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ICSC: Shoppers Keep Shopping but Make Sharper Tradeoffs

Via Connect CRE · September 10, 2026
Compiled by Real Estate Trail Editorial · September 10, 2026

Why this matters

Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.

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Excerpt from Connect CRE:
Even as consumers are less concerned about inflation, they’re increasingly selective, value-conscious and attentive to potential financial risks, ICSC said Thursday. Among other findings of ICSC’s new Cons…
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