Emma Barnstable
Trainee Surveyor
Global Headquarters, GB
Emma has also delivered bespoke consultancy projects, including town centre health checks and location strategy for international retailers entering the UK market. Her thought leadership has featured in many of Knight Frank’s flagship reports, including 'Foodstores: A Feeding Frenzy' and 'Retail Renaissance', contributing new research on emerging themes such as ESG and AI.
Having progressed from Analyst to Associate within the research team, Emma is now a Graduate as she undertakes her commercial APC.
Latest research
Retail & Leisure
Tenants in waiting?
What the UK’s fastest-growing firms reveal about future retail demand
06 August 2025
Retail & Leisure
Annual UK Retail Sales Dashboard
An annual overview of UK retail sales performance, including key metrics on core sub-sectors, and ecommerce
17 January 2025
ESG
Retail and ESG in 2025: bigger fish to fry?
Are ESG themes set to take a backseat in 2025, or will they become more crucial than ever?
06 January 2025
Retail & Leisure
Curation Over Cookie-Cutting: Re-inventing London’s Retail Floorspace Case Study
‘The Battersea shop will be pride of place, a wonderful, sociable ‘third space’ …. Part installation, part gallery, part museum but full of inspiration you can take home.’
14 June 2023
Offices
The office: an engine of modern society
For decades, the office has been the bedrock of many communities and more than just a place to work. In a post-pandemic world, how will the workplace influence our lives?
17 May 2023
ESG
Clean, Healthy and Green
Sustainability will be a principal objective for organisations in 2022, with tighter regulations and reporting meaning more measurement, more management, and a shift in real estate focus. But, what will be the impact on office markets across the UK Cities?
24 January 2023
Build-to-rent and Multifamily
Retrofit or Rebuild? M&S and the battle to greenify retail property
M&S’ proposals to overhaul its tired 1930’s Marble Arch flagship have been called in by the government for environmental review, despite the scheme targeting top-tier sustainability accreditations. Opponents have criticised the decision to rebuild rather than retrofit, fuelling feverish and contentious debate over how ageing retail stock should be modernised.
17 November 2022
Retail & Leisure
Exploring retail's greenest assets
How green is retail property? What types of stores have the best green credentials? And which operators and geographies are leading the green charge?
27 September 2022
Retail & Leisure
Pop-up shops - driving retail’s ESG agenda?
Pop-ups shops are regularly cited as a solution to high vacancy - but could they actually, by the law of unintended consequences, be the answer to retail’s looming ESG crisis? We explore the environmental, social, and governance benefits the format provides…
30 August 2022
Retail & Leisure
ESG & Retail: exploring retail’s greenest assets
With Environmental, Social, and Governance issues increasingly grabbing the attention of property investors, we take a deep dive into the BREEAM data on the ‘E’ side of things to explore retail’s green building landscape.
03 December 2021
ESG
Reconciling cost with conscience: what does ESG mean for the Retail Property sector?
As ESG rises up the agenda, we explore which Environmental, Social, and Governance issues are relevant to the sector.
24 March 2021
