For the Better
May 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Two of Europe's biggest commercial real estate firms have united to blaze a retail future together. Paris-based Rodamco Europe N.V. and Rotterdam-based Unibail Holdings S.A. is now the largest pan-European commercial real estate company...
Going for Germany
May 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
GE Real Estate, one of the more prominent American players in the European real estate market, has expanded its retail holdings in Germany. In late March, the firm bought 15 retail centers there for approximately $40 million....
Our Men in Nanjing
Mar 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Chattanooga-based mall REIT CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. is making its first foray overseas with an investment in the subsidiaries of the Jinsheng Group, a Nanjing, China-based shopping center developer....
Were's the McSchnitzel?
Feb 1, 2007
There's been plenty of opposition to McDonald's in recent years. The German village of Geschendorf came up with a new angle. The village has stopped a McDonald's from opening on its outskirts because it doesn't sell sausages and sauerkraut....
Communists at Wal-Mart?
Jan 1, 2007
Employees at the China headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have set up a Communist Party branch. ...
TRAFFIC PATTERNS
Jan 1, 2007
YIELDS AHEAD European retail properties deliver yields as low as 2.75 percent in Dublin and as high as 17 percent in Moscow. Annual rents also vary greatly....
ASIA: Beyond China and India
Aug 1, 2006, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Western Developers are revisiting the Pacific Rim and looking for investment oppurtunities...
Latin Flavor
Jul 1, 2006, Elaine Misonzhnik
Jones Lang is moving into the Dominican Republic having gained leasing and marketing assignments in Santo Domingo...
North Wind
Jul 1, 2006, By Albert Warson
Mixed-use projects are beginning to proliferate in Canada as the trend gripping America crosses the border...
One Foot Forward
May 1, 2006, Dominic Perella
India taking baby steps on the road to foreign retail investment...
Running to Catch Up
May 1, 2006, By Jennifer Popovec
Europe, Asia are working hard to develop REIT markets...
Saks in China?
May 1, 2006, David Sokol
Saks Fifth Avenue has opened an 300,000 square foot store in Shanghai China...
Arab Baby Phat
May 1, 2006
Phat Fashions opened its first three flagship stores in the Middle East and has plans to build 14 more. The first stores opened in the Mall of Emirates,...
Black Gold Rush
May 1, 2006
And you thought all the action was in Dubai. In Abu Dhabi, the capital city of United Arab Emirates, Sorough Real Estate is transforming Reem Island into...
Cherry Picking
May 1, 2006, By Jennifer Popovec
Retail investors crave global exposure so much that spending inside the US is dropping...
Feast in the Mideast
May 1, 2006, By Steve Bergsman
Everything is bigger in Dubai, including the malls...
Foreign Intrigue
May 1, 2006
While capital from around the globe is flowing into U.S. commercial real estate, not all foreign investors are big fans of retail. ...
Globe Trotting
May 1, 2006
Though the U.S. is by far the dominant market for public real estate companies, more and more nations are following. TOP 10 REIT CONSTITUENTS Company...
The Hot Sands of China?
May 1, 2006, Marc Hequet
Las Vegas gaming company to roll out more retail to Macao...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
May 1, 2006
Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. has acquired The Bear Factory Ltd., a U.K.-based stuffed animal retailer, and Amsbra Ltd., Build-A-Bear Workshop's franchisee...
International Studies
May 1, 2006, By John Devine
Competing in today's fast-paced real estate market isn't easy, but there are steps you can take to secure desirable properties all over the world. At...
How Do You Say Saks in Chinese?
Apr 19, 2006
This is not your grandmother’s Saks Fifth Avenue. For starters, it’s 300,000 square feet, about triple the average size of an existing store. Then there’s the line of revelers standing in line to press somebody else’s flesh in the nightclub. Oh, and there’s one more thing: The quintessentially American Saks is in Shanghai. China....
Flying South
Apr 1, 2006, David Bodamer
Kimco Realty Corp.'s Puerto Rico play shows their new strategy...
Kimco’s Puerto Rico Play Shows New Strategy
Mar 22, 2006
Kimco Realty Corp.’s entrance into Puerto Rico this week fits into two of the company’s main growth strategies: international expansion and a growing focus on driving revenue through asset management rather than through solely buying and selling properties....
