Retail news & events

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">A new hotel mall is on the horizon for the Orlando area in 2015. </span>

<div>External policy and exchange rate volatility as influencing factors on Russian real estate investment market.</div> <div> <br /> </div>

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Britain's economy is being bolstered by consumers due to a strengthening in the housing market, pay increases & bonuses, subsiding inflation, and the low interest rates. </span>

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Alibaba, a well known Chinese internet mogul has invested through shares and bonds 5.6bn Hong Kong dollars, equaling $692m and £415m into the Chinese mall operator, InTime.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Chairman HE Abdulla Bin Khalid Al Qahtani of Al Meera says the company plans to expand their retail space an additional 100,000m2 when all of their current and upcoming projects are complete.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Kingsgate shopping mall in Huddersfield is utilizing a new technology for tracking it's patrons.</span>

<p class="p1">The shopping centre investment market is poised for solid growth in 2014 with more stock being made available throughout the year. </p>

<p class="p1">Baybrook Mall of Friendswood, Texas has plans to expand another <span class="s1">26 477</span> square meters by the Holiday season of 2015.</p>

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 35); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Sustainability is now the focus for most retailers and their decision to share their efforts both internally and externally may be contributing to their ability to stay in business.</span>

With rapid changes in the preferences of consumers, retailing remains a complicated business. From 2010 through 2013, Fidelity Investments noted that shopping in malls has decreased considerably due to varying conditions.

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">After completing the area enlargement project of the shopping and entertainment center, Dubai Mall can receive up to 100 million visitors per year.</span></p>

High street rents increased by 0.8%. High street yields decreased by 10bps. Shopping centre rents increased by 2.9%. Shopping centre yields decreased by 7bps.