Retail investment: sales momentum versus tenant demand
Retail buying and retail trading are different decisions. A purchaser needs evidence that the premises can serve an occupier at a sustainable cost.
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Retail buying and retail trading are different decisions. A purchaser needs evidence that the premises can serve an occupier at a sustainable cost.
Test the tenant case
Identify the likely business activity before assuming a rent. Inspect frontage, visibility, loading, parking and the physical work needed to open. A shop that looks attractive on a floor plan may still require expensive adaptation.
Compare like with like
Separate completed units with operating tenants from launch-stage space in a future catchment. Request the lease, unit documents and itemised ownership costs. Treat advertised returns as assumptions until the supporting income and expenditure can be examined.