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New Zealand’s leading shopping centres delivered another year of solid performance, highlighting the resilience and appeal of the country’s top...

Australia’s major shopping centres continued to deliver strong sales growth in 2025, with momentum at the top end of the...

This year’s Little Guns report ranks the performance of 97 Australian retail centres with a gross lettable area (GLA) between 20,000 sqm...

SCN’s annual Mini Guns report once again highlights the performance of Australia’s neighbourhood centres – retail hubs with a GLA...

It was a long road back after COVID, but now CBD retail in Australia has regained its power! Unsurprisingly, Scentre...

We launched this feature last year; the result of requests we received from our members – retailers, fund-managers, suppliers to...

Six Big Gun centres achieved an annual turnover (MAT) in excess of $1.0 billion in 2022. As 2023 arrived, another...

Another great year for Little Guns! That statement is a bit like a broken record – same every year! Looking...

Our annual Mini Guns report ranks the performances of retail centres across Australia with a gross lettable area (GLA) from...

What a year for CBD Guns! Increases in all tables in the double digit regions; rises in the 20 to...

For a few years now, we’ve had numerous requests for our ‘Guns’ issues to feature New Zealand centres. COVID came...

What a year for the shopping centre industry and what a year for Big Guns! We list 93 centres this...

What a year for Little Guns! Last year, an MAT of $300 million got you into the Top 10; this...

Mini Guns have a lot to teach us because they are close to the people. Roughly speaking, there are about...

“Lies, damn lies and statistics” ; a line often attributed to Mark Twain; it has significant relativity to this year’s...

In 2008, Chadstone became the first regional shopping centre in Australia (and one of the first in the world) to...

COVID continued to affect some centres well into the reporting year for Little Guns (1st October to 30th September), so it’s...

During the past two years, due to the pandemic, ‘figures’ and ‘rankings’ of retail sales had little relevance to performance....

Our CBDs in the main have been ravaged by COVID; some more than others, but it makes any form of...

Exactly 30 years ago, in March 1992, SCN published its first ‘Big Gun’ issue. 50 centres were featured – the...

As lockdowns ease across the country and as the public, in general, begins to return to some sort of new...

Some 130 odd centres submitted sales figures this year; not all Mini Gun centres are listed as some companies, understandably,...

COVID-19 has made MAT and other turnover statistics invalid – in terms of any comparative formats. The fact is they’ve...

This year, we depart from the usual. The Big Guns issue is always ‘pounced upon’ as it’s published. Which centres...

Belmont Forum retains its Number 1 place on the MAT (Moving Annual Turnover) ladder with a creditable $386 million, a...

We report Mini Gun figures for the year. That in itself is somewhat remarkable! If we had said something along...

The usual 12-month reporting period for SCN‘s annual CBD Guns runs from 1 April to 31 March. This year, we...

92 Centres are featured this year, of those, 11 were under redevelopment or have only traded fully for part of the...

Another great year for Little Guns. We feature 94 centres this year in comparison to 96 last year. Six centres,...

We started reporting on Mini Gun centres in 2006. It was a sector of our industry dominated by Centro Properties...

An expanding segment; a few years ago (2014 to be precise) we started the CBD Guns feature with 15 centres;...

I know it gets repetitive but it’s another great year for Big Guns. First up mention has to be Chadstone....