in today’s market, you need to have your eye firmly on your customer and stay close to...

Returning to the office in January, I couldn’t help but be moved and inspired by the efforts of our fire...

Food Halls are changing as fast as mobile phones do! They used to be just a simple area with various...

Food and Hospitality is capable of creating a real and sustainable point of difference (POD) for a centre. In this...

Several new apartment buildings, a new fashion mall, new F&B precincts; a Big Gun already but now about to almost...

It’s been a challenging and sombre start to 2020, with our country tragically impacted by unprecedented bushfires and concern about...

Retail – ready for the future Earlier this year, I was fortunate to attend the NRF Retail Week conference in...

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

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

I’m sure we’ve all been affected in some way this summer by the endless havoc we’ve seen with the fires,...

It’s been a particularly challenging past 12 months for the retail sector as the industry continues to try and grasp...

Like all of us over the Christmas and New-Year period, I’ve witnessed the devastation of our land and local communities...

Thinking about what is important to our shoppers, I recall a column written by Bernard Salt, columnist for The Australian,...

The changing market Interest rates falling, movement in property prices, cost of living pressures, low wages growth and the impact...

At Charter Hall Retail – the more things change, the more they stay the same. I was recently asked which...

Ever evolving retail environment   The retail environment is constantly changing. For centuries humans have gathered in villages and marketplaces...

92 Centres are featured this year, of those, 11 were under redevelopment or have only traded fully for part of the...

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

Is the time of the ‘architectural brief’ at an end? Will it be replaced by a Pinterest board? According to...

What’s a ‘Net Zero Carbon’ building? It may generate its own power, emit no carbon, but it might be constructed...

The quality of journalism in this country (with few exceptions that prove the rule), continues to plummet. When it comes...

Retail is being challenged on a number of fronts – the latest two being bushfires and the coronavirus. The NRA...

Pauline Pham (Mirvac), was the recipient of the Sabina Rust Memorial Prize for Campaign of the Year, at the SCCA Marketing...

As we become more socially responsible and more caring about our environment, the practice of knocking down buildings in order...

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

Technology continues to shape our built environment, but a balance needs to be achieved between hi-tech demands and simple human...

It’s Big Guns time again – how the time flies! Last year was a tough one for retail. It’s not...