CFS
Retail Fund is the retail landlord for Chadstone Shopping Centre and a range of
high profile centres around Australia including Northland and various DFO
stores.
The trust
has announced a 29.7% fall in net profit following a tough trading year and
property revaluations. Modest rental growth for existing tenants was offset by
a 7.5% reduction in new lease rents (The Age). The trust has reported the
continuation of its 5% automatic yearly rent increase for specialty stores that
were re-leased. Including replacements, the overall re-leasing spread for the
year was -1.1%.
Other
features of the trust's report included a decision to cut back on Chadstones
next expansion phase due to softer trading in apparel and discretionary items,
and a remix of tenants in the portfolio with fashion making way for technology
and retail services. Retail sales performance included a healthy 7.8% rise for
food, 3.9% for mobile phones, 5.8% for retail services, and a 1.1% fall for
apparel. DFO stores showed 9.4% growth.
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COMMENTS:
26/8/2013 10:02 Rents "Automatic yearly rent increases need to be seriously questioned. They are nothing more than a rent increase that should be negotiated at the commencement of a lease and if necessary adjusted for CPI variations (up or down). Landlords want their cake and eat it too. They want to tie tenants into a lease, which is designed to protect both parties, but then up the rent on a random basis during the leases currency without any consideration of business conditions. It is a rip-off and no more obvious than at QVM where PE Traders experience annual rent increases based (loosely) on market conditions whilst their SL counterparts pay automatic increases which cannot be justified by current market conditions. This means that SL Traders are now paying more rent than PE Traders. If there are to be automatic increases for SL licences it is time they were tied to CPI." - Greg Smith
Have Your Say - click here
COMMENTS:
26/8/2013 10:02 Rents "Automatic yearly rent increases need to be seriously questioned. They are nothing more than a rent increase that should be negotiated at the commencement of a lease and if necessary adjusted for CPI variations (up or down). Landlords want their cake and eat it too. They want to tie tenants into a lease, which is designed to protect both parties, but then up the rent on a random basis during the leases currency without any consideration of business conditions. It is a rip-off and no more obvious than at QVM where PE Traders experience annual rent increases based (loosely) on market conditions whilst their SL counterparts pay automatic increases which cannot be justified by current market conditions. This means that SL Traders are now paying more rent than PE Traders. If there are to be automatic increases for SL licences it is time they were tied to CPI." - Greg Smith