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Slovakia: Retail Park Expansion Continues as Prime Shopping Center Rents Rise

The second quarter of 2026 saw three Slovakian retail completions, delivering approximately 12,000 sq m of gross leasable area.

Slovakia’s retail real estate market remains characterized by strong demand for established shopping centers and continued expansion of the retail park segment. According to CBRE Slovakia’s latest Retail Figures Q2 2026, prime shopping center rents increased by 11% year-on-year to €78 per sqm per month, while prime retail park rents remained stable at €16 per […]

Poland’s Retail Market Rebounds as Retail Parks Drive Growth

Retail parks drive new supply as retail sales and footfall continue to grow in Poland.

Poland’s retail real estate market recorded a strong increase in new supply during the second quarter of 2026, with 134,500 sqm of new retail space delivered. According to BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, retail parks remain the dominant development format, accounting for the largest share of both newly completed projects and schemes currently under construction. […]

New M&S Food opens at Redevco’s Poole Retail Park

Redevco’s Poole Retail Park in Branksome has welcomed M&S Food after the iconic British retailer signed a 15-year lease for the former Homebase unit, comprising 44,690 sq ft, to take the park to 94% let.

The new fresh market-style foodhall offers the full range of M&S Food, and benefits from 199 car parking spaces, 58 cycle spaces and four electric vehicle charger points. Poole Retail Park is already home to a host of national retailers, including John Lewis, Next Home, Home Bargains and Decathlon. The park is ideally located with […]

Frasers Group Acquires Harvey Nichols

Frasers Group has acquired British luxury department store chain Harvey Nichols, securing one of the UK’s most recognizable premium retail brands after the business entered administration.

by Frasers Group has acquired British luxury department store chain Harvey Nichols, securing one of the UK’s most recognizable premium retail brands after the business entered administration. The acquisition includes Harvey Nichols’ six UK stores, including its recently refurbished Knightsbridge flagship in London, as well as locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, and Edinburgh. The […]

Rioja Estates Submits Plans for £150 Million Quayside Regeneration Scheme

The proposed mixed-use development in Great Yarmouth combines outlet retail, leisure, hospitality, housing and public spaces in a bid to transform the town’s North Quay waterfront.

by Rioja Estates and Willmott Dixon Developments have submitted a planning application for Quayside, a £150 million mixed-use regeneration project that aims to transform Great Yarmouth’s North Quay into a new retail, leisure and tourism destination. The proposed development would bring together outlet retail, leisure, hospitality, residential uses and public realm improvements on a prominent […]

NEPI Rockcastle Expands Beyond CEE with First Spanish Acquisition

The acquisition of MegaPark Barakaldo near Bilbao marks NEPI Rockcastle’s first investment outside Central and Eastern Europe and signals a new phase in the company’s growth strategy.

by NEPI Rockcastle has acquired MegaPark Barakaldo, one of northern Spain’s largest shopping and leisure destinations, for a net purchase price of €252 million. The transaction marks the company’s entry into the Spanish market and its first investment outside Central and Eastern Europe, where it has built the region’s largest retail real estate platform. The […]

Aareal Bank Arranges €128 Million Facility for Lighthouse Properties

Aareal Bank has arranged a €128 million top-up facility for Lighthouse Properties to refinance and expand the financing of its Spanish retail portfolio.

The facility adds two shopping centers, Torrecardenas in Almería and Alcalá Magna in Madrid, to Lighthouse Properties’ existing Nexus Portfolio financing. The bank’s total exposure to the five-property portfolio now stands at €334 million. Torrecardenas comprises 61,238 sqm across a retail park and a two-level mall, while Alcalá Magna provides 32,743 sqm of retail space. […]

Report: Kaufland Acquires Galeria Property in Viernheim

Kaufland has reportedly acquired the Galeria property adjoining the Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum in Viernheim. The reported transaction could change the plans for the site, where sister company Lidl had previously announced a new store.

