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November 12, 2018

Outlet centers have proved to be one of the most successful businesses in the retail market.

Almost simultaneously with ACROSS, Europe’s largest shopping center celebrates a decade of operation. Westfield London reveals how shopping habits have transformed in the British capital over the last 10 years.

From the outbreak of the financial crisis until 2016, hardly any new shopping center openings occurred in Spain and Portugal, reports Francisco Cavaleiro de Ferreira, Managing Director of Multi in Iberia. Now, the markets have recovered.

The retail real estate industry has faced many challenges in the decade since the crash. Most fundamental among them was a textbook case of falling demand facing rising supply.

When we presented the first print issue of ACROSS exactly 10 years ago, an epochal event shook the world economy. The US-investment bank Lehman Brothers went bankrupt with a deafening bang and caused the biggest economic crisis in recent years. The real estate industry was hit particularly hard.