Property Type

Retail

With local-area insights and data-driven solutions, we partner with investors and retailers alike to stand out in Singapore’s competitive retail real estate market.

What We Do

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CBRE’s Retail Services team offers a comprehensive range of tailored solutions designed to help both investors and retailers achieve a competitive advantage in the Singapore market. Pairing our robust data with global trend forecasts, and intimate local market knowledge, is our defining difference. Think beyond generic buying, selling, and leasing to integrated full-service solutions designed to deliver on your organizational objectives.

Our services are tailored to accelerate investor lead and lease times with in-depth competitor analysis to demographic insights and consulting on market positioning, and retailer mix. For retailers, we provide local area branding, marketing, and launch advice.

141.7M

Square Feet Managed in APAC
$3.9B

Transaction Value in APAC
~20 years

Average Experience of Advisors

What We Offer

Our strength in the retail industry is supported by our ongoing relationship with Singapore’s leading retailers, landlords, developers, as well as government bodies. Our high percentage of returning retailers is a testament to our ability to provide outstanding results consistently. By leveraging Matterport’s virtual tour technologies, we create immersive 3D tours and 2D photos and floorplans to enhance property performance reviews and create robust marketing campaigns.

Fashion boutiques, specialty retailers, casual dining, fine dining, gyms, and other retailers trust CBRE’s team to identify a location that positions them for maximum success. Beyond our local-area expertise, we leverage industry-leading technology to enable strategic decision-making. From concept to branding, market-entry, rollout, and more. We’re proud to lease to a diverse range of retailers. This includes locally owned concepts and regional and global brands alike, meeting their needs for flagship, single, and multi-market locations.

At CBRE, we offer a comprehensive suite of retail advisory services designed to empower your investment decisions and optimize your property’s potential. Utilizing our consumer analytics tool, Calibrate, we provide in-depth consumer profiling, including retail spending behaviors, segmented by property type, location, and real-time market trends.

Our Integrated Approach to Retail Businesses:

GIS Analytics: Leverage geographic information systems to analyze spatial data and market trends, helping you identify prime retail locations.
Supply Chain Services: Optimize your supply chain operations to ensure efficient inventory management and cost-effective logistics.
Transaction & Portfolio Services: Manage your retail transactions and portfolio with precision, ensuring maximum return on investment.
Project/Property Management: Oversee your retail projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget.
Facilities Management: Maintain and enhance your retail properties with our expert facilities management services, ensuring they remain competitive and attractive to retailers.

When paired with a competitive analysis and nearby retailer mix comparison, you are empowered to make informed investment decisions, selecting locations primed for maximum potential. Ongoing, we utilize insights from our proprietary data to help you make informed lifecycle decisions, positioning your property to stand out from the local competition.

Why Choose Us

Full-Service Solutions

Our service suite is tailored to accelerate investor lead and lease times. For retailers, we provide local area branding, marketing, and launch advice.

Proprietary Insights

Our extensive local-area retail lease portfolio provides real-time industry and real estate market trends. This data is paired with advanced regional and global market trends.

Experienced Team

Our Retail Services Team’s brokers each bring over two decades of specialized retail leasing experience, providing you with the long-term commercial connections and insider insights required to succeed.

Our Expertise Spans Across All Retail Categories and Property Types:

Banking Centers
Community Centers
Convenience
Food & Beverage
Grocery Anchored
High Street
Luxury

Mall & Large Format
Mixed-use
Net Lease Properties
Portfolios
Power Centers

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

CBRE’s global network transcends borders. This enables us to tap into international sources for referrals and extended searches. Paired with our proprietary retail market data, exclusive consulting services, and long-standing relationships with retailers, developers, and government bodies—we pinpoint targeted high street and mall locations. This includes access to prime on and off-market investor and retailer opportunities. Our full suite of consulting services is listed in the next 2 FAQs.

There’s risk in all investments, but our market can be highly lucrative. Our role is to minimize your risks by providing a comprehensive retail real estate service suite.
Investors and investment groups partner with CBRE to take advantage of risk-reducing investment lifecycle services.
This includes:

Catchment area analysis
Competitor analysis
Development and redevelopment consultancy
Design layout and space planning review
Project marketing and management
Feasibility studies
International study tours and global benchmarking
Pre-lease preparation and leasing transaction services
Marketing strategy
Market analysis and information
Performance review of existing properties
Repositioning and rejuvenation advisory services
Target market identification
Trade and retailer mix recommendations
Technology integration

CBRE is as invested in your success as you are. As such, we partner with retailers, providing all services required to accurately assess your industry’s footprint in the Singapore market and pinpoint precisely where to open your new retail site—from in-depth market analysis to marketing tailored to enable smooth market entry. Many retailers choose CBRE for opening multiple locations across Singapore, and in all key international markets.
Our services include:

Account and transaction management
Competitor and rental benchmarking
Lease audits
Local-to-global expansion strategies
Location and demographic analysis
Market comps
Market updates and trend analysis
Market entry and store roll-out strategy
Pattern identification and selection
Portfolio review and network optimization
Renewals and disposals
Site selection and negotiation

Yes. We analyze the building and local area to enable competition without cannibalization. Our retailer mix advisory services are driven by in-depth real-time data. By minimizing in-building and nearby competing concepts, we promote long-term retail real estate tenancy.

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Our Leaders

Vivek Kaul

Managing Director, Head of Retail Leasing, Advisory Services, Asia

Phone +91 124 4659700

Mobile +65 6224 8181

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Joan Chen

Head of Retail Services, Singapore

Lic. CEA No.: R003863Z

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Retail

What We Do

Connect with an Expert Advisor

141.7M

$3.9B

~20 years

What We Offer

Retail Investor Services

Retail Occupier Services

Retail Advisory Services

Why Choose Us

Our Expertise Spans Across All Retail Categories and Property Types:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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Is commercial property a good investment in Singapore?

How do you increase the odds of a retailer’s success?

Do you help investors determine the ideal tenant mix for retail assets?

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