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DIRECT MARKET REPORT GERMAN RETAIL - Europe Real Estate

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Exhibit 20 Indexed space development and productivity per unit area<br />

Source: Federal Statistical Office<br />

Large scale centres in Germany are becoming increasingly important for the retail<br />

landscape, just like factory outlet, leisure and entertainment centres, station and<br />

airport shopping centres and city centre shopping malls.<br />

Exhibit 21 Development of shopping centres (>10,000m2 rentable area) in Germany<br />

Source: EHI Retail Institute<br />

However, foreign investors are not interested in the entire spectrum of properties,<br />

but only in properties already traded on the investment market, mainly shopping<br />

centres and other retail warehouse formats. Precisely in this segment Germany<br />

still appears undersupplied. The reason why international investors are highly<br />

interested in German retail is threefold:<br />

• undersupply of shopping centres and retail parks<br />

• average yield levels and -gap for German retail<br />

• ongoing sustainable economic growth expected.<br />

Most favourite locations are cities that have more than 70,000 inhabitants;<br />

between 2001 and 2006 2/3rd of the newly developed centres were built in such<br />

large conglomerates. Smaller cities up to 20,000 residents and eastern German<br />

cities are regarded as unpopular.<br />

German retail update - 28/11/2007 23

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