In a constantly evolving retail landscape, clients rely on Urbis for our deep retail industry expertise and strategic insights. With over 30 years of experience, we partner closely with clients to transform spaces into vibrant, successful retail destinations.

Make confident strategic decisions, backed by evidence

We’re a trusted advisor to leading retail investors, asset managers and developers. Over the past decade, we’ve been engaged by 100% of Australian-listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) and have worked on over 95% of all regional and sub-regional shopping centres around the country, as well as over 50% of all supermarket-based centres across the country.

In a sector where the landscape is constantly evolving, clients need confidence in the knowledge informing their investment decisions. We use our evidence-led approach, combining foresight with practical strategy, to validate clients’ development propositions, helping them unlock opportunities and reduce risk.

Benefit from multidisciplinary insights and market-ready advice

With experts across Australia, Asia and the Middle East, our multi-disciplinary team brings together deep sector knowledge in retail asset management, urban economics, consumer research, development management, planning, design, sustainability and strategic investment advisory.

We work with leading retail industry clients and experts, combining granular and big-picture analysis. Our actionable insights form the basis of our locally specific guidance to clients, helping them realise long-term ambitions and improve their retail strategy and retail performance.

Independent insights you can act on

Every recommendation we make uses our independent, objective research and proprietary datasets, including the Urbis Shopping Centre Benchmarks. This uniquely powerful tool allows us to understand asset performance to help clients make the best possible decisions.

Our transparent retail analysis helps clients cut through noise and complexity, empowering better decision-making and bolstering stakeholder engagement. We frequently undertake due diligence of acquisitions, and are relied on to share our views and forecasts on asset classes, sectors and markets to investment committees and capital partners. Urbis’ independence is essential to the strength of our reputation across the retail sector.

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