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In November, gifting is all any retailer wants to talk about. But come January, it's a forgotten topic. And that's a missed marketing opportunity for retailers, especially department stores...

Some companies favor short-term leases to compensate for bad timing. Rather than apply a strategic approach to their real estate, they tend to be reactionary, taking space in times of growth and disposing of it in times of contraction...

Gary Safady's working the crowd hard. Animated and tieless, he's manning the O&S Holdings booth at a jammed ICSC conference in New York, touting the attractions of his company's big new developments, Louisiana Riverwalk in Bossier City, La....

The hospitality industry, already reeling financially from a fallout in business and leisure travel, is now dealing with another blow: the highest insurance costs in five years. To help combat soaring rates, hotel owners are opting for policies...

Competition for net-lease properties among investors has grown so intense that they are increasingly seeking out non-investment grade tenants to enter into sale-leaseback transactions. The risks are certainly greater, but so too are the returns...

The head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s German operations has resigned, and two other JLL executives have been fired in connection with a criminal investigation...

Office building construction across the country has come to a screeching halt thanks to a mounting vacancy rate — 16.5% as of the second quarter, according to New York-based research firm Reis Inc. But multi-tenant space isn't the only game in...

There's no doubt that warehouse/distribution facilities are in favor among investors. In the premier markets — Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New Jersey — big-box industrial facilities with credit tenants on leases 10 years or longer...

Is it better to renovate or rebuild? That is the question facing developers and retailers as aging shopping centers and freestanding stores need to be either spruced up — or bulldozed and rebuilt from scratch...