What a year for CBD Guns! Increases in all tables in the double digit regions; rises in the 20 to 30% and one even in the 50% region; simply phenomenal. This year, we’ve changed our reporting criteria for CBD Guns and included centres that were previously only recorded in the...

What a year for the shopping centre industry and what a year for Big Guns! We list 93 centres this year, with turnover figures shown on 84 of them; the other nine were either under development during the year or stabilising post-development. Of the 84 centres ranked, only five showed...

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...

Mini Guns have a lot to teach us because they are close to the people. Roughly speaking, there are about 14 ‘small centres’ to every Big Gun (many of course are smaller than the 6,000m2 level we start at). So almost all of us live close to a Mini Gun....

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...

This year, we depart from the usual. The Big Guns issue is always ‘pounced upon’ as it’s published. Which centres took the honours in terms of MAT, MAT/m2 and Specialty MAT/m2, is always of paramount interest to our readers. The feature invariably provides the lead story in the business/property sections...

What a difference! A Big Guns issue without any rankings. Just over one year ago, that was, quite simply, inconceivable. This year, SCN made a decision not to publish any MAT...



We talk constantly of ‘place-making’. Our centres are community spaces and ‘places’ within them contribute significantly to the total experience. But as Claire Bowles and Sophie Hutchinson explains, a ‘place’...

The food court as we know it – a mass of seats, surrounded by fast food outlets on the perimeter – is very ill, dying or, according to Suzee Brain,...

Francis Loughran says the ‘mall’ is changing. So much so, in fact, that in the future we might not even call it a ‘mall’ at all. At SCN, we can’t...

SCN invited five women leaders in the field of property research to give us their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future. It’s an interesting feature....

SCN invited five women leaders in the field of property research to give us their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future. It’s an interesting feature....

We invited five women leaders in the field of property research to give us their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future. It’s an interesting feature....

SCN invited five women leaders in the field of property research to give us their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future. It’s an interesting feature....

SCN invited five women leaders in the field of property research to give us their thoughts on the current state of the industry and the future. It’s an interesting feature....

In January 2020 my first daughter was born and my world shifted. She was born with her mother’s determination, and my loud voice. But in March 2020 Australia went into...

“Just think of all the things that have come and gone in our own lifetimes, all the would-be futures we watched age into obsolescence – CD, DVD, answering machine, Walkman,...

There’s good ‘practical advice’ here and it’s COVID-19 related. Leases have been extended to match up to negotiated rent deferral periods. But what about notices regarding ‘end of lease’? What...