Big Box Retail

From the moment hardware chain Masters opened its doors, it drained cash. Retail analysts say it was destined to fail from the beginning. It was designed to be the premium version of Bunnings, and so …

Private investors have been betting big on large format retail properties that are home to furniture, hardware and lifestyle brands amid Australia’s surging population growth and limited supply.   New CBRE research found that private …

A struggle to secure prime real estate could be keeping other players out of the supermarket sector, and it may be costing shoppers. More competition in the supermarket sector would lower grocery prices, but Australia’s …

A $20m property sale for the Broadmeadows Homemaker Centre will see the buyer collect $1.4m a year from tenants. And they weren’t the only ones after a piece of the once low-rent suburb.

An eight-figure deal has been nailed down for the inner-city hardware store to make it one of the suburb’s most-expensive properties. See what it sold for.

Toys “R” Us is relaunching its physical store presence in Australia with grand plans to open one of the country’s biggest toy and baby stores in time for the Christmas buying rush.

Sales of shopping malls are in the doldrums but large-format centres targeting household needs are firing.

One of Australia’s biggest homemaker centres has changed hands for a mega $282 million, marking the second largest sale on record for the large format retail sector.

Ikea has opened the first of what could be a number of small format stores in Australia, minus the traditional maze-like showroom and Swedish meatballs.