Marketing Your Shopping Centre to Attract New Tenants and Sales

When it comes to retail shopping centre property performance, it is critical to optimise the tenancy mix and reduce the threat of vacancy. This means that you must market your shopping centre to new and potential tenants in the local area.

The landlord wants a stable cash flow and a lower vacancy profile. The marketing process for the property works well when you systemise the process of property marketing and set some performance indicators that you believe you should or can target.

Marketing to new and potential tenants can incorporate the following strategies:

    Selectively approach other tenants in competing properties and around the local area. Give them details of your shopping centre together with contact information should they wish to discuss leasing in the future. If you have any vacancies at the moment or coming up soon, then this information upcoming vacancy information can be provided to them by direct mail or e-mail each a few months.

    Keep in contact with the franchise groups and organisations that may be seeking alternative premises or premises in which they can expand the network. They will typically have a tenancy profile that suits their business needs. When contacting these groups for the first time, get a briefing on the ideal tenancy profile that they require.

    Within your tenancy mix you will have a number of tenants that are regarded as critical to the future of the property. These quality tenants should be encouraged to remain in occupancy by giving them the special offers of lease prior to the expiry of their existing lease documentation.

    If your property has anchor tenants around which the specialty tenants trade, ensure that the anchor tenants are suitably stable for the long term. Typically the lease for an anchor tenant will be for a longer lease period of 10 or 20 years. They may also have options for ongoing occupancy. Importantly all these dates must be checked and attractive so that the suitable early negotiation can occur if and when the time arises.

    Every retail shopping centre should encourage involvement with the local, community, charities, clubs and organisations. The mall or common area in the shopping centre can be adapted to community displays and stalls to encourage better customer visitation and sales

    The existing tenants within the shopping centre should be supported in their occupancy during the term of the lease. If they feel that the property is being poorly managed or neglected, it is likely that they will spread the word to the greater retail community surrounding; they are also likely to deter new tenants from occupation.

These simple facts are simple marketing ways to keep the property in line with the expectations of the tenants, customers, and landlord. A successful property will be achieved when this balance is maintained and optimised within a business plan of property performance.

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John Highman is an experienced Commercial Real Estate Agent, International Speaker, and Sales Coach.

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Large markets suffer as commercial vacancy rises in Canada

Office space vacancy rates in Canada are expected to rise to 10 per cent by year-end 2010, but there will eventually be a strong recovery in commercial real estate, said Avison Young in its annual report.

"Opinion remains divided on the question of whether Canada's economy will see the beginning of a sustainable recovery in 2010, or whether a further correction is to come before things start to look up," said Bill Argeropoulos, Avison Young's VP and director of research in Canada.

But he says Canada still remains in better shape than the U.S., and many others around the world, and "is poised for a more rapid recovery," particularly in the retail sector.

The downside of the report was the prediction that the national office space vacancy rate will likely rise by one per cent in 2010. Two of the country's strongest markets -- Calgary and Toronto -- have been hit the hardest, both with vacancy rates already just above 10 per cent. This has largely been due to new supply hitting the market, said the report.

Things could get even worse in Calgary, where office space vacancies are predicted to reach as high as 18 per cent by 2012, according to Avison Young. In Vancouver, the rate is expected to rise three percentage points higher than a year ago to reach eight per cent.

Source: www.mortgagebrokernews.ca

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