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Investment volume in retail parks rose by around 53% in 2025 to €3.1 billion, making them responsible for just over 48% of nationwide retail investments (compared to a 32% market share in 2024). This is according to the Grocery Investment Market Report, which BNP Paribas Real Estate has now published once again.

Driven by new expectations, mixed-use thinking, and a renewed focus on social value, retail is emerging again as a key force in shaping vibrant, resilient cities. Best practice examples demonstrate how thriving urban retail real estate destinations can be designed.

In an exclusive ACROSS interview, Roman Müller, Head of Investment Management Retail at Union Investment, explains why early revaluation, operational strength, and disciplined positioning are driving renewed institutional interest in retail real estate — and why further concentration in the European retail market is inevitable.

European retail real estate closed 2025 in positive territory, according to Altus Group. With values rising 1.6% year-on-year, as improving cashflows and stabilizing yields signaled a gradual recovery following a two-year market correction.

German retail is proving resilient in a challenging economic environment, yet the sector continues to undergo significant structural change. This is the conclusion of the retail section of the ZIA Spring Real Estate Report 2026, prepared by BBE Handelsberatung in cooperation with the IPH Group.

The UK government plans to introduce new measures to deal with business rates from April this year. Andrea Barnes, Head of Business Rates at Form Property, believes that retailers, pubs and restaurants are quietly heading towards a business rates reckoning – and some won’t survive it.

Vukile Property Fund (JSE: VKE), the leading consumer-focused specialist retail real estate investment trust (REIT), has acquired a 35% stake in Pradera Limited, a leading specialist retail property investment fund and asset manager with a 25-year track record across the UK, Europe, China and the Middle East.

Union Investment has acquired the Gewerbepark Stadlau in Vienna. Seller is the listed real estate company Nextensa from Brussels. The retail park is located in Donaustadt, Vienna’s 22nd district, and is therefore within one of the city’s busiest commercial areas. The purchase was made for an open-ended special real estate fund managed by Union Investment. The purchase price is around EUR 36 million.