High Street - Investors

With high loan to value ratios forcing ‘fire sales’ and schemes in the hands of administrators, there are many quality assets currently available for investment. But with high vacancy rates and a struggling occupier market, do potential acquisition opportunities represent good value? what is required to unlock asset potential? and how do you turn strategic ambitions into value growth?.

FSP has guided investors through the best and the worst of property markets for over 30 years. FSP advise 17 of the top 30 UK retail portfolios, including Legal & General, Aviva, Hermes and Prupim and has recently played an active role in appraising acquisition/investment opportunities for Area Property Partners, F&C Reit, Praxis Holdings, Prupim and Deutche Bank. Specific sites include Land of the Prince Bishops Shopping Centre (Durham), Trinity Shopping Centre (Wakefield), Shopping City (Salford), Clacton Factory Outlet and The Junction portfolio (comprising 11 retail parks).

It is often said that ‘retail is detail’ and as former senior retail managers, FSP probe corporate accounts for key indicators of financial well being, conduct shop by shop audits to quantify trading risk and rental sustainability, analyse retail provision to identify opportunities to grow shopper value and work along side asset managers to create effective leasing strategies and ensure that the trading benefits are correctly presented to target occupiers.

Through careful assessment and the application of FSP’s expert retail knowledge, it is possible to separate the most successful investments opportunities from the under performers and to turn average assets into stars. FSP’s consultancy advice therefore starts with investment strategy and pre –acquisition assessment and extends through asset strategy to leasing support. By working closely with investors and asset managers, FSP’s advice is at its most effective and if a pragmatic risk management focus is adopted, strategies will naturally optimise prospects for growth and allow investments to out-perform benchmarks.

Pre-Acquisition | Asset Strategy |Impact

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