Financial Statements
19Leasing
Operating leases with tenants
The Group leases out all of its investment properties under operating leases with a weighted average lease length of 13 years. The future aggregate minimum rentals receivable under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:
| 2009 £m |
2008 £m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Less than one year | 382 | 538 |
| Between two and five years | 1,508 | 2,092 |
| Between six and ten years | 1,552 | 2,199 |
| Between eleven and fifteen years | 850 | 1,629 |
| Between sixteen and twenty years | 470 | 788 |
| After twenty years | 730 | 1,140 |
| 5,492 | 8,386 | |
Contingent rents of £3m (2008: £1m) were recognised in the year.
The Group's leasehold investment properties are typically under non-renewable leases without significant restrictions. Finance lease liabilities are payable as follows, no contingent rents are payable in either period:
| 2009 | 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum lease payments £m |
Interest £m |
Principal £m |
Minimum lease payments £m |
Interest £m |
Principal £m |
||
| British Land Group | |||||||
| Less than one year | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Between one and two years | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Between two and five years | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||
| More than five years | 108 | 94 | 14 | 220 | 186 | 34 | |
| 113 | 99 | 14 | 232 | 197 | 35 | ||