According to Immobilien Zeitung, Kaufland Stiftung has acquired the Galeria building in Viernheim. The property is directly connected to the Rhein-Neckar-Zentrum (RNZ). Neither Kaufland nor the Schwarz Group has publicly confirmed the reported acquisition so far. The development is particularly noteworthy because Schwarz Group’s discount subsidiary Lidl announced in November 2025 that it would open […]

Trade Estates to Acquire 50% of Sofia South Ring Mall

Greek retail real estate investor Trade Estates has agreed to acquire a 50% stake in Sofia South Ring Mall in Bulgaria for €49.35 million.

The transaction will strengthen the company’s presence in Bulgaria and add one of the country’s established shopping center destinations to its portfolio. Trade Estates will acquire the stake currently held by Fourlis Group through its newly established Cyprus subsidiary. The transaction remains subject to the applicable related-party approval procedures. Sofia South Ring Mall has approximately […]

NEPI Rockcastle Secures €250 Million Green Loan from EBRD

NEPI Rockcastle has secured a €250 million green term loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, providing long-term financing for green investments across its Central and Eastern European portfolio.

NEPI Rockcastle has secured a €250 million green term loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), adding long-term financing capacity as the retail real estate company continues to invest across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The senior unsecured facility matures in 2034 and is fully committed and available for drawdown until the […]

Next commits to major investment at its Cribbs store, UK

Bath and Body Works is also set to open its first South West store after signing at Cribbs

UK retail favorite Next has announced plans for a major investment at its Cribbs store as it commits to an upsize and refit of its fashion space. Next will upsize its clothing store to a larger 47,000 sq ft space at Cribbs Mall allowing the retailer to showcase more of its fashion and accessories offering. […]

Appeninn Acquires Polish Retail Portfolio Worth Over €100 Million

Hungarian real estate investor Appeninn has completed the acquisition of Dekada’s Polish retail portfolio, adding 11 retail assets and more than 53,000 sq m of leasable space to its growing Central European platform.

by Appeninn announced the completion of the acquisition of Dekada SA’s retail portfolio in Poland, one of the largest retail real estate transactions in the country in recent years. The portfolio comprises seven retail parks and four shopping centers located across eleven Polish cities and has a reported value of more than €100 million. The […]

BWP expands Frasers Plus remit with East Mids appointment

BWP Group has been appointed to deliver the integrated marketing remit for Frasers Plus Designer Outlet East Midlands.

The appointment further strengthens BWP’s growing reputation as one of the UK’s leading specialist agencies for outlet and destination marketing, following a period of sustained growth and multiple new business wins across the retail and leisure sector. As consumers continue to prioritize value-led premium shopping and experience-driven destinations, outlet retail remains one of the strongest-performing […]

Spotlight on Entertainment: ACSP Congress 2026 /// Vienna, Austria, 13.10.2026.

This year, the ACSP Congress 2026 installed by the Austrian Council of Shopping Places (ACSP) is returning to Vienna in October, with a special focus on experiential and entertainment offerings.

Experiential offerings are becoming key aspects of a retail mix, and ACSP Congress 2026 is putting the spotlight exactly on this matter with the annual congress’ theme being “Shopping Center Reloaded – Let me Entertain You”. What was deemed accessory or novelty a decade ago, such as escape rooms or indoor golf courses, are now […]

Time Out Brings Its Flagship Market Home to London

Time Out Market will open its first London location in 2028, transforming a landmark building at Piccadilly Circus into the global flagship of its growing food hall portfolio. The project underlines the increasing role of food, culture and entertainment in shaping successful urban destinations.

by More than a decade after launching its first food market in Lisbon, Time Out is bringing the concept back to the city where the brand was founded. In partnership with The Crown Estate, the company will open its first London Time Out Market at 10 Piccadilly in summer 2028, creating what it describes as […]

New Book by Ibrahim Ibrahim Explores the Next Evolution of Physical Retail

In his new book Culture Stores, Ibrahim Ibrahim and Koral Ibrahim argue that the future of physical retail lies not in transactions, but in creating places where people connect, participate and belong.

