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High-end retailers are staking out Queen St's waterfront end, a trend one real estate expert predicts will strengthen.

Chris Dibble, research and consulting manager at Jones Lang LaSalle, says the harbour end of Auckland's premier shopping strip has become a magnet for luxury retailers.

Gucci and Louis Vuitton trade side-by-side, joining local jewellery giant Michael Hill in the recently-refurbished 1900s Imperial and Everybody's character buildings.

Clothing specialist Tarocash is leaving premises near the Queen St/Wyndham St intersection and moving to the Customs St/Queen St corner opposite Queen Elizabeth II Square.

That fitout at 22 Queen St has been under way for weeks, replacing Champions of the World, the All Blacks' official store. Champions still has an outlet open on Queen St, almost directly opposite its old premises.

Dibble says Kathmandu will move into Tarocash's old Queen St shop, giving it a Queen St presence beneath its large-format store on level one of 151 Queen St, premises owned by AMP NZ Office Trust, up an elevator off Queen St.