Sometimes it’s easy to forget that everything we own and every service we use has been acquired as a result of some form of retail. By definition retail, is the selling of goods. Simply put, retail requires a product/service, seller and buyer. Even the biggest ticket item and often intensely emotional purchase, our home, falls in this realm. Although the focus of my blog is the built retail environment – bricks and mortar retail – my recent experience has led me to think about the retail aspect of the real estate sector. Over the past 3 months, having endured the[…]