What can other real estate sectors learn from retail's resurgence?

About this episode

The episode explores insights from the retail sector's resurgence and its implications for other commercial real estate sectors.

Retail is back on top, ending 2025 as the top performing real estate asset class. How can the sector's resurgence bring insights - and valuable lessons - to apply to other commercial real estate sectors? We dive into Stephen Springham's insight series 'Retail Renaissance' to find out. Host Will Matthews, Knight Frank’s Head of Commercial Insight, is joined by Stephen Springham, Head of UK Markets Insight, who brings over 30 years of industry experience. In this episode you'll discover why 'relevance' trumps 'prime', and the importance of addressing underinvestment and complacency. Plus: how to navigate the complexities of repurposing retail spaces, and why strong occupier relationships are vital for a sustainable market.  For more insights like this subscribe to Will Matthews' newsletter for his weekly take on commercial real estate markets.  And you can read Stephen Springham’s Retail Renaissance papers, exploring what other real estate sectors can learn from Retail’s fall and unlikely rise again. This is an episode from Commercially Minded , Knight Frank’s podcast dedicated to unpicking the latest commercial property data. Produced by Rethink Audio Hosted on Acast…

People in this episode

Guest: Stephen Springham

Topics covered

• retail
• real estate
• commercial real estate
• investment insights

Keywords

• relevance
• prime
• underinvestment
• complacency
• repurposing
• occupier relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Retail Renaissance papers

Books & works: Retail Renaissance

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