Retail’s return: Brookfield offers big box CMBS

After the worst year ever for UK retail, plunging valuations and landlord implosions, Brookfield is testing the capital markets’ appetite for a bet on the sector’s recovery, launching a CMBS deal backed by nine UK retail parks. The launch came on the same day that the UK government announced that landlords would be banned from evicting non-paying tenants for a further nine months. Owen Sanderson reports.