Italy

Corio Italia was able to keep the occupancy rate of its € 1,007.3 million operational retail portfolio at a high level of 99.1% (2008: 98.9%). Like-for-like net rental income growth for the retail portfolio was 3.0%. June: Corio Italia won the IPD EuroProperty Award based on Corio’s three-year total return annualised to December 2008. June: Shopville Le Gru won the ICSC Solal Marketing award in the category Alternative Revenue for the campaign ‘New Horizons Besides The Budget’. June: Shopville Gran Reno won the ICSC Solal Marketing award in the category Sales Promotion for the campaign ‘Reality In Car’.

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Market

Despite the low indebtedness of the household sector and relatively solid financial system providing some shelter for the financial turmoil, the economy nevertheless experienced a sharp contraction.

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Portfolio and valuation

The value of the retail portfolio in Italy fell to € 1,048.5 million at year end 2009 from € 1,128.3 million at year end 2008.

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Rents and occupancy rates

The total theoretical rent in 2009 amounted to € 70.2 million, a 6.0% increase on 2008. Factors influencing this include, on the positive side, the acquisition of the IKEA premises (€ 1.7 million) and indexation, albeit at a lower level than in 2008.

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Visitor numbers and sales

Footfall in Italy is measured for 6 centres, which represent 91% of the Italian portfolio. In 2009 those centres were visited by 44 million people, which is an increase of 0.5% compared to 2008, and implies a total number of visitors for the Italian portfolio of 48 million.

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Pipeline

The pipeline of (re)development projects in Spain amounted to € 22 million (2008: € 15 million), of which € 4.3 million (2008: € 0.8 million) has been invested to date.

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