Woolworths

German supermarket discounter Kaufland’s shock decision to abandon the Australian market – quitting before opening a single store, after devoting almost $500 million to the launch – is a positive for the grocery sector, with Coles and Metcash the biggest winners as they were viewed as most likely to lose market share to the foreign entrant.

Seymour’s number one supermarket is to be put up for auction for the first time in 27 years, at a time when supermarkets continue to light up the commercial property investment market.

Adelaide’s retail investment market is hotting up after a shopping complex in the city’s north went under the hammer for more than $21 million.

It’s the opportunity entry-level investors have been waiting for: the chance to snap up a major service station site leased to a blue-chip international tenant for less than $1 million. The forthcoming auction of a …

A focus on Woolworths, Coles and growing German chain Aldi is paying off for Charter Hall’s listed retail property fund as it looks to up its exposure to city markets.

Woolworths has sold a suburban Perth shopping centre for $27.3million, but in a lucrative win for the new owners the supermarket giant could stay on as a tenant for another 60 years.

The rush of shopping centres being launched onto the market in the Geelong region remains frenzied, with the Woolworths-anchored Curlewis Shopping Centre at Clifton Springs the latest to be put up for sale.

The procession of major Geelong retail assets to hit the market has continued, with Lara’s new Woolworths supermarket the latest to test investor appetites.

Woolworths will sell off a near-new West Australian shopping centre it opened just over a year ago, as the supermarket giant continues divesting a number of its recently-built retail assets. After offloading another WA centre …