New trends and opportunities for retail
E-commerce is a rapidly growing phenomena nowadays, and it has intensified due to the recent global health crisis. As a result of the restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, customers were encouraged to implement online shopping and, according to a report by Backslash, TBWA, the future of retail is headed in that direction. It […]
Consumer buying behaviour and adaptability
What will the new normal be? It is still early to know if the consumer will adopt the behaviour from before the COVID-19 crisis one more time or to interpret which changes have come to stay. Undoubtedly, the transformations that consumer behaviour and habits present will need to be reflected in shopping centres and their […]
Key Concepts to Keep Growing
When we think about the future of property management during the post-Covid 19 era, it is essential to consider three key aspects: the omnichannel strategy, flexibility and sustainability. In the new environment the world is facing, it is important to create a balance between the different management channels and make the retail properties more flexible, so […]
The importance of Specialty Leasing in this new era
As has already been broadly discussed, the commercial real estate industry has been forced to adapt to a new and completely different reality from the one we used to know. It can be said with confidence that the most important challenge was finding the way to adapt to uncertainty: professionals in the shopping centre industry […]
A turning point in the retail industry, a new opportunity to grow
The “Becoming Retail” report was presented at the third meeting of the Retail Observatory in Spain, a forum for debate on the distribution and commerce sector organized by Salesforce, the world’s #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. As we have already discussed in one of our articles, one of its conclusions was that it is […]
Let’s Not Go Back to Normal: Let’s Create and Innovate
Throughout the last months, many countries have begun to abandon, little by little, their quarantine measures. As a result, many commercial destinations are reopening and facing a different reality than the one we all knew. According to Chapman Taylor, the global practice of award-winning architects and master planners who specialise, among other things, in Office […]
Making a difference and generating savings: the importance of environmentally friendly practices
After analysing the reasons why the world got to the current situation, it is time to consider how we are going to proceed from now on. If this pandemic has taught us anything, beyond the preventive measures that we incorporated day after day and the importance of using empathy as a tool to safeguard the […]
Time to evolve or perish
New generations always bring new expectations and behaviours, and millennials are no exception. Beyond the acceleration of different shopping habits, such as e-commerce, as a result of the pandemic, the real estate industry needs to think forward and take this new generation into account. Millennials are gradually becoming the largest consumer group, which turns them […]
Omnichannel strategy and its importance in the industry
Omnichannality is a concept that is increasingly present in the commercial real estate industry and has been highlighted even more since the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic. But what does it imply and why is it so present in today’s companies? To put it simply, it consists of a multichannel approach to sales that focus, […]
The Commercial Real Estate Situation and the Need for Innovation
It is well known that with the growing digitalization and the continuous development of technology, stores are increasingly turning to online operation. Searching for a product, looking at the different options, analyzing their similarities and differences, choosing the desired item and ordering it with just one click is a method chosen by many customers. The […]
Embracing Digital Transformation
It is no surprise that the pandemic has made the commercial real estate industry, mainly characterized by physical locations, flip the script and implement new strategies in order to avoid being left behind. As many companies easily shifted their operations online, the industry needs to become flexible and adapt to the digital transformation the world […]
Real estate is undergoing a massive era of disruption
A year after the pandemic hit and as the distribution of vaccines unrolls, lockdown measures are fortunately receding and the real estate industry has found a completely new environment. Landlords and tenants now face new challenges, working conditions and customer needs. Real estate transactions expert Braiden Goodchild, Director of PwC, provides an outlook on real […]