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Exhibit 18 Existing shopping centres space in square meters per 1,000 inhabitants<br />

Source: DEGI Research<br />

Given the uptake in retail sales, area productivities will stabilize after years of<br />

persistent decline and despite the fact that total sales areas are expanding. This<br />

trend is having a positive effect on the commercial properties market, as area<br />

productivity is relevant for the sustainability of rents. However, looking at the<br />

longer term; by 2010 a further 6 million square retail space will have been<br />

created.<br />

Exhibit 19 Provision and potential for retail-surface per 1,000 inhabitant per county<br />

Niedersachsen<br />

Rheinland-Pf.<br />

Baden-Wb.<br />

Saarland<br />

Nordrhein-W.<br />

Bayern<br />

Hessen<br />

Schleswig-H.<br />

Thüringen<br />

Hamburg<br />

Berlin<br />

Mecklenb-Vorp<br />

Sachsen<br />

Sachsen-Anhalt<br />

Bremen<br />

Brandenburg<br />

25.0 75.0 125.0 175.0 225.0 275.0 325.0<br />

total 2010 2006<br />

Source: EHI, <strong>Real</strong>institut, Wegweiser Demographischer Wandel (WDW)<br />

This again will on the long term result in a decline in productivity per unit area as<br />

retail turnover is developing in a slower pace than supply. For Eastern Germany<br />

much is dependent on the continuation of the “Aufbauprogramm Ost” program,<br />

the economic development program for Eastern Germany.<br />

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