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What can retail sales data tell us about shopping centre rents?

The strength in headline retail sales volumes is at odds with shopping centres’ poor rental performance. This is due to the fact that sales of items that form the core of shopping centres’ offering have underperformed. Excluding such items suggests that we can expect rental declines of around 1%y/y to persist into early 2016.

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