The Mall of Switzerland has announced its official opening date: this unique leisure and shopping destination in the heart of Switzerland will be opening its doors on Wednesday 8 November 2017.

After last year’s announcement of the expansion of their food & beverage concepts to Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Roermond Designer Outlet, HMSHost is entering a new channel: downtown.

With about 2.8 million visitors and another significant turnover plus compared to the previous year, new records were set at the designer outlets Wolfsburg.

The Dukat shopping centre in Olsztyn will be managed by Knight Frank. Dukat is a subsequent retail location in the property portfolio under Knight Frank’s management.

On behalf of the Pan European Urban Retail Fund, “PURetail”, a Luxembourg FCP-SIF available to professional investors only and closed to subscriptions since July 2014, La Française Real Estate Partners International (LF REP International) and Aberdeen Asset Management have successfully sold the “Estelle/Oscar”-Portfolio, a high-street retail portfolio located in Linköping, the fifth largest city in Sweden.

JSE listed Polish property group Echo Polska Properties NV (EPP) raised approximately R2.2 billion in an accelerated bookbuilding through the placing of 118 918 918 new shares at a price of R 18.50 per share.

The best in commercialisation programmes across UK retail destinations were celebrated at the Revo Opal Awards presentation breakfast on April 5, 2017, at the British Museum, London.

The shopping centre Jumbo, located in the vicinity of the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, experienced rapid growth in 2016 with an increase of 4.4% in total sales and 11% in visitor numbers.

Thor Equities, a global leader in urban real estate development, leasing and management, has signed a contract to acquire the retail space at 54 Rue de Rennes in Paris for €15 million.

Capital & Regional have submitted a planning application to Haringey Council to create a significant new retail unit and car park at The Mall Wood Green.

Pradera, one of Europe’s leading specialist retail property fund and asset managers, has completed the first acquisitions for the Pradera European Retail Parks SCSp, a Luxembourg fund which in March signed a EUR 900 million transaction with IKEA Centres to acquire 25 retail parks in eight European countries.

NEINVER has unveiled the new international campaign for its brand The Style Outlets, an international platform that operates outlet centres in Europe.

Shopping centre owner intu has signed up Hollywood Bowl for its multi-million pound extension to intu Watford that is set to elevate the town to a top 20 UK retail destination.

Pan-European retail real estate investment manager Redevco acquired a large retail property in Paris’ commune Boulogne Billancourt on behalf of one of its investor clients.

Galeria Młociny is the largest facility of its kind under construction in Warsaw. It was purchased by Echo Polska Properties and Echo Investment in March this year.

JHP has designed a ‘beautiful stand-alone store’ in the heart of Milan for Middle Eastern luxury brand Amouage. It is the latest store in a ten-year relationship between JHP and Amouage, and the newest incarnation of its ever-evolving concept.

Apartments, offices, shopping and entertainment: Unibail-­Rodamco Germany celebrates the official launch of the biggest project of the entire corporate group.

The Princesshay Leisure Development, has been given the go ahead following the planning approval of reserved matters by Exeter City Council.

Hammerson announces that Smiggle, the Australian stationery retailer, will make its Irish debut at Dundrum Town Centre in Dublin.

Hammerson and Standard Life Investments, the co-owners of Brent Cross Shopping Centre, announce that a number of retailers at Brent Cross have chosen to significantly expand their presence with upsized stores at the centre.

A shop of the Spanish Tous brand, which is popular all over the world, is to be opened in Galeria Libero in Katowice. It offers conveniently priced luxury jewellery as well as leather accessories.

Hammerson announces that it has successfully completed a beta trial of its new visual search app tool, ‘FindSimilar’, at Brent Cross Shopping Centre, with AI-based technology solutions provider, Cortexica.

Real I.S. has acquired the fully let retail centre situated on Am Lerchenfeld 3-9 in Parsdorf, near Munich.

Hammerson announces that it has secured leading British footwear retailer Russell & Bromley for its iconic Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham.