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Conference Call: Superstore Portfolio
                      Tuesday, 8 December 2009

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Agenda

• UK Grocery Market                         Bryan Lewis

                                            Asset Manager for Superstores
• British Land’s Superstore portfolio

• Performance
                                            Darren Richards

• Activity                                  Retail Investment

• Investment market

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The UK Grocery Market

   • UK Grocery market sales £146bn pa, of which £106bn (72%) from large format grocery stores1

           Convenience
          retailing (£30bn)
                                                                  Large Format Grocery Retailing             Total Sales

                                                                  Multiples (Tesco, Sainsbury’s,
                                                                                                                 £93.0bn
                                                                  Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose)
  Traditional                                           Large
retailing (£7bn)                                       Format     Co-op                                            £6.5bn
Non-store/Home                                        Grocery
 retailing (£3bn)                                     Retailing
                                                      (£106bn)    Discounters (e.g. Aldi, Lidl)                    £5.9bn

                                                                  Independents                                     £0.6bn

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Examples of our Superstore Portfolio

      Sainsbury’s, Swansea (90,000 sq ft)             Tesco, Formby (60,000 sq ft)

•   550 car spaces                          •   400 car spaces
•   Extended in 1998 & 2003                 •   Extended in 2004
•   Rental value £18.50 psf                 •   Rental value £22.00 psf
•   Let to Sainsbury’s until 2024           •   Let to Tesco until 2030

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British Land’s Superstore Portfolio

• Largest owner of Superstores, other than                                        Superstores represent 16% of total
                                                                                  portfolio – 24% of Retail portfolio1
  the operators themselves

                                                                                                                          City offices
• 101 superstores totalling 6.1m sq ft                                          Retail                                       (20%)
    – of which 44 Sainsbury’s & 35 Tesco                                      Warehouses
                                                                                (27%)

• £2.1bn portfolio (BL Share £1.1bn)

• 5.75% net initial yield                                                                                                            West End
                                                                                                                                      offices
                                                                                                                                      (11%)
• 100% let; average lease length 17.6 years
                                                                                                                                 Other (3%)
• Average rent £20 psf (ERV: £21 psf)                                                                                     Department
                                                                           Superstores                                    stores (6%)
                                                                              (16%)                                  Europe (5%)
• Food retailers represent 18% of total rent
    – of which 14% Tesco & Sainsbury’s                                                            Shopping
                                                                                                 Centres (12%)

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Partnerships with the Retailers

                                                                                              Superstore Joint Ventures
• Majority (88%) of portfolio held in JV
                                                                                                 Number of    Value     Rent                     Lease
                                                                                                 Properties    £m1    £m pa1

• Closer relationships with the retailers to                                BLT properties               9     138             8
                                                                                                                                   5-yr upward only
                                                                                                                                   rent review
   maximise properties and drive footfall
                                                                                                                                   5-yr upward only
                                                                            Tesco British Land           1     249           17
                                                                                                                                   rent review

• 77% of portfolio subject to 5-year upward                                                                                        5-yr upward only
                                                                            Tesco BL                     9      47             3
                                                                                                                                   rent review
   only rent review
                                                                            Tesco Aqua                  21     269           15 Annual RPI

• 23% of portfolio based on annual RPI
                                                                            BL Sainsbury                                           5-yr upward only
                                                                                                        39     516           32
   within range of 0 - 3.5% pa                                              Superstores Ltd                                        rent review

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Portfolio Performance
                         4.7% pa Rental Value Growth in BL’s Superstores                                      BL’s Superstores Total Property Return 9.6% pa
                            over last 10 years vs. IPD All Retail 2.6% pa                                         over 10 years vs. IPD All Retail 5.6% pa

                             6                                                                                 10

                             4                                                                                  5

                                                                               Total Property Return (% pa)
Rental Value Growth (% pa)

                             2                                                                                  0

                             0                                                                                 -5

                             -2                                                                               -10

                             -4                                                                               -15

                             -6                                                                               -20
                                  6 mths    1 yr    3 yrs   5 yrs     10 yrs                                        6 mths   1 yr    3 yrs          5 yrs        10 yrs
                                       BL Superstores       IPD All Retail                                              BL Superstores             IPD All Retail

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Expansion of Grocers

• Retailers looking to increase floorspace for non-food items (e.g. clothing, entertainment, banking)

