According to the Commerce Department, retail sales were negative in December. This is much bleaker data than the same-store sales comps that came out a week ago. The decline was not what economists had expected. Sales were expected to rise 0.5...
Industry activity is picking up again. There's been a noticeable rise in the number of stories about retail real estate and retailers in recent days. With retailers, the post-holiday shopping strategic decisions about store openings and closings...
Seems like I'm in a neverending game of catchup these days. Here are some interesting recent news and notes from around the retail real estate world. ...
It's early January and the forecast pieces are out in force. Reuters, quoting research from CBRE, says we have to wait until 2011 before we see any growth in commercial real estate. ...
After a weak November, retailers bounced back in a big way in December. ICSC, Retail Forward, Retail Metrics and RetailSails have all done the math in comparing results from various chains and the verdict is that many retailers had a very merry...
A Wall Street Journal story today contrasts the performances of shopping center REITs and regional mall REITs. The story looks at the stark differences in Dow Jones' indexes of shopping center REITs and mall REITs where it notes that regional...
I'm ringing in the New Year with a bad cold. Overall it's been pretty quiet on the retail real estate front since Christmas. Here are a few news and notes from the past week or so in case you missed them. Also, we posted a Year in Review last week...
A discussion of the early numbers about the holiday shopping season. This is quoting Mastercard's numbers, which generally aren't the benchmark people use when assessing the season.
