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New York’s Fifth Avenue Has World’s Priciest Retail Rents

Stretch of Midtown Manhattan street takes top spot from Hong Kong.

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An 11-block slice of New York’s Fifth Avenue has displaced a shopping district in Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive street on which to rent retail space. That’s according to real estate consulting firm Cushman & Wakefield’s newly released “Main Streets Across the World” report, which said rents on Fifth Avenue (between 49th and 60th streets) averaged $2,000 per square foot/per year.

Hong Kong dropped out of the top spot to second place, with Tsim Sha Tsui district overtaking Causeway Bay in 2020 to become the city-state’s most expensive precinct, with rents of $1436 per square foot/per year.

Within the Americas, all but one of the top 10 most-expensive markets are in the U.S. Here are the rankings of those markets, including New York at the top:

1 New York City Upper Fifth Avenue (49th to 60th Sts) $2,000
2 Los Angeles Rodeo Drive (Beverly Hills) $900
3 San Francisco Union Square $495
4 Las Vegas Las Vegas Blvd. $425
5 Chicago North Michigan Avenue $425
6 Boston Newbury Street $400
7 Toronto Bloor Street $250
8 Miami Lincoln Road $225
9 Palm Beach Worth Avenue $200
10 Austin South Congress (SoCo) $200

Based on such findings, the report says “‘retail apocalypse’ is no longer the term du jour. While we still face economic volatility, the conversation has shifted to retail’s future — an omnichannel world in which the most successful brands understand their customers on a new level and meet them where they are.”

Download the full report here.

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