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European Retail in 2021 and 2022

One crisis follows the next. While retailers faced nationwide lockdowns, restrictions based on testing, vaccination, or recovery, and already disrupted supply chains last year, the war in Ukraine is bringing the issue of “consumer pricing” to the forefront. Additionally, supply chain disruptions and record energy prices are leading to unseen inflation rates in many European countries for several decades.

Consumer's Trends

What the Consumer Really Wants | Stay well informed on the issues of today and tomorrow!

Upcoming challenges for the Polish investment market

Avison Young reports on the property investment market in Poland after Q1 2022.

March 2022 Research

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Real estate investment market in Poland in 2021

The Polish investment market has quickly adjusted to the changes caused by the pandemic. The retail market is still spearheaded by retail parks, which have been increasingly popular among investors for the past three years.

Market Update: Turkish Retail Real Estate Market

The pandemic might be a topic causing fatigue for some, but the fluctuations and changes in the market are exciting to experience and full of positive developments. How have we survived this ever-changing world? What has changed, what can we learn? Let's look at the fast and exciting flow of 2021 in this overview of the Turkish retail real estate market.

Sustainability

Sustainability | Stay well informed on the issues of today and tomorrow!

Where do our online sales go?

A recent study by RegioData Research, which analyzed online stores, shows how Austrians shop on the Internet. The results are sobering: only 27% of sales remain in Austria.

Retail Parks–an attractive asset class in times of crisis and beyond

As retail parks become more and more enticing, RegioPlan looks at the market distribution of this asset class across Europe in the following study.

Retail Park Report 2021: One-Stop-Shopping instead of One-Shop-Stopping

MEC and its partners Real Estate, Savills Germany, Dr. Lademann & Partner and WISAG published the 9th edition of the Retail Park Report “About Tomorrow–Retail parks in the city of the future”. The key finding: Sustainable and cross-asset-class strategies are needed to develop cities and rural areas for the future as urban neighborhoods and surrounding areas gain in importance.

When there’s a will, there’s a way: The path to net zero carbon retail real estate

“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: Either we stop it–or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”

An Overview of the Serbian Capital

A number of shopping centers have opened their doors in Belgrade over the past few years. In June 2020, BEO, for which MPC Properties is responsible, opened its doors. Development, Technical Operations, and Innovations Director Jovana Cvetković looks back on a time of particular turbulence – not solely due to reasons relating to the pandemic.

Turkish Market Outlook

It is a solemn fact that in order to understand the current situation of any commercial real estate market around the globe, including Turkey, analysis of the current impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the main dynamics of the industry is required.

GfK study: European retail in 2020 and 2021

Probably almost everyone in Europe would like to see a return to normality, to where we have achieved herd immunity, infection numbers are controlled, and coronavirus-related restrictions are lifted. Whenever we reach that normality, it will still be a new kind of normal. The coronavirus pandemic will permanently change the way we work, live, and consume – and retailers will also have to find their way in the new world after the acute shock of 2020 and 2021.

GRAI treading water – pandemic (still) stops recovery in retail markets

Global Retail Attractiveness Index remains weak in Europe. Poland, Germany and Ireland are new top trio in index. UK the only market to see an increase.

Decentralization and the future of retail in German city centers

As if retailers in German city centers have not had enough to contend with in recent years–primarily driven by growing competition from online retailers–now they are also confronted with even bigger economic problems due to the Corona pandemic and the associated restrictions and closures. A continuous analysis of visitor development by GfK shows what has actually happened since the start of the pandemic, who the losers and even bigger losers of the pandemic are, and what the future holds.

Increased Investor Appetite for Grocery Real Estate

A new report from Union Investment and JLL highlights the growing grocery real estate market, with the share of European grocery real estate investment, as a proportion of total retail real estate investment, reaching 22% in 2020, up from 6% in 2016.

Inspiring survey results

Multi recently published its Pan European Customer Monitor + Covid-19 Survey. For Head of Research Mariam Hussain, the most positively surprising result was that 70% of visitors surveyed indicated that shopping centers are valuable places to spend time in and will continue to be especially once the pandemic is over.