Pre-Acquisition Survey

Before acquiring a new shopping centre, many owners want to know more about its market and competitors, how it is performing in terms of sales, market share, afforbale rent analysis to determine if retailers can afford the rents they are paying and the scale of any potential for improvement.

FSP have developed fast cost-effective ways of carrying out this analysis and have worked on a number of pre-acquisition projects. Project duration is normally to report in 10 - 14 days.

The process gives part of the input potential shopping centre buyers need to understand the scale of change and flow of benefits that might be feasible.

In a number of cases it has identified trading problems and performance shortfalls leading to purchase rejection.