 Retailers’ store opening plans:

 Tesco           Completed 87 new stores and is on track to re-fit/develop c.2m sq ft by this year

 Asda            Scheduled to open 20 new sites this year

 Sainsbury’s     50 new stores to open by mid-2011. Also extending existing stores

 Morrisons       Opened 12 stores in 2009. Further 1m sq ft of openings planned in the South of England

 Waitrose        To continue to add 8-10 large format outlets each year. Potential for 300 convenience stores over 5-10 years

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Sustainable Income

• Highest UK food store rents                                 Food Retailers’ Store Sales1
        – M&S Food, Kings Road (£40.00 psf)                   Stores    Sales       Net     Supermarket Change
                                                                         Area      Sales     Sales (£bn) 2008 vs.
        – Tesco, Bishopsgate (£37.50 psf)                              (m sq ft)   (£bn)                  2007
        – Sainsbury’s, Islington (£31.50 psf)
                                                Tesco          674       18.4       38              23             +8.4%
        – Tesco, Peterborough (£28.50 psf)
                                                Asda           311       13.9       19              16             +5.5%
• BL portfolio average rent £20 psf
                                                Sainsbury’s    495       14.3       19              16             +5.9%

• In general, rent c.3-4% of turnover           Morrisons      382       11.1       15              14            +12.8%
   - equivalent to 2 weeks total sales
                                                Waitrose       193       3.5        4                4             +5.5%

• However, rent reviews assessed on supply
                                                Co-op          627       4.6        5                2             +2.0%
   and demand instead of turnover

1 IGD                                                                                    Conference Call: Superstore Portfolio
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Rent Review Case Study – Sainsbury’s, Islington

     Sainsbury’s, Islington (67,000 sq ft)

• Dominant store within 10 minutes drive time
• 170,000 people within 10 minutes of store
• Mixed affluence profile, heavily skewed towards
  young singles with no children

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Active Property Management

• Over last 5 years, settled 72 rent reviews at average            Rent Review Performance
   17% above previous rent                                 12 months to   Number      Sq ft       BL increase1
                                                           30 September                ‘000       £m pa             %

                                                           2005               20     1,395             3.3         16
• Funded 800,000 sq ft of extensions at 7% yield

                                                           2006               27     1,253             2.1           9
• Currently evaluating funding further 165,000 sq ft of
                                                           2007                9        446            1.3         20
   extensions to existing portfolio expected to be built
   out over next 2 years                                   2008               11        562            1.4         23

                                                           2009                5        333            0.5         16
• 4 Tesco JVs and 1 Sainsbury’s
       – JV structure allows for greater co-operation      Total              72     3,989             8.6         17
           and success

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Attractive Long-term Fundamentals

• Market share                                            UK Grocery Market Shares1
        – UK grocery accounts for 51% of total                             Other (13%)
                                                 Tesco
         retail spend1                           (31%)
                                                                                         Waitrose (4%)

                                                                                                 Co-op/
• Rental growth and affordability                                                              Somerfield
                                                                                                  (8%)

• Covenant strength
                                                                                              Morrisons
                                                                                               (11%)

• Long lease expiry profiles
                                                  Asda
                                                  (17%)
                                                                            Sainsbury’s
                                                                               (16%)
• Restrictive planning environment

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Investment Market

                                                               Recent Transactions
• Strong investment demand based on
                                                                           Lease         NIY        Price       Bids
 fundamentals                                                              length

                                               Waitrose, Cheadle Hulme     25 yrs       4.6%       £15m           14
• Restricted supply
                                               Waitrose, West Byfleet      18 yrs       5.1%       £10m           22

• Yields have compressed as a result
                                               Waitrose, Colchester        20 yrs       4.5%       £15m            5

• Lease types (RPI vs. Open Market) an issue   Sainsbury’s, Cheltenham
                                                                           25 yrs       5.0%       £50m            4
                                               (Under Offer)

                                               Sainsbury’s, Macclesfield
• Risk fundamentals overlooked                                             30 yrs       5.0%       £32m          n/a
                                               (Under Offer)

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Summary

• Superstores a major part of BL’s portfolio

• Delivered excellent historic returns relative
 to the market

• Strong underlying business model and
 attractive long-term fundamentals
 continue to apply

• Good prospects for future performance

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