Rents are rising in many of the nation’s best-known trophy retail districts. Of the 13 markets tracked in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Americas in a report by brokerage CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), seven posted rent increases in the past 12 months...

It’s no secret that with vacancy rates reaching record highs, shopping center landlords have been more willing to accept non-retail tenants, including medical offices, schools and religions institutions. What few might realize, however, is that...

Special servicers face a daunting task in trying to resolve billions of dollars in troubled commercial real estate loans based on new research from Trepp LLC. Of the 1,125 CMBS loans on properties that were reappraised during the first half of...

In the latest update from RBC Capital Markets on retailer planned store openings, tenants are largely maintaining previously established growth goals. RBC, with data from Retail Lease Trac, compiles a monthly look at retailer demand for new space...

Site selection and analytics technology firms are adapting to a world where immediacy is the new watch word. Today’s retail real estate executives don’t just expect to receive the right information to help them make important business decisions...

U.S. mall owners are doing everything they can to turn the back-to-school shopping season into a success, but their sales projections are falling short of ICSC and NRF forecasts...

As the retail real estate industry transforms in the wake of the recession, mall and shopping center owners are building relationships with the kinds of tenants they might have ignored five or ten years ago...