by Four years after publishing Future Ready Retail, retail strategist and placemaking expert Ibrahim Ibrahim has returned with a new perspective on the changing role of physical stores. Co-authored with his son Koral Ibrahim, founder of brand consultancy The Ready House, Culture Stores: Redefining the Shopping Space through Connection to Community explores how retail environments […]

Bold moves, not replacement: F&B in placemaking

F&B concepts that redefine placemaking — and why developers cannot ignore them anymore.

by Walk into any successful destination today — Dubai, Singapore, Austin, Copenhagen — and the shift is unmistakable: people no longer use physical space the way they did five years ago. Assets that fail to adapt won’t collapse dramatically; they’ll fade quietly into irrelevance. The data confirms it. McKinsey reports 70% of consumers now prioritize […]

A new model for saving local food businesses

Rather than opening new locations, Cuisyn and Haus der Bäcker are preserving restaurants and bakeries without succession plans. Their acquisition model safeguards jobs, local identity, and vibrant city centers.

Vacant storefronts remain one of the biggest challenges facing city centers across Europe. Yet many restaurants, cafés, and bakeries are not closing because demand has disappeared. Instead, owners often struggle to find successors willing to take over established businesses. Germany-based companies Cuisyn and Haus der Bäcker are tackling this issue with an unusual growth strategy. […]

The end of retail-only destinations

Homeira Amiri, co-founder of the think tank Future of the Guest Economy explores, how F&B is reshaping the value logic of shopping centers.

By Homeira Amiri, Future of the Guest Economy Shopping centers are no longer competing through retail alone. In an increasingly standardized market, gastronomy has become one of the last true differentiators of physical destinations. What was once treated as a supporting function is now evolving into a strategic layer of asset performance.  Its economic significance […]

CC Real Expands Croatian Management Platform

CC Real has taken over the management of Avenue Mall Zagreb, further expanding its shopping center management platform in Croatia and highlighting the growing importance of specialized asset and property management across Central and Southeastern Europe.

by CC Real has assumed management responsibility for Avenue Mall Zagreb on behalf of its new owner, InterCapital Real Estate Fund Alfa, which recently acquired the property. The mandate became effective on August 1 and further strengthens CC Real’s position as one of the region’s largest specialists in retail real estate management. Located in the […]

BIG Poland acquires Grodzisk Sfera Park, expands to 13 properties

BIG Poland adds the 11,000 sqm Grodzisk Sfera Park retail park to its portfolio, marking its second asset in the Mazovia region and bringing total GLA to nearly 258,000 sqm.

BIG Poland has acquired Grodzisk Sfera Park, an 11,000 sqm GLA retail park in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. The property becomes the company’s 13th asset in Poland and its second in Mazovia, joining BIG Łubna. The fully leased park comprises 19 stores and service units and serves a catchment area of more than 100,000 residents. With the […]

Umdasch names new CEO for The Store Makers’ Division

Umdasch Group appoints Dr. Christian Herbinger as CEO of its store construction division, succeeding Silvio Kirchmair effective January 2027.

Umdasch Group is preparing a leadership change for its store construction division, umdasch The Store Makers. Dr. Christian Herbinger MBA will join the company as managing director on August 1, 2026, and will take over as CEO of the division on January 1, 2027. Longtime CEO Silvio Kirchmair will leave the company at the end […]

Canadian Couche-Tard to acquire majority stake in Żabka

Transaction represents largest acquisition in Couche-Tard history and establishes controlling position in one of Europe’s leading convenience and digital retail platforms.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., a global leader in convenience and mobility, announced that it plans to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Żabka Group, Poland’s largest convenience retailer. Couche-Tard will initiate a voluntary tender offer through its wholly owned subsidiary, Circle K Polska sp. z.o.o., at a price of PLN 32.00 (equivalent of […]

Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier welcomes new Lindt flagship boutique

Lindt will open a 330-square-meter flagship boutique at Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier in Q4 2026.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is adding a new Lindt flagship boutique to Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier. The Swiss chocolatier, founded in Zurich, will occupy a corner location on the ground floor along the district’s central promenade, on the banks of the River Elbe. At approximately 330 square meters, it will be one of Lindt’s largest stores in Germany. The opening […]