| According to research by international real estate advisor Savills, the number of high street investment deals has increased from less than 5% of total retail investment in 2007 to 37% in the first three quarters of 2012 in the top eight continental European markets. This has caused yields for high street investments to harden to 4.27%, which is the lowest they have been since 2007.
The research covers Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Poland and shows that in total there has been a significant increase in high street investments since 2009, driven in particular by a jump in transactions in France and Germany in this sector, which account for 90% of the high street deals above €10 million in the survey area...............................................Full Article: Source
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