Shopping Center REITs Report Signs of Improvement, but Expect More Store Closings

Published Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Shopping center REITs turned in a respectable performance for the fourth quarter of 2009, giving credence to the notion that the worst of the downturn may be over. Yet REIT analysts continue to be cautious about the sector’s prospects for 2010, as the year may bring more closings among smaller shopping center tenants and make re-leasing vacant space difficult. For the three months ended Dec. 31, 2009, two shopping center REITs beat consensus analyst estimates, two were on target and five missed. The outperformers included Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) and Federal Realty Investment ...

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