Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield continues to reduce debt and refocuses on Europe

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Five years after the acquisition of Westfield, URW is accelerating a sale of assets in the U.S.A. to reduce debts. 
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At the end of December, the property company Unibail Rodamco Westfield completed two mall disposals in quick succession. These were The Village near Los Angeles (600,000 sq.m) for US$325 million, and in a joint sale, Westfield Trumbull (125,000 sq.m) and Westfield South Shore (94,400 sq.m) in a US$196-million deal. This brings total asset disposals in the U.S.A. since 2021 to US$1.3 billion. The group still owns 20 shopping malls in the USA. This move illustrates the drastic rationalisation of

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