Tenant Mix Variety in Regional Shopping Centres: Some UK Empirical Analyses

Tony Yuo, Neil Crosby (), Colin Lizieri and Philip McCann ()
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Neil Crosby: Department of Real Estate & Planning, University of Reading Business School

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Abstract: The variety and quality of the tenant mix within a shopping centre is a key concern in shopping centre management. Tenant mix determines the extent of externalities between outlets in the centre, helps establish the image of the centre and, as a result, determines the attractiveness of the centre for consumers. This then translates into sales and rents. However, the management of tenant mix has largely been based on perceived 'optimum' arrangements and industry rules of thumb. This paper attempts to model the impact of tenant mix on the rent paid by retailers in larger UK shopping centres and, hence, the returns made by shopping centre landlords. It extends work on shopping centre rent determination (see Working Paper 10/03) utilising a database of 148 regional shopping centres in the UK, with detailed data for over 1900 tenants. Econometric models test the relationship between rental levels and the levels of retail concentration and diversity, while controlling for a range of continuous and qualitative characteristics of each tenant, each retail product, and each shopping centre. Factor analysis is then used to extract the core retail and service categories from the tenant lists of the 148 shopping centres. The factor scores from these core retailer factors are then tested against rent payable. The results from the empirical analysis allow us to generate some clear analytical and empirical implications for optimal retail management.

Keywords: retail agglomeration; inter-store externalities; core-periphery model; shopping centre image (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2004
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