What a year for Little Guns! Last year, an MAT of $300 million got you into the Top 10; this year, you needed $300 million to get into the Top 20! Perron Group’s Belmont Forum, managed by JLL had another cracking year recording an 8.7% increase in MAT to take...

COVID continued to affect some centres well into the reporting year for Little Guns (1st October to 30th September), so it’s unwise to read too much into the increases or decreases across the board. This year we feature 83 centres; Vicinity has withheld figures on its NSW and Victorian centres, telling...

As lockdowns ease across the country and as the public, in general, begins to return to some sort of new normal, centres across the country are experiencing 100% ‘open shops’. Yet broadly speaking, comparisons of turnover statistics, increases and decreases, this year versus last year, don’t have much validity. We...

Belmont Forum retains its Number 1 place on the MAT (Moving Annual Turnover) ladder with a creditable $386 million, a small improvement on last year which, in these times, shows the strength of the centre. These are turbulent times and of course, the COVID factor has hit some centres, while...

Another great year for Little Guns. We feature 94 centres this year in comparison to 96 last year. Six centres, including the top MAT performer for the past several years running – Westfield Helensvale – are not ranked due to development activity. With a massive increase in MAT of 12.5%,...

Another great year for Little Gun centres! We rank 96 centres this year; all centres with a GLA of more than 20,000m2 but less than 50,000m2. In a year of low inflation, almost zero wage growth across the nation, and analysts forecasting gloom and doom in the retail sector, the...

We always think that Little Guns give you a real picture of what’s happening ‘retail wise’ in our centres – actual shopping that is: buying everyday stuff as distinct from leisure shopping. Big Guns change dramatically; the food and beverage component, for example, has expanded enormously in the past few...

One thing you can always bet on with Little Guns: there’s always action! In terms of MAT, MAT/m2 and Specialty MAT/m2, there’s a new Number 1 on every ranking! Former MAT Number 1, Mandurah Forum comes out of the Little Gun rankings this year as it’s under redevelopment and on...