Simon Property Group’s surprising decision to pay out its fourth quarter dividend in the form of 90 percent stock instead of cash could trigger a new trend for retail REITs...
Cushman & Wakefield has published a new study, Race to the Bottom: Retail Continues to Develop New Strategies as the Financial Crisis Deepens, exploring the outlook for the retail real estate sector in 2009. The report parses retail trends in...
Although Chicago-based REIT General Growth Properties and Australian limited property trust Centro Properties Group have so far been able to work out a series of loan extensions and temporary deals with lenders, there remain persistent fears that...
In the upscale suburban Dallas community of Highland Village, four shopping centers recently opened at the intersection of Long Prairie and Justin Roads. These big-box-anchored properties offer residents all the retail conveniences they could...
In today's floundering market, mall owners are finding value incorporating open-air elements at enclosed malls and repositioning the properties as lifestyle centers...
Amid a dismal holiday sales season, rife with low shopper traffic and huge markdowns, U.S. retailers might suffer another hit to bottom lines as stretched consumers take advantage of lenient return policies to trade in holiday gifts for cash...
A dozen commercial real estate industry associations, including ICSC, have sent two letters to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, requesting a guarantee for highly rated, asset-backed securities. ICSC president and CEO Michael P. Kercheval...
Stroll through a mall center court these days and you may think you have stumbled into the lobby of an upscale hotel. Mall owners are taking cues from the hospitality industry and transforming center courts into spaces where shoppers can sink into...
One example of what might become an all too common phenomenon this year occurred on Jan. 6 when a court ordered the 509,000-square-foot Shenango Valley Mall in Hermitage, Pa., into receivership at the request of its lenders. Receivership is a...
When the founding fathers were trying to decide on a site for the federal capital, they eventually opted for one that took advantage of the Potomac River — at the time a major conduit of trade and a center of early American culture. Since then, it...
